BA English Literature and Creative Writing
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and English with Creative Writing. Core topics include Research Methods. The course includes a foundation year and a final-year writing retreat at a country house in mid-Wales. Students have access to the National Library of Wales, which receives a copy of every book published in the UK.
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Entry requirements
A level: Available to those who are studying for, or who have completed Level 3 qualifications (eg, A-Levels or BTEC diploma) and to mature-aged candidates without formal qualifications who have suitable background education, experience and motivation. IB: Available to those who are studying for, or who have completed Level 3 qualifications (eg, A-Levels or BTEC diploma) and to mature-aged candidates without formal qualifications who have suitable background education, experience and motivation.
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What students say
Based on about 14 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 78%
- Learning opportunities: 65%
- Assessment and feedback: 76%
- Academic support: 87%
- Organisation and management: 71%
- Learning resources: 92%
- Student voice: 64%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 30 students who started
- Continued on course: 90%
- Left higher education: 10%
What graduates do next
Based on about 6 graduates who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 50%
- Further study: 30%
Most common jobs
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 20%
- Administrative occupations: 15%
- Sales occupations: 15%
- Teaching Professionals: 15%
- Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 50%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 10%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 15%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 120 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 8%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 4%
- East Midlands: 4%
- West Midlands: 21%
- East of England: 8%
- London: 10%
- South East: 8%
- South West: 10%
- Wales: 24%
- Scotland: 2%
- Northern Ireland: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 35 students who started
- A levels: 95%
- Baccalaureate: 5%
Modules
- How to be a Student 1
- How to be a Student 2
- Information in a Post-Truth World
- Introduction to Humanities
- Representing the Other: Cultures and Clashes
- The "Othered" Migrant: Social Science Perspectives
- Understanding Change - Environment, People, Places
- Beginning Creative Writing
- Critical Practice
- American Literature 1800-2000
- Ancestral Voices
- Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- Introduction to Poetry
- Language Awareness for TESOL
- Literature And The Sea
- Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
- Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
- Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- Adventures with Poetry
- Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
- Literary Geographies
- Literary Modernisms
- Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- Literature since the '60s
- Reading the Classroom: from the Nursery to the University
- Shaping Plots
- Short stories: Grit and Candour
- TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
- Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- Writing Selves
- 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
- Place and Self
- Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- Independent Research Project
- Crisis Writing
- Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
- Poetry for today
- Writing Crime Fiction
- Writing Horror
- Writing and Place
- Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
- Haunting Texts
- Literatures of Surveillance
- Post-Colonial African Literature in English
- Reading Theory / Reading Text
- Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
- The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
- Victorian Childhoods
- Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English Literature and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University earn?
The median salary is £23,000 after 15 months, £18,500 after 3 years, £22,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £18,000 and £27,000. The £22,500 median after five years is £5,500 less than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA English Literature and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University do next?
80% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA English Literature and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University?
78% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA English Literature and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University?
The average entrant had 112 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA English Literature and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University?
90% of students continued into their second year, and 10% left higher education.