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Newcastle University · honours · 4 years · optional placement year · UCAS 3715course page ↗

AAB at A level; graduates earn a median £30,500 three years on.

Typical A level offer
AAB

90% of entrants came with A levels · 85% stay on after year 1 · Newcastle course page, Discover Uni

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

AABtypical 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: 90% with A levels, 7% with other higher education. 1% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 165 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
IB34 points2027 entry, from meta tags; required subjects not in HTML (widget filled by bundle.course-ug-min.js)—
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£30,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£25k
Median£31k
Upper quarter£37k

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 20 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 12, 14, 22

Half of graduates earned between £25,000 and £37,000. Five years on, the median is £35,500. 87% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 100% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 115% left85%190
In work or study, 15 months on2% studying87%55
Professional or managerial job100%45
Pay 15 months on, median£37,00035
Pay 3 years on, median£30,50020
Pay 5 years on, median£35,50025
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 £40,200 in fees over 4 years, covered by a tuition fee loan you repay only when earning above the threshold. International students: £30,300 a year (2027/28).

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; 95% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 125 students answered

Highest: 98% agreed on question 13; lowest: 57% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 194%
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Question 882%
Question 990%
Question 1072%
Question 1177%
Question 1273%
Question 1398%
Question 1479%
Question 1598%
Question 1693%
Question 1778%
Question 1885%
Question 1990%
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Question 2194%
Question 2290%
Question 2378%
Question 2457%
Question 2575%
Question 2692%

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.