Engineering BEng

Cardiff University · honours · 4 years · foundation year · UCAS 5132course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £32,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£32,500

median, based on 15 graduates · half earned £25,500–£36,000 · 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: 96% with A levels, 2% via Access courses. Based on 55 entrants.
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£32,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£26k
Median£33k
Upper quarter£36k

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 15 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, 14, 13, 24

Half of graduates earned between £25,500 and £36,000. Five years on, the median is £41,500. 90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 80% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 131% left69%55
In work or study, 15 months on10% studying90%10
Professional or managerial job80%15
Pay 15 months on, median£33,50010
Pay 3 years on, median£32,50015
Pay 5 years on, median£41,50020
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?

73%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 · 10 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 45% on question 2.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 245%
Question 3100%
Question 482%
Question 564%
Question 673%
Question 773%
Question 882%
Question 955%
Question 1055%
Question 1173%
Question 1273%
Question 1373%
Question 1455%
Question 1591%
Question 1682%
Question 1764%
Question 1873%
Question 1982%
Question 2091%
Question 2191%
Question 2273%
Question 2370%
Question 2464%
Question 2580%
Question 2673%

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.