Lifetime wealth, calculated

Some degrees make you rich.
Others make you happy.

Pick a degree and watch your lifetime wealth build from graduation to retirement. Real graduate salaries, tax, rent, house prices and inflation. No guesswork, no sales pitch.

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Lifetime net worth by degree
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Dentistry £2,815,411
Social Work £789,756
Music £378,726
The gap is bigger than you think
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A Dentistry graduate builds roughly £2,436,684 more by 65 than a Music graduate. Same three years of study, very different bank balance.

Pick a degree to run the numbers

Each one shows starting salary, the age you could buy a house, and net worth at retirement.

Applied
Business & Finance
Creative & Design
Education
Engineering
Health
Humanities
Law
STEM
Social Sciences

How the numbers work

Every chart is built from the same real figures, so two degrees are always compared fairly.

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Real graduate salaries

Median starting salary from the HESA Graduate Outcomes survey, plus mid-career figures from DfE LEO data.

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Tax and take-home

UK income tax, national insurance and student loan repayments come out before anything gets saved.

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Rent, then a house

You rent until you have saved a 10% deposit, then a 25-year mortgage builds equity.

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Inflation included

We show today's money and the nominal figure with long-run inflation applied.