University of Derby
At a glance
Source: Discover Uni, median across coursesStudent satisfaction86%National Student Survey
In work or study90%15 months after graduating
Entrants’ UCAS points48–144+Middle entrant, by course
Continuation75%Students continuing into year 2
University of Derby offers 254 undergraduate courses listed in the Discover Uni dataset, based in the East Midlands. Across its courses, the median student satisfaction score is 86%. 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. 189 courses offer a placement year and 164 offer a year abroad.
Courses at University of Derby
Filter these coursesAdult nursing6 courses
- BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult)3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- MSci Nursing (Adult) and Leadership4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult) Direct Entry2 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult) with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- MSci Nursing Dual Award (Adult and Child)4 years · Full-time94% satisfied
- MSci Nursing Dual Award (Adult and Mental Health)4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
Anatomy, physiology and pathology4 courses
- BSc (Hons) Sport & Exercise Science with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sports Nutrition and Health3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sports Nutrition and Health with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
Applied psychology3 courses
Architecture4 courses
- BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology and Practice3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology and Practice with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Architecture3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Architecture with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time81% satisfied
Art2 courses
Artificial intelligence5 courses
- BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence and Data Science with Foundation Year3 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence in Criminology3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketing3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence in Human Resources3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) International Business and AI2 years · Full-time89% satisfied
Biology2 courses
Biomedical sciences2 courses
Building4 courses
- BSc (Hons) Construction Management3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Construction Management with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time87% satisfied
Business and management18 courses
- BA (Hons) Business Accounting and Finance3 years · Full-time94% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business Accounting and Finance with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Business and Management (Online Delivery)Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business Management3 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business Management and Accounting3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business Management and English3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business Management and Entrepreneurship3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business Management and Finance3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business Management and Human Resource Management3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business Management and Marketing3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business Management and Sustainable Practice3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business Management and Tourism3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business Management and Tourism with Placement Year4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business Management with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business Management, Supply Chain and Logistics3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) History and Business Management3 years · Full-time98% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Media and Business Management3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Music Performance and Business Management3 years · Full-time84% satisfied
Business computing1 course
Business studies2 courses
Childhood and youth studies2 courses
Children's nursing4 courses
Cinematics and photography8 courses
- BA (Hons) Animation3 years · Full-time93% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Animation with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time78% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Commercial Photography3 years · Full-time78% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Commercial Photography with Foundation Year3 years · Full-time78% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Film and High-End Television Production3 years · Full-time78% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Film and High-End Television Production with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time78% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Photography3 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Photography with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time78% satisfied
Civil engineering4 courses
Combined, general or negotiated studies1 course
Computer games and animation5 courses
- BA (Hons) Computer Games Modelling and Animation with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Games Programming with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Game Art with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Game Programming3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Game Programming with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
Computer science2 courses
Counselling, psychotherapy and occupational therapy4 courses
- BSc (Hons) Counselling and Psychotherapy (Humanistic Approaches)3 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Counselling and Psychotherapy (Humanistic Approaches) with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time78% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy3 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time78% satisfied
Creative writing3 courses
Design studies10 courses
- BA (Hons) Fashion3 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Fashion with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Fashion, Marketing and Communication3 years · Full-time
- BA (Hons) Fashion, Marketing and Communication with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Graphic Design3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Graphic Design with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Illustration3 years · Full-time79% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Illustration with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Interior Design3 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Interior Design with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time80% satisfied
Drama2 courses
Earth sciences2 courses
Economics8 courses
- BA (Hons) Economics3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Economics and Education Studies3 years · Full-time93% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Economics and Finance3 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Economics and Finance with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Economics with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BA (Hons) History and Economics3 years · Full-time98% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations and Economics3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Law and Economics3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
Education4 courses
- BA (Hons) Education Studies (with Optional Pathway in SEND or TESOL)3 years · Full-time
- BA (Hons) Education Studies with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time93% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Special Educational Needs & Disability with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time93% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Special Educational Needs and Disability3 years · Full-time
Electrical and electronic engineering4 courses
- BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time92% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sound, Light and Live Event Engineering3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sound, Light and Live Event Engineering with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
English language2 courses
English studies3 courses
Environmental sciences2 courses
Finance2 courses
Forensic and archaeological sciences4 courses
Health sciences2 courses
Health studies5 courses
- MArts (Hons) Creative Expressive Arts and Health Practice4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Creative Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Creative Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Health and Social Care3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Health and Social Care with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time81% satisfied
Healthcare science1 course
History3 courses
Human resource management1 course
Information systems2 courses
Journalism4 courses
Law9 courses
- BA (Hons) English and Law3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Entrepreneurship and Law3 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BA (Hons) History and Law3 years · Full-time98% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law (Including Specialist Pathways)3 years · Full-time
- BA (Hons) Law and Accounting3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time
- BA (Hons) Policing and Investigations3 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Professional Policing3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Professional Policing with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
Literature in English3 courses
Marketing9 courses
- BSc (Hons) Digital Marketing3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Entrepreneurship and Marketing3 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BA/BSc (Hons) Marketing3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Marketing and Consumer Psychology3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Marketing and Data Insights3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Marketing and Management3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA/BSc (Hons) Marketing with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Marketing, PR and Advertising3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Media and Marketing3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
Mathematics1 course
Mechanical engineering2 courses
Media studies4 courses
Medical technology1 course
Mental health nursing4 courses
- BSc (Hons) Nursing (Mental Health)3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- MSci Nursing (Mental Health) and Leadership4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Nursing (Mental Health) Direct Entry2 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Nursing (Mental Health) with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
Midwifery1 course
Music2 courses
Others in biosciences2 courses
Others in computing4 courses
Others in technology2 courses
Personal development3 courses
Physiotherapy2 courses
Politics2 courses
Production and manufacturing engineering2 courses
Psychology12 courses
- BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence in Psychology3 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BA/BSc (Hons) English and Psychology3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology3 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology (Online Delivery)Full-time84% satisfied
- BA/BSc (Hons) Psychology and Business Management3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology and Criminology3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BA/BSc (Hons) Psychology and Education Studies3 years · Full-time93% satisfied
- BA/BSc (Hons) Psychology and Law3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA/BSc (Hons) Psychology and Sociology3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BA/BSc (Hons) Psychology and Theatre Arts3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA/BSc (Hons) Publishing and Psychology3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
Social work2 courses
Sociology17 courses
- BA (Hons) Business Management and Criminology3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Criminology3 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BA/BSc (Hons) Criminology and Media3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Criminology and Sociology3 years · Full-time72% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Criminology and Sociology with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Criminology with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Education Studies and Criminology3 years · Full-time93% satisfied
- BA/BSc (Hons) History and Criminology3 years · Full-time98% satisfied
- BA (Hons) History and Sociology3 years · Full-time98% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations and Sociology3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law with Criminology3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Sociology3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Sociology and Economics3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Sociology and English3 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Sociology and Human Resource Management3 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Sociology and Media3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Sociology with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time82% satisfied
Software engineering2 courses
Sport and exercise sciences8 courses
- FDA Athlete Professional Development2 years · Full-time96% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Performance Analysis and Coaching Science3 years · Full-time72% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Performance Analysis and Coaching Science with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time93% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology and Sport Studies3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Sport Coaching and Coach Development3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Sport Coaching and Coach Development with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time90% satisfied
Teacher training3 courses
Tourism, transport and travel8 courses
- BA (Hons) Event Management3 years · Full-time94% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Event Management with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time94% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Hospitality Management3 years · Full-time94% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Hospitality Management with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time94% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Tourism Management3 years · Full-time94% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Tourism Management with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time94% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Sport Management3 years · Full-time94% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Sport Management with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time94% satisfied
Living and studying here
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Main location: Kedleston Road, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 1GB · View on map
Frequently asked questions
What UCAS points do you need for University of Derby?
It depends on the course. Based on the most recent entrants, the middle student arrived with between 48 and 144+ points across University of Derby’s courses. Check each course page for its figure, and the university’s own website for its current offer.
Are students at University of Derby satisfied with their course?
The median National Student Survey positivity score across University of Derby’s courses is 86%. Scores vary a lot by course, so compare the individual courses you are interested in.
Do University of Derby graduates get jobs?
A median of 90% of graduates were in work or further study 15 months after graduating, with a median salary of £27,000. Figures come from the Graduate Outcomes survey.
How many courses does University of Derby offer?
We list 254 undergraduate courses at University of Derby, across 64 subjects.