Software Engineering with Work Placement MSci

University of Glasgow · honours · 5 years · placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 3737course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £33,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£33,500

median, based on 85 graduates · half earned £26,500–£44,500 · 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: 80% with A levels, 10% with other higher education. 25% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 10 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?

£33,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£27k
Median£34k
Upper quarter£45k

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 85 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 12, 14, 24, 22, 13

Half of graduates earned between £26,500 and £44,500. Five years on, the median is £46,000. 90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 85% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 10% left100%10
In work or study, 15 months on7% studying90%70
Professional or managerial job85%50
Pay 15 months on, median£35,00035
Pay 3 years on, median£33,50085
Pay 5 years on, median£46,00080
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?

69%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 75% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 35 students answered

Highest: 88% agreed on question 15; lowest: 33% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 187%
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Question 470%
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Question 767%
Question 887%
Question 974%
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Question 1433%
Question 1588%
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Question 1863%
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Question 2187%
Question 2280%
Question 2380%
Question 2467%
Question 2571%
Question 2669%

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.