Philosophy & Religion degrees compared with official data
652 courses at 79 universities, every page shows entry standards, graduate earnings, satisfaction scores and fees.
Top Philosophy & Religion 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 Philosophy & Religion graduates earn
What Philosophy & Religion graduates actually earn, from real outcome data — 15 months, 3 years and 5 years after graduating.
National figures for Philosophy & Religion 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 Philosophy & Religion graduates typically go.
Typical roles
- Researcher
- Teacher
- Ethics / policy adviser
- Charity roles
- Communications
Where they work
- Schools & universities
- Think tanks
- Charities & NGOs
- Civil service
Every university offering Philosophy & Religion
Course counts link to each university’s full profile.
- University of Glasgow (61)
- University of St Andrews (49)
- Liverpool Hope University (36)
- University of Aberdeen (22)
- The University of Essex (22)
- Christ the Redeemer College (20)
- Nazarene Theological College (20)
- University of the Highlands and Islands (18)
- SOAS University of London (18)
- Cliff College (16)
- Oxford University (15)
- University of Wales Trinity Saint David (14)
- London School of Theology (14)
- University of Edinburgh (14)
- Oxford Brookes University (12)
- Royal Holloway, University of London (11)
- Manchester Metropolitan University (11)
- University of Dundee (10)
- University of Hertfordshire (10)
- University of Stirling (10)
- University of Manchester (9)
- Lancaster University (9)
- University of York (9)
- University of Reading (9)
- St Mellitus College (8)
- Durham University (8)
- University of London (8)
- University of East Anglia (7)
- University of Exeter (7)
- UCL (7)
- University of Birmingham (7)
- University of Bristol (7)
- The Cambridge theological Federation (6)
- Swansea University (6)
- Nottingham Trent University (6)
- University of Southampton (6)
- University of Nottingham (6)
- York St John University (6)
- University of Sheffield (6)
- Lincoln Bishop University (5)
- University of Leeds (5)
- All Nations Christian College (4)
- Moorlands College (4)
- Trinity College Bristol (4)
- Luther King House Educational Trust (4)
- St Hild College (4)
- University of Chester (4)
- Birkbeck, University of London (4)
- Keele University (4)
- Birmingham Christian College (4)
- Emmanuel Theological College (4)
- UWE Bristol (4)
- Bristol Baptist College (4)
- Assemblies of God Incorporated (4)
- Cardiff University (4)
- Newbold College (3)
- University of Sussex (3)
- Anglia Ruskin University (3)
- Roehampton University (3)
- Bangor University (3)
- University of Cambridge (3)
- University of Warwick (2)
- University of Winchester (2)
- The University of Liverpool (2)
- Leeds Trinity University (2)
- Edge Hill University (2)
- Birmingham Newman University (2)
- The Open University (2)
- The London School of Economics and Political Science (2)
- Canterbury Christ Church University (2)
- Regents Theological College (2)
- Northeastern University London (1)
- University of Lincoln (1)
- Newcastle University (1)
- University of Gloucestershire (1)
- University of Brighton (1)
- Coventry University (1)
- University of Hull (1)
- Stranmillis University College (1)
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