English Language BA

Cardiff University · honours · 4 years · foundation year · UCAS 6347course page ↗

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

Pay three years after graduating
£23,500

median, based on 375 graduates · half earned £18,500–£27,500 · 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: 95% with A levels. Based on 15 entrants.
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£23,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£19k
Median£24k
Upper quarter£28k

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 375 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, 13

Half of graduates earned between £18,500 and £27,500. Five years on, the median is £29,000. 83% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 57% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left90%25
In work or study, 15 months on11% studying83%235
Professional or managerial job57%150
Pay 15 months on, median£25,00090
Pay 3 years on, median£23,500375
Pay 5 years on, median£29,000400
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?

58%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 69% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 35 students answered

Highest: 94% agreed on question 15; lowest: 58% on question 26.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 191%
Question 285%
Question 385%
Question 479%
Question 579%
Question 688%
Question 779%
Question 864%
Question 973%
Question 1082%
Question 1176%
Question 1291%
Question 1361%
Question 1467%
Question 1594%
Question 1694%
Question 1782%
Question 1873%
Question 1984%
Question 2094%
Question 2184%
Question 2288%
Question 2382%
Question 2461%
Question 2585%
Question 2658%

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.