Medicine MBBCh

Cardiff University · honours · 5 years · UCAS 2452course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £47,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£47,000

median, based on 365 graduates · half earned £39,500–£53,000 · 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: 95% with A levels. 29% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 300 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?

£47,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£40k
Median£47k
Upper quarter£53k

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 365 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, 14, 24

Half of graduates earned between £39,500 and £53,000. Five years on, the median is £52,000. 96% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 98% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 10% left100%300
In work or study, 15 months on1% studying96%365
Professional or managerial job98%350
Pay 15 months on, median£40,000245
Pay 3 years on, median£47,000365
Pay 5 years on, median£52,000400
Money

What does it cost?

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

Cardiff fees page

National Student Survey 2024-26

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; 73% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 185 students answered

Highest: 95% agreed on question 7; lowest: 54% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
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Question 2454%
Question 2589%
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 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.