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About Course Map

We believe choosing a university course should be based on data, not guesswork.

Our Mission

Course Map was built to solve a simple problem: choosing the right university course is one of the biggest financial decisions you'll ever make, but it's almost impossible to compare courses objectively.

We bring together official government data from 36 countries into a single, comparable picture of every course at every university, anywhere you want to study.

No marketing spin. No league table politics. Just the real data on what graduates earn, where they work, and whether students were satisfied.

Real Salary Data

Graduate salaries linked directly to HMRC tax records - not self-reported surveys.

Career Outcomes

See the exact job titles graduates end up in - not vague “employability” percentages.

Side-by-Side Compare

Put up to 4 courses head-to-head across 15+ metrics with automatic best-in-class highlighting.

Course Score

Our proprietary A+ to E grading system weighs earnings, satisfaction, and career outcomes.

Methodology

Course Score

Each course receives a score out of 100 from a weighted blend of graduate salary, student satisfaction, continuation, professional employment, and meaningful-work rates. The letter grade (A+ to E) maps to score bands.

Salary Percentiles

Salary data shows the median (50th percentile), lower quartile (25th percentile), and upper quartile (75th percentile). This gives a realistic range rather than a misleading single number. Data is sourced from Graduate Outcomes (15 months) and LEO (3 and 5 years).

Student Satisfaction

Satisfaction scores are averaged from 8 NSS questions covering teaching quality, learning opportunities, assessment, academic support, organisation, learning resources, learning community, and student voice. Each metric is a percentage of students who responded positively.

Data Suppression

When a course has fewer than 52.5 respondents or a low response rate, the data is suppressed by HESA to protect individual privacy. In these cases, we show an em-dash (-) rather than N/A to indicate the data exists but cannot be published.

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