Where could your degree subject take you?
Explore our subject-specific pages to get insight, ideas and inspiration about future possible roles and sectors related to your degree subject
Your degree opens more doors than you might think.
Because of the wide range of transferable skills you build at university, many graduate‑level jobs are open to students from any degree subject – currently around 70%*. This means your subject can lead to a much wider variety of career paths than you may expect.
The pages linked below will help you to explore possible roles, sectors, employers, professional bodies and ways to get experience while you study.
Architecture and built environment
Biological sciences
Business, economics, management, marketing, accounting and finance and maritime and logistics
What can you do with an accounting and finance degree? What can you do with a business degree? What can you do with an economics degree? What can you do with a human resource management degree? What can you do with a marketing degree? What can you do with a maritime business degree? What can you do with an operations and supply chain management degree?
Chemistry
Computing
Creative arts: art, illustration and photography
Design: interior/product and furniture design, graphic design and game arts/digital design
Earth, geography and environment
Education and teaching
Engineering
What can you do with a civil and coastal engineering degree? What can you do with an electrical and electronic engineering degree? What can you do with an electronic and computer engineering degree? What can you do with a mechanical and marine engineering degree? What can you do with a robotics degree?
Hospitality, tourism and events management
Humanities: anthropology, English and history
Law, criminology and policing
Marine
Mathematical sciences
Media and filmmaking
Medicine, dentistry and biomedical sciences
Nursing, midwifery and allied health professions
What can you do with a dietetics degree? What can you do with a midwifery (pre-registration) degree? What can you do with a nutrition, exercise and health degree? What can you do with a nursing degree? What can you do with a paramedic science degree? What can you do with a podiatry degree? What can you do with a physiotherapy degree? What can you do with a social work degree? What can you do with an optometry degree? What can you do with an occupational therapy degree?
Performing arts
Psychology
Sociology, international relations and politics
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*Data from Student Minds, 2024