Fine Art with Contemporary Cultural Theory BA

University of Leeds · honours · 3 years · optional year abroad · UCAS 9079, 2635, 4478course page ↗

ABB at A level; graduates earn a median £25,000 three years on.

Typical A level offer
ABB

100% of entrants came with A levels · 100% stay on after year 1 · Leeds course page, Discover Uni

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

ABBtypical A level offer

Typical offer — the grades most applicants are asked for. A contextual offer can be lower for applicants from under-represented backgrounds; none is published for this course.

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

Who actually got in: 100% with A levels. 30% 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.

Other qualifications4
QualificationTypical offerRequired subjects
AccessDistinctionPass with 60 credits overall including 45 credits at Level 3, of which 30 credits must be at Distinction and 15 must be at Merit level—
BTECDDM—
IB34 pointsincluding 16 at Higher Level with 4 in English
Advanced HighersBBin Advanced Highers and AABBB in Highers OR B in Advanced Highers and AAABB in Highers OR AABBBB in Highers
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£25,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£21k
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 225 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 24, 14, 22

Half of graduates earned between £20,500 and £29,000. Five years on, the median is £29,000.

All outcome figures4
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 10% left100%15
Pay 3 years on, median£25,000225
Pay 5 years on, median£29,000240
Money

What does it cost?

£10,050a year for UK students, 2027/28 entry

Tuition fee loan — paid straight to the university; repayments start the April after you leave, at 9% of income above the threshold. UK fees are capped by government and rise with inflation; placement and study-abroad years are usually charged at a lower rate.

Leeds fees page · source

About £30,150 in fees over 3 years, covered by a tuition fee loan you repay only when earning above the threshold. International students: £27,300 a year (2027/28).

National Student Survey 2024-26

What do students say?

67%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 71% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 10 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 12; lowest: 50% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 190%
Question 290%
Question 390%
Question 460%
Question 590%
Question 670%
Question 780%
Question 850%
Question 980%
Question 1050%
Question 1190%
Question 12100%
Question 1360%
Question 1470%
Question 1590%
Question 1670%
Question 1780%
Question 1890%
Question 1980%
Question 20100%
Question 2160%
Question 2280%
Question 2380%
Question 2450%
Question 2570%
Question 2667%

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 Leeds’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 Leeds is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.