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Cardiff University · honours · 3 years · UCAS 0642course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £23,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£23,500

median, based on 80 graduates · half earned £18,500–£26,500 · 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: 85% with A levels, 5% with other higher education. 5% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 20 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?

£23,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£19k
Median£24k
Upper quarter£27k

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 24, 14, 23

Half of graduates earned between £18,500 and £26,500. Five years on, the median is £27,000. 75% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 60% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left80%20
In work or study, 15 months on10% studying75%25
Professional or managerial job60%10
Pay 15 months on, median£25,00015
Pay 3 years on, median£23,50080
Pay 5 years on, median£27,00085
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?

57%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 58% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 15 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 5; lowest: 57% on question 26.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 193%
Question 293%
Question 387%
Question 480%
Question 5100%
Question 687%
Question 787%
Question 880%
Question 973%
Question 1093%
Question 1187%
Question 1287%
Question 1380%
Question 1467%
Question 1593%
Question 1693%
Question 1773%
Question 1867%
Question 1967%
Question 2080%
Question 2193%
Question 2280%
Question 2387%
Question 2473%
Question 2587%
Question 2657%

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.