BA English Literature
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature. Core topics include Research Methods. The course includes an Independent Research Project in the final year, alongside a writing retreat at a country house in mid Wales where students develop their dissertations. The department is based in Aberystwyth, near the National Library of Wales.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB-BCC IB: 30-28
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What students say
Based on about 10 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 77%
- Learning opportunities: 69%
- Assessment and feedback: 77%
- Academic support: 83%
- Organisation and management: 70%
- Learning resources: 89%
- Student voice: 62%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 30 students who started
- Continued on course: 80%
- Left higher education: 20%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 5%
What graduates do next
Based on about 13 graduates who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 65%
- Working and studying: 15%
- Further study: 20%
Most common jobs
- Administrative occupations: 15%
- Teaching Professionals: 15%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 15%
- Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations: 15%
- Sales occupations: 15%
- Find their work meaningful: 50%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 50%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 45%
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 20 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 95%
- Other HE qualification: 5%
Modules
- Ancestral Voices
- Critical Practice
- American Literature 1800-2000
- 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
- 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
- Short stories: Grit and Candour
- TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
- '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
- Reading Theory / Reading Text
- Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
- Haunting Texts
- Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
- Literatures of Surveillance
- Post-Colonial African Literature in English
- 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 Horror
- Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English Literature 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 at Aberystwyth University do next?
100% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA English Literature at Aberystwyth University?
77% 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 at Aberystwyth University?
The typical offer is BBB at A level. The average entrant had 127 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA English Literature at Aberystwyth University?
80% of students continued into their second year, and 20% left higher education.