Physics & Chemistry degrees compared with official data
915 courses at 67 universities, every page shows entry standards, graduate earnings, satisfaction scores and fees.
Top Physics & Chemistry 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 Physics & Chemistry graduates earn
What Physics & Chemistry graduates actually earn, from real outcome data — 15 months, 3 years and 5 years after graduating.
National figures for Physics & Chemistry 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 Physics & Chemistry graduates typically go.
Typical roles
- Research scientist
- Data analyst
- Physicist / chemist
- Lab technician
- Science communicator
Where they work
- Research institutes
- Energy & manufacturing
- Universities
- Government labs
Every university offering Physics & Chemistry
Course counts link to each university’s full profile.
- University of York (39)
- The University of Surrey (38)
- University of Leeds (35)
- University of Bath (31)
- University of Glasgow (29)
- The University of Liverpool (28)
- Nottingham Trent University (28)
- University of Edinburgh (27)
- University of Birmingham (27)
- University of St Andrews (26)
- University of Lincoln (26)
- Keele University (24)
- Lancaster University (23)
- Loughborough University (23)
- Swansea University (22)
- Imperial College London (21)
- University of Bristol (21)
- The University of Kent (20)
- University of Manchester (18)
- University of Leicester (18)
- University of East Anglia (17)
- UCL (17)
- Durham University (17)
- Cardiff University (17)
- University of Nottingham (17)
- University of Southampton (16)
- University of Sussex (16)
- University of Aberdeen (16)
- University of Exeter (14)
- Queen Mary University of London (13)
- Royal Holloway, University of London (13)
- Aberystwyth University (13)
- University of Warwick (13)
- University of Lancashire (13)
- University of Strathclyde (12)
- University of Hertfordshire (12)
- University of Northumbria at Newcastle (11)
- Newcastle University (11)
- University of Sheffield (11)
- Heriot-Watt University (11)
- University of the West of Scotland (10)
- University of Dundee (9)
- University of Huddersfield (9)
- University of Hull (7)
- The University of Bradford (6)
- University of Reading (6)
- Kingston University (6)
- University of Portsmouth (6)
- The Open University (5)
- Oxford University (4)
- University of Plymouth (4)
- Liverpool John Moores University (4)
- Edge Hill University (3)
- The University of Essex (3)
- Sheffield Hallam University (3)
- Teesside University (3)
- Birkbeck, University of London (3)
- Manchester Metropolitan University (3)
- London Metropolitan University (3)
- The University of West London (3)
- The University of Salford (2)
- University of Chester (2)
- The University of East London (2)
- De Montfort University (2)
- Blackpool and the Fylde College (1)
- Bangor University (1)
- Wrexham University (1)
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