Frequently asked questions

Yes, for many courses. University programmes set subject requirements alongside grades. In Uganda, public universities weigh A-level subjects by how relevant they are to the programme: two essential subjects count three times, one relevant subject twice and one desirable subject once.

In Kenya, KUCCPS places students on government-sponsored degree programmes using the KCSE grades in each programme's cluster subjects.

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Yes. Under the weighting system in Makerere University's Notes to Schools for 2026/2027, all O-level subjects are weighed: 0.3 points for each distinction, 0.2 for each credit and 0.1 for each pass, added to the weighted A-level points.

To be considered at all, applicants need at least two A-level principal passes obtained at the same sitting.

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A cut-off point is the lowest score of the students admitted to a programme in a given intake. It comes from the number of places and the scores of that year's applicants, so it changes from year to year.

Makerere University publishes cut-off points for government-sponsored and private places, and its Notes to Schools list three years of past cut-offs for each programme.

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The UCAS Tariff turns grades from many qualifications (A levels, the IB Diploma, Scottish Highers and others) into points, so they can be compared.

Not every UK course uses Tariff points. Many make offers in grades instead, so check each course's entry requirements on UCAS.

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The National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) licenses higher education institutions in Uganda and accredits their programmes. It publishes the lists of registered institutions and accredited programmes.

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Recognition is decided by the country (and often the institution or employer) where you want to use it, not the country that issued it. Most countries have a national recognition body or information centre for this.

UNESCO's Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education, adopted in 2019, sets shared principles for fair recognition between the countries that ratify it.

ISCED, UNESCO's international classification of education, describes qualifications by level (for example level 6 for a bachelor's degree), which helps compare systems.

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Only from official publishers: national statistics offices (such as the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and the UK Office for National Statistics), government salary scales (such as Uganda's public service salary structure), legal minimum wages, and the International Labour Organization's ILOSTAT database.

Each figure is shown in the currency, period (hour, month or year) and year it was published in, with a link to its source. We do not use estimates from salary-survey or job sites.

Pay data by country →

Usually not. Most official figures are averages or percentiles across everyone in a job, including people with many years of experience. Only published entry scales, such as the lowest step of a government salary grade, show starting pay, and we label those separately.

A legal minimum wage is the lowest amount an employer may pay, not a typical salary.

We keep each figure in the currency its source published it in, so it can be checked against the source. International employers such as the World Bank Group and the United Nations publish their scales in US dollars, so those stay in dollars.

It searches a network of careers built from published sources: the main qualifications for each career, career moves recorded in our career guides, related occupations from the US O*NET database, and skills that occupations share in the EU's ESCO classification.

Routes are ranked by the time their steps are known to take. Moves based only on shared skills are marked as less certain, and a route uses at most three of them.

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Often not. Occupations share many skills; O*NET and ESCO both record the skills and knowledge each occupation uses, which shows how much of what you already do carries over.

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