Religion, Philosophy and Ethics BA

Cardiff University · honours · 3 years · UCAS 5385course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £25,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£25,000

median, based on 80 graduates · half earned £20,500–£32,000 · 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: 97% with A levels. 3% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 60 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?

£25,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£21k
Median£25k
Upper quarter£32k

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 80 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 13, 23

Half of graduates earned between £20,500 and £32,000. Five years on, the median is £30,500. 85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 35% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 16% left92%100
In work or study, 15 months on15% studying85%40
Professional or managerial job35%25
Pay 15 months on, median£26,00015
Pay 3 years on, median£25,00080
Pay 5 years on, median£30,50085
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; 63% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 80 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 68% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 295%
Question 398%
Question 487%
Question 588%
Question 686%
Question 785%
Question 875%
Question 982%
Question 1079%
Question 1180%
Question 1284%
Question 1388%
Question 1468%
Question 1598%
Question 1690%
Question 1788%
Question 1883%
Question 1984%
Question 2095%
Question 2189%
Question 2292%
Question 2388%
Question 2476%
Question 2587%
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.