Modern Chinese BA

Cardiff University · honours · 4 years · UCAS 4155course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £25,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£25,500

median, based on 155 graduates · half earned £22,500–£31,000 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 90% with A levels, 10% via Access courses. Based on 10 entrants.
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£25,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£23k
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 155 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 23, 13, 12, 22

Half of graduates earned between £22,500 and £31,000. Five years on, the median is £30,500. 90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 40% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 115% left85%15
In work or study, 15 months on20% studying90%10
Professional or managerial job40%15
Pay 15 months on, median£27,50030
Pay 3 years on, median£25,500155
Pay 5 years on, median£30,500170
Money

What does it cost?

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

Cardiff fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

71%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 77% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 20 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 19% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 267%
Question 381%
Question 467%
Question 585%
Question 670%
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Question 967%
Question 1074%
Question 1181%
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Question 1448%
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Question 1696%
Question 1759%
Question 1874%
Question 1980%
Question 2081%
Question 2190%
Question 2289%
Question 2377%
Question 2419%
Question 2565%
Question 2671%

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