Sociology and Modern Languages BA

University of Manchester · honours · 4 years · optional placement year · year abroad · UCAS 8430course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £27,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£27,000

median, based on 820 graduates · half earned £22,000–£36,000 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 92% with A levels, 2% with the IB, 1% via Access courses. 3% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 285 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?

£27,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£22k
Median£27k
Upper quarter£36k

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 820 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, 13, 21

Half of graduates earned between £22,000 and £36,000. Five years on, the median is £35,500. 85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 59% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 16% left93%245
In work or study, 15 months on6% studying85%465
Professional or managerial job59%330
Pay 15 months on, median£28,000220
Pay 3 years on, median£27,000820
Pay 5 years on, median£35,500855
Money

What does it cost?

Fees not on file; see the university’s fees page.

Manchester fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

77%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 76% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 225 students answered

Highest: 93% agreed on question 1; lowest: 63% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
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Question 2463%
Question 2579%
Question 2677%

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.