Sociology/Politics MA(SocSci)

University of Glasgow · honours · 4 years · optional year abroad · UCAS 2223course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £25,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£25,500

median, based on 290 graduates · half earned £20,000–£32,500 · 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: 62% with A levels, 1% with the IB, 19% via Access courses, 9% with other higher education. 47% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 145 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?

£25,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£20k
Median£26k
Upper quarter£33k

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 290 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 11, 12, 21

Half of graduates earned between £20,000 and £32,500. Five years on, the median is £32,500. 80% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 30% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 18% left92%125
In work or study, 15 months on0% studying80%40
Professional or managerial job30%30
Pay 15 months on, median£30,00075
Pay 3 years on, median£25,500290
Pay 5 years on, median£32,500310
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?

74%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 66% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 115 students answered

Highest: 94% agreed on question 20; lowest: 57% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
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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.