Music and Music Technology BA

University of Leeds · honours · 3 years · optional year abroad · UCAS 1304, 9594, 3828course page ↗

ABB at A level; graduates earn a median £21,500 three years on.

Typical A level offer
ABB

95% of entrants came with A levels · 91% 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: 95% with A levels, 5% with other higher education. 15% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 30 entrants.

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

Other qualifications3
QualificationTypical offerRequired subjects
AccessDistinction60 credits overall, with at least 45 credits at level 3 to include 30 credits at Distinction and 15 at Merit—
BTECDDM—
Advanced HighersAAABBB in Advanced Highers and AAABB in Highers, or AABBBB in Highers—
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£21,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£18k
Median£22k
Upper quarter£27k

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 70 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, 23

Half of graduates earned between £18,000 and £27,000. Five years on, the median is £27,500. 95% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 60% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 19% left91%70
In work or study, 15 months on5% studying95%20
Professional or managerial job60%15
Pay 15 months on, median£29,00015
Pay 3 years on, median£21,50070
Pay 5 years on, median£27,50070
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: £29,600 a year (2027/28).

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

80%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 73% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 65 students answered

Highest: 98% agreed on question 15; lowest: 55% on question 9.

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 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.