Social Work
15MEDIAN PAY, 15 MO£32,000
SATISFACTION83%
CONTINUATION93%
PROFESSIONAL JOBS93%
DESTINATION-WEIGHTEDAI is already used for about 15% of the work its graduates go into (Low).
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Social Work
BSW · Queen's University of Belfast · 3 years
The pay story
- £32,000Median, 15 months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes)
- not publishedMedian, 3 years out (LEO)
- not publishedMedian, 5 years out (LEO)
That 15-month median sits at the 80th percentile of 656 Social Sciences courses nationally (ties counted as half, so a course on the median never reads as below it).
Graduate voice
- 94%Found their work meaningful
- 86%Felt on track with their career
- 93%In professional-level work
Where the pay comes from
- 30 / 100Managers, directors and senior officials · 1% of graduatescards →
- 15 / 100Welfare Professionals · 88% of graduatescards →
- 15 / 100Welfare and housing associate professionals · 4% of graduatescards →
- 10 / 100Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations · 1% of graduatescards →
- 6 / 100Caring personal services · 2% of graduatescards →
MORE ON THIS COURSEClassic profile (reviews, comparisons, open days, campus video) · this course as data. Measured August 2026; pay, satisfaction and continuation figures are the course's own published data (HESA GO / LEO / NSS).