Civil Engineering BEng

University of Glasgow · honours · 4 years · optional year abroad · UCAS 3024course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £30,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£30,000

median, based on 35 graduates · half earned £26,500–£32,000 · 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: 75% with A levels, 5% with the IB, 20% via Access courses. 65% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 25 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?

£30,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£27k
Median£30k
Upper quarter£32k

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 35 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 13, 14, 24, 23

Half of graduates earned between £26,500 and £32,000. Five years on, the median is £36,500. 90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 100% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left95%25
In work or study, 15 months on5% studying90%30
Professional or managerial job100%25
Pay 15 months on, median£31,00020
Pay 3 years on, median£30,00035
Pay 5 years on, median£36,50035
Money

What does it cost?

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

Glasgow fees page

National Student Survey 2024-26

What do students say?

83%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 68% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 15 students answered

Highest: 92% agreed on question 9; lowest: 38% on question 13.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 177%
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Question 677%
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Question 1577%
Question 1669%
Question 1792%
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Question 1992%
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Question 2177%
Question 2267%
Question 2362%
Question 2454%
Question 2567%
Question 2683%

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.