Accounting and Finance BSc

University of Leeds · honours · 3 years · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 5455, 9842, 6335course page ↗

AAA at A level; graduates earn a median £35,000 three years on.

Typical A level offer
AAA

93% of entrants came with A levels · 81% stay on after year 1 · Leeds course page, Discover Uni

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

AAAtypical 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: 93% with A levels, 1% with the IB, 1% via Access courses, 5% with other higher education. 2% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 100 entrants.

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

Other qualifications5
QualificationTypical offerRequired subjects
AccessDistinctionA minimum of 30 Level 3 credits must be awarded at Distinction and 15 at Merit—
BTECDistinction* Distinction DistinctionApplicants declaring a BTEC National Extended Diploma in Business or Enterprise and Entrepreneurship or Marketing must achieve Distinction* Distinction Distinction (an A-level is not required)—
IB35 pointswith 17 points from Higher Level subjects. Plus Mathematics can be met via a 5 at Standard Level or a 4 at Higher Level. English Language can be met via a 5 at Standard Level or Higher Level English A
Advanced HighersAAAAAAsix Highers at AAAAAA—
T LevelDistinctionAn overall Distinction with grade A in the Core Component must be achieved—
Years 1–3

What do you study?

6compulsory modules in year 1, 2 optional

Module — one course unit, usually a term or a year long; “core” means everyone takes it. One UK credit is about ten hours of study; a full year is 120 credits.

Leeds course page · optional modules vary by year

Year 2 · 5 core, 20 optional · 80 credits ≈ 800 hours
Year 3 · 1 core, 29 optional · 20 credits ≈ 200 hours
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£35,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£27k
Median£35k
Upper quarter£42k

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 50 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 23, 14

Half of graduates earned between £26,500 and £42,000. Five years on, the median is £49,000. 94% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 82% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 117% left81%95
In work or study, 15 months on1% studying94%80
Professional or managerial job82%70
Pay 15 months on, median£33,00040
Pay 3 years on, median£35,00050
Pay 5 years on, median£49,00070
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: £31,300 a year (2027/28).

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; 63% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 60 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 83% on question 2.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 283%
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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 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.