Aerospace Engineering BSc

University of Manchester · honours · 4 years · foundation year · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 9516, 7744course page ↗

Students are accepted from a wide range of educational backgrounds and all appli at A level; graduates earn a median £33,000 three years on.

Typical A level offer
Students are accepted from a wide range of educational backgrounds and all appli

95% of entrants came with A levels · 70% stay on after year 1 · Manchester course page, Discover Uni

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

Students are accepted from a wide range of educational backgrounds and all applitypical A level offer

Typical offer — the grades most applicants are asked for. Contextual offer: Find out more about contextual admissions, for applicants from under-represented backgrounds.

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

Who actually got in: 95% with A levels, 5% with the IB. Based on 35 entrants.
Other qualifications1
QualificationTypical offerRequired subjects
IB32 pointswith 5,5,5 in Higher Level subjects, including Mathematics (either ‘Analysis and Approaches’ or ‘Applications and Interpretation’ are acceptable) or Physics
Years 1–4

What do you study?

22compulsory modules in foundation year

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.

Manchester course page · optional modules vary by year

After graduating

Where does it lead?

£33,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£28k
Median£33k
Upper quarter£41k

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 460 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, 12, 22

Half of graduates earned between £28,000 and £40,500. Five years on, the median is £41,000. 90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 85% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 130% left70%35
In work or study, 15 months on15% studying90%50
Professional or managerial job85%35
Pay 15 months on, median£33,000115
Pay 3 years on, median£33,000460
Pay 5 years on, median£41,000475
Money

What does it cost?

£9,790a year for UK students, 2026/27 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.

Manchester fees page · source

About £39,160 in fees over 4 years, covered by a tuition fee loan you repay only when earning above the threshold. International students: £26,300 a year (2026/27).

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

92%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 60% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 55 students answered

Highest: 92% agreed on question 4; lowest: 64% 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 Manchester’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 Manchester is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.