Aberystwyth University
At a glance
Source: Discover Uni, median across coursesStudent satisfaction89%National Student Survey
In work or study90%15 months after graduating
Entrants’ UCAS points48–144+Middle entrant, by course
Continuation90%Students continuing into year 2
Aberystwyth University offers 309 undergraduate courses listed in the Discover Uni dataset, based in Wales. Across its courses, the median student satisfaction score is 89%. A median of 90% of graduates were in work or further study 15 months after finishing. Students typically arrived with between 48 and 144+ UCAS tariff points, depending on the course. 54 courses offer a placement year and 30 offer a year abroad.
Courses at Aberystwyth University
Filter these coursesAdult nursing1 course
Agriculture8 courses
- BSc (Hons) Agriculture3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- FdSc Agriculture2 years · Full-time
- MAg (Hons) Agriculture4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Agriculture (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- FdSc Agriculture (with integrated year in industry)3 years · Full-time
- BSc (Hons) Agriculture (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Business Management3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Business Management (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
Animal science15 courses
- BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Animal Science3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- MAg (Hons) Agriculture with Animal Science4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Agriculture with Animal Science (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Animal Science3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Animal Science4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Animal Science (with year in industry)4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Equine and Veterinary Bioscience3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Equine and Veterinary Bioscience4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Equine and Veterinary Bioscience (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Equine and Veterinary Bioscience (with integrated year studying abroad)5 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Equine and Veterinary Bioscience (with year in industry)4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- FdSc Equine Studies2 years · Full-time
- BSc (Hons) Veterinary Biosciences3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Veterinary Biosciences4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Veterinary Biosciences (with year in industry)4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
Applied psychology1 course
Astronomy4 courses
Biology5 courses
- BSc (Hons) Biology3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- MBiol (Hons) Biology5 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- MBiol (Hons) Biology4 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Biology (includes foundation year)4 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Biology (with year in industry)4 years · Full-time88% satisfied
Biomedical sciences6 courses
- BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Health Science (Nutrition and Exercise)3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Health Science (Nutrition and Exercise)4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Health Science (Nutrition and Exercise) (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
Business studies6 courses
- BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance / Business and Management3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Business & Management3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Business and Climate Change3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Business and Management / French4 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Business and Management with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Marketing / Business and Management3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
Celtic studies2 courses
Cinematics and photography1 course
Computer science12 courses
- BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance and Computing3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Graphics, Vision and Games3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Graphics, Vision and Games (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- MComp (Hons) Computer Science4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science (includes foundation year)4 years · Full-time74% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- MComp (Hons) Computer Science (with integrated year in industry)5 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence3 years · Full-time78% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science/Physical Geography3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
Counselling, psychotherapy and occupational therapy2 courses
Creative writing7 courses
- BA (Hons) Creative Writing3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Creative Writing and Drama and Theatre Studies3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Creative Writing and Film and Television Studies3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Creative Writing and Fine Art3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Creative Writing and History3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Creative Writing and Modern Languages4 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Media and Creative Writing3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
Drama3 courses
Earth sciences4 courses
- BSc (Hons) Environmental Earth Science3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Environmental Earth Science (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Environmental Earth Science (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Environmental Earth Science (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
Ecology and environmental biology11 courses
- BSc (Hons) Ecology3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Ecology4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Ecology (with year in industry)4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Marine & Freshwater Biology3 years · Full-time93% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Marine & Freshwater Biology (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- MBiol (Hons) Marine and Freshwater Biology5 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- MBiol (Hons) Marine and Freshwater Biology4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Marine and Freshwater Biology (with year in industry)4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Wildlife Conservation4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Wildlife Conservation3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Wildlife Conservation (with year in industry)4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
Economics10 courses
- BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance / Economics3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Business and Management and Computing3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Business Economics3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Business Economics with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Economics3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Economics / Business and Management3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Economics and Climate Change3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Economics and International Relations3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Economics and Politics3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Economics with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
Education6 courses
- BA (Hons) Childhood Studies3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies with Early Years Practitioner Status3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Education3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Education (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Education / Drama and Theatre3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Education / History3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
Electrical and electronic engineering5 courses
- BEng (Hons) Computer Science (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- MEng (Hons) Sustainable Electrical and Electronic Engineering4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- MEng (Hons) Sustainable Electrical and Electronic Engineering (with integrated year in industry)5 years · Full-time86% satisfied
English studies2 courses
Environmental sciences4 courses
- BSc (Hons) Environmental Science3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Environmental Science (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Environmental Science (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Environmental Science (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
Finance4 courses
Genetics3 courses
Heritage studies1 course
History9 courses
- BA (Hons) Drama & Theatre Studies/History3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Hanes3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Hanes a Hanes Cymru3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) History3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) History (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) History (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) History and Welsh History3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Medieval and Early Modern History3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Modern and Contemporary History3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
History of art, architecture and design3 courses
Human geography4 courses
- BA (Hons) Human Geography3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Human Geography (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Human Geography (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Human Geography (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
Iberian studies1 course
Information systems3 courses
Information technology3 courses
Law11 courses
- LLB (Hons) Business Law3 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Criminal Law3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Human Rights3 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Law3 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law3 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law and Accounting & Finance3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law and Business & Management3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law and Cymraeg Proffesiynol3 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law and French4 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Senior Status Law2 years · Full-time92% satisfied
Literature in English9 courses
- BA (Hons) English Literature3 years · Full-time76% satisfied
- BA (Hons) English Literature and Creative Writing3 years · Full-time74% satisfied
- BA (Hons) English Literature and Creative Writing (with integrated Foundation Year)4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BA (Hons) English Literature/Education3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Film & Television Studies/English Literature3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Fine Art / English Literature3 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- BA (Hons) History/English Literature3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Media and English Literature3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Modern Languages / English Literature4 years · Full-time92% satisfied
Marketing4 courses
Mathematics23 courses
- BSc (Hons) Applied Mathematics/Pure Mathematics3 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science/Mathematics3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Cymraeg/Mathematics3 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Data Science3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Data Science (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Film and Television Studies / Mathematics3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Financial Mathematics3 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Financial Mathematics (includes foundation year)4 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- BA (Hons) History / Mathematics3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Mathematical Modelling3 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Mathematics3 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- MMath (Hons) Mathematics4 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Mathematics (includes foundation year)4 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Mathematics (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Mathematics / Accounting and Finance3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Mathematics / Business and Management3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Mathematics / Drama and Theatre Studies3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Mathematics / Economics3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Mathematics / Education3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Mathematics with Education3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Modern Languages / Mathematics4 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Physical Geography/Mathematics3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Pure Mathematics/Statistics3 years · Full-time96% satisfied
Media studies6 courses
- BA (Hons) Film & Television Studies3 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Film & Television Studies (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Film & Television Studies/Drama & Theatre Studies3 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Film & Television Studies/Fine Art3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Media and Communication Studies3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Writing for Broadcasting, Media and Performance3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
Mental health nursing1 course
Microbiology and cell science5 courses
- BSc (Hons) Microbiology3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Microbiology4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- MBiol (Hons) Microbiology4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- MBiol (Hons) Microbiology5 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Microbiology (with year in industry)4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
Molecular biology, biophysics and biochemistry5 courses
- BSc (Hons) Biochemistry3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Biochemistry4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- MBiol (Hons) Biochemistry4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- MBiol (Hons) Biochemistry5 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Biochemistry (with year in industry)4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
Others in language and area studies3 courses
Others in veterinary sciences1 course
Physical geographical sciences9 courses
- BSc (Hons) Daearyddiaeth3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Geography3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Geography (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Geography (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time93% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Geography (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Physical Geography3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Physical Geography (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Physical Geography (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Physical Geography (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time96% satisfied
Physics13 courses
- BEng (Hons) Engineering Physics3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- MEng (Hons) Engineering Physics (with integrated year in industry)5 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BEng (Hons) Engineering Physics (with year in industry)4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Mathematical and Theoretical Physics3 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- MMath (Hons) Mathematical and Theoretical Physics4 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Mathematics/Physics3 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Physics3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- MPhys (Hons) Physics4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Physics (includes foundation year)4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Physics (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- MPhys (Hons) Physics (with integrated year in industry)5 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Physics with Planetary & Space Physics3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- MPhys (Hons) Physics with Planetary & Space Physics4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
Plant sciences4 courses
Politics19 courses
- BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre / International Relations3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Hanes / Cysylltiadau Rhyngwladol3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations3 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations (with integrated year in Industry)4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations / History3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations and Media3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations and Military History3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations and Military History (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations and Military History (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law and International Relations3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Modern Languages / International Relations4 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Politics3 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Politics (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Politics & Modern History3 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Politics and International Relations3 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Politics and International Relations (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Welsh / International Relations3 years · Full-time92% satisfied
Production and manufacturing engineering6 courses
- BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence and Robotics3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (inc Integrated Industrial and Professional Training)4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BEng (Hons) Robotics and Embedded Systems Engineering3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- MEng (Hons) Robotics and Embedded Systems Engineering4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BEng (Hons) Robotics and Embedded Systems Engineering (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- MEng (Hons) Robotics and Embedded Systems Engineering (with integrated year in industry)5 years · Full-time86% satisfied
Psychology11 courses
- BSc (Hons) Marketing and Psychology3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology3 years · Full-time79% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology and Criminology (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology and Education3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology and Sociology3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology with Forensic Psychology3 years · Full-time79% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology with Forensic Psychology (with integrated year in industry)4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology/Criminology3 years · Full-time78% satisfied
Social policy2 courses
Sociology9 courses
- BSc (Hons) Criminology3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Criminology (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Criminology and Sociology3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law and Criminology3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Sociology3 years · Full-time79% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sociology (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Sociology (with integrated year in Industry)4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Sociology (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sociology and Politics3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
Software engineering2 courses
Sport and exercise sciences3 courses
Welsh studies6 courses
- BA (Hons) Cymraeg (i fyfyrwyr iaith gyntaf ac ail iaith)3 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Cymraeg a Daearyddiaeth3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Cymraeg a Hanes3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Cymraeg Proffesiynol3 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Cymraeg/Education3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Welsh (for Beginners)4 years · Full-time92% satisfied
Zoology10 courses
- BSc (Hons) Animal Behaviour3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Animal Behaviour (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Animal Behaviour (with year in industry)4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Zoology3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- MBiol (Hons) Zoology4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- MBiol (Hons) Zoology5 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Zoology (with integrated foundation year)4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Zoology (with integrated year studying abroad)4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Zoology (with integrated year studying abroad)5 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Zoology (with year in industry)4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
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Frequently asked questions
What UCAS points do you need for Aberystwyth University?
It depends on the course. Based on the most recent entrants, the middle student arrived with between 48 and 144+ points across Aberystwyth University’s courses. Check each course page for its figure, and the university’s own website for its current offer.
Are students at Aberystwyth University satisfied with their course?
The median National Student Survey positivity score across Aberystwyth University’s courses is 89%. Scores vary a lot by course, so compare the individual courses you are interested in.
Do Aberystwyth University graduates get jobs?
A median of 90% of graduates were in work or further study 15 months after graduating, with a median salary of £25,500. Figures come from the Graduate Outcomes survey.
How many courses does Aberystwyth University offer?
We list 309 undergraduate courses at Aberystwyth University, across 53 subjects.