Business & Administrative Studies
Business & Administrative Studies
5 years after Graduation.
EXPLAINER NOTES BY ANDY GARDNER
Subjects covered include:
Business studies, Management studies, Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Human resource management, Hospitality, leisure, sport, tourism & transport, Real estate management, Actuarial
General Median salaries to compare with below:
For all 24-29-year-olds in work in 2014-15: £20,800 WonkHE. For all ages, £27,600 in 2015 ASHE
Interesting points from the depths of the LEO spreadsheet:
For a course that sounds so vocational many of the earnings here are very disappointing. Lower quartiles for around half of the courses are below general median earnings. Also prior attainment bands are drearily closely matched with median earnings. If sixth formers are not bothered about the university experience, the growing range of Accountancy, Insurance, Investment Management and Digital Marketing Apprenticeships must surely appeal.
It’s not just about the money!
There are many reasons to go to university; Love of a subject, independent and critical thinking, independent living (if affordable!). It’s not just about salary levels, however applicants must not be misled by general statements about a blanket graduate dividend, these can be clearly bogus. See information below.
For courses with a clear vocational link, check to see if there is a relevant apprenticeship standard:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/apprenticeship-standards https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/institute-for-apprenticeships
https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeshipsearch
Business & Administrative Studies
Data Set

HE provider | Upper quartile | Median earnings | Lower quartile |
---|---|---|---|
The University of Oxford | 112000 | 71700 | 52200 |
The University of Cambridge | 75000 | 49600 | 39500 |
London School of Economics and Political Science | 67300 | 48300 | 38800 |
The University of Warwick | 53700 | 45100 | 32700 |
The University of Bath | 66600 | 44600 | 32000 |
Loughborough University | 51600 | 41400 | 31600 |
The City University | 52800 | 41200 | 29300 |
The University of Bristol | 53100 | 40300 | 33200 |
University of Nottingham | 51500 | 39200 | 30000 |
The University of Reading | 54300 | 38700 | 30400 |
King's College London | 50600 | 36300 | 27700 |
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | 46400 | 35800 | 25500 |
Aston University | 46100 | 35600 | 27500 |
The University of Manchester | 46900 | 34800 | 25800 |
The University of Leeds | 44800 | 34600 | 28300 |
The University of Southampton | 45400 | 34300 | 28000 |
The University of Edinburgh | 42400 | 34000 | 27100 |
The University of St Andrews | 44100 | 33700 | 29300 |
The University of Sussex | 45900 | 33500 | 28500 |
Cardiff University | 42200 | 33500 | 23600 |
The University of Lancaster | 44100 | 33300 | 25900 |
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 43300 | 33200 | 24800 |
The University of Sheffield | 40600 | 33000 | 24600 |
The University of Glasgow | 40200 | 32900 | 23300 |
The University of Exeter | 41500 | 32700 | 25800 |
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College | 38300 | 32700 | 21800 |
The University of Birmingham | 44600 | 32600 | 25000 |
The Open University in England16 | 44500 | 32100 | 19600 |
The University of Surrey | 44300 | 32100 | 24100 |
Oxford Brookes University | 40500 | 31400 | 25200 |
The Robert Gordon University | 42500 | 31400 | 23900 |
University of Durham | 46200 | 31200 | 24100 |
The University of Kent | 39500 | 30800 | 24700 |
Birkbeck College | 56300 | 30700 | 22800 |
Bournemouth University | 40800 | 30500 | 23500 |
The University of Brighton | 38300 | 30200 | 23200 |
Queen Mary University of London | 38900 | 30100 | 23700 |
The University of Essex | 37700 | 30000 | 22200 |
Brunel University London | 38700 | 29400 | 22100 |
The University of Portsmouth | 38900 | 29400 | 22600 |
The University of Liverpool | 36800 | 28500 | 21100 |
University of the Arts, London | 35000 | 28400 | 21500 |
University of the West of England, Bristol | 38000 | 28400 | 21600 |
The University of Aberdeen | 39800 | 28400 | 21100 |
The Nottingham Trent University | 37900 | 28100 | 21500 |
The University of Strathclyde | 39200 | 28100 | 22400 |
Royal Agricultural University | 32500 | 27700 | 22400 |
The University of Leicester | 34100 | 27500 | 22700 |
SRUC | 31600 | 27200 | 20300 |
The University of East Anglia | 36200 | 27100 | 20500 |
Harper Adams University | 33200 | 27100 | 24100 |
Heriot-Watt University | 34300 | 27100 | 20700 |
Kingston University | 34400 | 26900 | 19900 |
University of Hertfordshire | 33900 | 26600 | 20900 |
The University of Keele | 33200 | 26300 | 21200 |
The University of Dundee | 39100 | 26300 | 20200 |
GB | 35600 | 26300 | 19400 |
Glasgow Caledonian University | 32900 | 25900 | 19400 |
The University of Stirling | 30800 | 25800 | 19300 |
University of Northumbria at Newcastle | 34100 | 25600 | 19300 |
The University of Winchester | 31900 | 25600 | 18900 |
York St John University | 37300 | 25600 | 20700 |
Edinburgh Napier University | 35100 | 25600 | 18800 |
Roehampton University | 33900 | 25500 | 18900 |
Canterbury Christ Church University | 33400 | 25400 | 18500 |
University of Gloucestershire | 32800 | 25400 | 20100 |
University of Plymouth | 33000 | 25000 | 19200 |
Swansea University | 33700 | 25000 | 19200 |
The University of Westminster | 32400 | 24900 | 17700 |
The University of Hull | 32300 | 24800 | 19100 |
Sheffield Hallam University | 32700 | 24700 | 19000 |
The Arts University Bournemouth | 37600 | 24600 | 20600 |
Leeds Beckett University | 31200 | 24600 | 18200 |
Southampton Solent University | 31500 | 24600 | 18900 |
The Manchester Metropolitan University | 32900 | 24400 | 18300 |
University of Worcester | 31900 | 24400 | 15700 |
The University of Lincoln | 33500 | 24200 | 19200 |
De Montfort University | 30300 | 24100 | 18400 |
Buckinghamshire New University | 32300 | 24000 | 17600 |
Aberystwyth University | 35900 | 24000 | 18800 |
St Mary's University, Twickenham | 32000 | 23900 | 20000 |
Anglia Ruskin University | 33400 | 23700 | 18600 |
Writtle College | 28200 | 23700 | 15100 |
Bath Spa University | 30100 | 23600 | 17800 |
The University of Sunderland | 30600 | 23600 | 18100 |
University of Chester | 29900 | 23500 | 19000 |
Coventry University | 29100 | 23400 | 18200 |
The University of West London | 33000 | 23400 | 17300 |
Leeds Trinity University | 32200 | 23300 | 17000 |
University of South Wales | 31600 | 23300 | 16700 |
The University of Northampton | 30100 | 23200 | 17700 |
London Metropolitan University | 30000 | 23100 | 14900 |
Glyndŵr University | 29000 | 23100 | 18500 |
University of Abertay Dundee | 29700 | 23000 | 18400 |
The University of Greenwich | 29000 | 22900 | 16500 |
Liverpool John Moores University | 29800 | 22700 | 16700 |
University of the Highlands and Islands | 42200 | 22700 | 21300 |
The University of Huddersfield | 28200 | 22600 | 16500 |
Middlesex University | 28100 | 22500 | 16000 |
The University of Chichester | 27100 | 22300 | 17700 |
Staffordshire University | 28500 | 22300 | 17200 |
University of Wales Trinity Saint David | 27800 | 22200 | 16800 |
Teesside University | 27900 | 22100 | 17300 |
Birmingham City University | 30200 | 22000 | 16400 |
The University of Bradford | 29500 | 22000 | 14200 |
London South Bank University | 29400 | 22000 | 15800 |
Cardiff Metropolitan University | 28800 | 22000 | 16800 |
University of Bedfordshire | 26100 | 21700 | 16900 |
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh | 27200 | 21700 | 16100 |
The University of the West of Scotland | 28200 | 21600 | 16800 |
University Campus Suffolk | 29300 | 21500 | 15600 |
Edge Hill University | 25800 | 21400 | 15200 |
University of Derby | 30100 | 21200 | 16300 |
Bangor University | 26500 | 21200 | 17200 |
The University of Salford | 28100 | 21100 | 14700 |
University College Birmingham | 26400 | 20900 | 16100 |
The University of Central Lancashire | 25400 | 20500 | 15300 |
The University of East London | 26700 | 20200 | 12900 |
University of Cumbria | 26200 | 19900 | 15000 |
The University of Bolton | 27700 | 19600 | 15800 |
Liverpool Hope University | 24800 | 19500 | 15100 |
The University of Wolverhampton | 24900 | 19400 | 15400 |