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AAA at A level; graduates earn a median £47,500 three years on.

Typical A level offer
AAA

89% of entrants came with A levels · 99% stay on after year 1 · Newcastle course page, Discover Uni

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

AAAtypical A level offer; 2027 entry, from meta tags; required subjects not in html (widget filled by bundle.course-ug-min.js)

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.

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

Who actually got in: 89% with A levels, 4% with other higher education. 8% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 75 entrants.

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

Other qualifications1
QualificationTypical offerRequired subjects
IB36 points2027 entry, from meta tags; required subjects not in HTML (widget filled by bundle.course-ug-min.js)—
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£47,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£42k
Median£48k
Upper quarter£54k

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 345 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 14, 22

Half of graduates earned between £41,500 and £54,000. Five years on, the median is £52,500.

All outcome figures4
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 11% left99%75
Pay 3 years on, median£47,500345
Pay 5 years on, median£52,500390
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.

Newcastle fees page · source

About £50,250 in fees over 5 years, covered by a tuition fee loan you repay only when earning above the threshold. International students: £49,000 a year (2027/28).

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

94%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 96% 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: 99% agreed on question 4; lowest: 79% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 197%
Question 293%
Question 394%
Question 499%
Question 593%
Question 696%
Question 792%
Question 891%
Question 999%
Question 1079%
Question 1185%
Question 1282%
Question 1393%
Question 1479%
Question 1594%
Question 1696%
Question 1794%
Question 1891%
Question 1989%
Question 2095%
Question 2186%
Question 2296%
Question 2390%
Question 2493%
Question 2583%
Question 2694%

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 Newcastle University’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. Newcastle University is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.