Geography BSc

University of Glasgow · honours · 4 years · optional year abroad · UCAS 0356course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £25,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£25,000

median, based on 150 graduates · half earned £19,500–£28,500 · Discover Uni (LEO)

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

Entry requirements for this course are not yet on file; see the university’s course page.

Glasgow course page, read 19 September 2026 · Discover Uni entry profile

Who actually got in: 85% with A levels, 1% with the IB, 12% via Access courses. 40% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 70 entrants.

UCAS tariff points — a points scale for grades: A* = 56, A = 48, so A*A*A = 160. Entrants’ totals include extra subjects.

After graduating

Where does it lead?

£25,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£20k
Median£25k
Upper quarter£29k

Median — the middle earner: half earned more, half less. Pay is for graduates of this subject at this university who finished in 2016-18, not adjusted for inflation; based on 150 graduates.

Discover Uni dataset (HESA and Office for Students, CC BY 4.0, contains HESA data); earnings from the Longitudinal Education Outcomes data (Department for Education) · aggregation level 14, 12, 22

Half of graduates earned between £19,500 and £28,500. Five years on, the median is £31,000. 85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 70% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 115% left85%50
In work or study, 15 months on10% studying85%20
Professional or managerial job70%15
Pay 15 months on, median£28,00035
Pay 3 years on, median£25,000150
Pay 5 years on, median£31,000165
Money

What does it cost?

Fees not on file; see the university’s fees page.

Glasgow fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

91%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 55% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 25 students answered

Highest: 96% agreed on question 6; lowest: 39% on question 17.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 191%
Question 278%
Question 387%
Question 491%
Question 587%
Question 696%
Question 778%
Question 874%
Question 978%
Question 1061%
Question 1170%
Question 1278%
Question 1348%
Question 1461%
Question 1578%
Question 1687%
Question 1739%
Question 1878%
Question 1991%
Question 2095%
Question 2177%
Question 2295%
Question 2386%
Question 2455%
Question 2586%
Question 2691%

Question texts are published by the Office for Students; the dataset carries only the question numbers.

Modules, entry requirements and fees are facts read from University of Glasgow’s course page on 2026-09-19 and may change; the university’s page is authoritative. Descriptions are not reproduced. Outcome figures are from the Discover Uni dataset. University of Glasgow is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.