Modern Languages BA

University of Manchester · honours · 4 years · optional placement year · year abroad · UCAS 3348course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £26,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£26,000

median, based on 305 graduates · half earned £21,000–£30,500 · 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: 90% with A levels, 5% with the IB. 30% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 20 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?

£26,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£21k
Median£26k
Upper quarter£31k

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 305 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 22, 23, 13

Half of graduates earned between £21,000 and £30,500. Five years on, the median is £32,000. 81% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 54% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left95%20
In work or study, 15 months on8% studying81%215
Professional or managerial job54%150
Pay 15 months on, median£27,00085
Pay 3 years on, median£26,000305
Pay 5 years on, median£32,000330
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?

82%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 83% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 45 students answered

Highest: 97% agreed on question 9; lowest: 56% on question 12.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
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Question 1074%
Question 1183%
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Question 1590%
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Question 1774%
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Question 1991%
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Question 2285%
Question 2365%
Question 2465%
Question 2587%
Question 2682%

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.