Modern Languages degrees compared with official data
939 courses at 49 universities, every page shows entry standards, graduate earnings, satisfaction scores and fees.
Top Modern Languages courses
Ordered by the arithmetic mean of the official measures published for each course, NSS satisfaction, graduate activity and continuation. Official data only; no commercial league-table input. Two of the three measures are published rounded to the nearest 5 percentage points, so courses are grouped into bands against the whole board instead of scored out of 10, and courses whose measures are identical are listed alphabetically.
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What Modern Languages graduates earn
What Modern Languages graduates actually earn, from real outcome data — 15 months, 3 years and 5 years after graduating.
National figures for Modern Languages graduates — HESA Graduate Outcomes (15 months) and the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset (3 & 5 years). These are national, not university-specific; actual pay varies by employer, region, role and experience. Different cohorts, so the bars are not one group over time.
Roles & employers
Where Modern Languages graduates typically go.
Typical roles
- Translator
- Interpreter
- Localisation specialist
- International account manager
- Language teacher
Where they work
- Translation agencies
- International businesses
- Government (FCDO)
- Tourism & education
Every university offering Modern Languages
Course counts link to each university’s full profile.
- University of St Andrews (219)
- UCL (213)
- Oxford University (115)
- University of Glasgow (49)
- University of Edinburgh (36)
- The University of Essex (21)
- University of Manchester (21)
- University of Aberdeen (18)
- University of Birmingham (16)
- SOAS University of London (15)
- Heriot-Watt University (14)
- University of Leeds (12)
- Manchester Metropolitan University (12)
- University of Lancashire (12)
- University of Warwick (11)
- University of York (10)
- Queen Mary University of London (10)
- Birkbeck, University of London (9)
- Aberystwyth University (9)
- University of Bath (9)
- University of East Anglia (8)
- Royal Holloway, University of London (8)
- Bangor University (8)
- Swansea University (8)
- Cardiff University (8)
- The University of Liverpool (6)
- Oxford Brookes University (6)
- University of Exeter (5)
- University of Wales Trinity Saint David (5)
- The University of Westminster (5)
- Newcastle University (4)
- University of Portsmouth (3)
- Durham University (3)
- University of Stirling (3)
- University of Sheffield (3)
- University of Cambridge (3)
- University of Bristol (3)
- University of Southampton (3)
- University of Reading (2)
- Ulster University (2)
- London Metropolitan University (2)
- University of Chester (2)
- The Open University (2)
- University of London institute in Paris (1)
- The University of Surrey (1)
- University of Sussex (1)
- Lancaster University (1)
- University of Strathclyde (1)
- The University of Kent (1)
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