Games Design
43MEDIAN PAY, 15 MO£24,000
SATISFACTION67%
CONTINUATION75%
PROFESSIONAL JOBS40%
DESTINATION-WEIGHTEDAI is already used for about 43% of the work its graduates go into (High).
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Games Design
BA · The University of Cumbria · 3 years
CONTINUATION ALERT
25% of this course's students did not continue past year one. Worth asking the university about directly.
The pay story
- £24,000Median, 15 months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes)
- £17,000Median, 3 years out (LEO)
- £22,000Median, 5 years out (LEO)
That 15-month median sits at the 50th percentile of 1,089 Creative Arts and Design courses nationally (ties counted as half, so a course on the median never reads as below it).
Graduate voice
- 60%Found their work meaningful
- 50%Felt on track with their career
- 40%In professional-level work
Where the pay comes from
- 72 / 100Information Technology Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
- 65 / 100Web and Multimedia Design Professionals · 25% of graduatescards →
- 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
- 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
- 40 / 100Sales occupations · 15% 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).