Civil and Environmental Engineering MEng

Cardiff University · honours · 5 years · placement year · UCAS 3067course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £31,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£31,000

median, based on 120 graduates · half earned £28,500–£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: 82% with A levels, 2% with other higher education. 1% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 150 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?

£31,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£29k
Median£31k
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 120 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 13, 23

Half of graduates earned between £28,500 and £36,000. Five years on, the median is £38,500. 95% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 90% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 16% left93%140
In work or study, 15 months on5% studying95%60
Professional or managerial job90%50
Pay 15 months on, median£32,00040
Pay 3 years on, median£31,000120
Pay 5 years on, median£38,500125
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?

87%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 83% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 65 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 20; lowest: 68% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 192%
Question 280%
Question 392%
Question 488%
Question 572%
Question 689%
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Question 883%
Question 988%
Question 1077%
Question 1186%
Question 1274%
Question 1375%
Question 1468%
Question 1597%
Question 1694%
Question 1772%
Question 1882%
Question 1984%
Question 20100%
Question 2194%
Question 2295%
Question 2390%
Question 2483%
Question 2582%
Question 2687%

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.