Medical Pharmacology BSc

Cardiff University · honours · 4 years · foundation year · UCAS 2747course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £37,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£37,000

median, based on 60 graduates · half earned £27,500–£42,500 · 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, 5% with other higher education. 10% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 40 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?

£37,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£28k
Median£37k
Upper quarter£43k

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 60 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, 13, 12, 22

Half of graduates earned between £27,500 and £42,500. Five years on, the median is £42,000. 100% 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% left95%35
In work or study, 15 months on60% studying100%15
Professional or managerial job60%10
Pay 15 months on, median£39,00025
Pay 3 years on, median£37,00060
Pay 5 years on, median£42,000115
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?

81%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 89% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 30 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 77% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 297%
Question 397%
Question 494%
Question 594%
Question 697%
Question 797%
Question 890%
Question 994%
Question 1087%
Question 11100%
Question 1281%
Question 1397%
Question 1477%
Question 1597%
Question 1690%
Question 1790%
Question 1894%
Question 1986%
Question 2093%
Question 2193%
Question 22100%
Question 23100%
Question 2497%
Question 2581%
Question 2681%

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.