Career Paths
While you are a student in the School of Earth and Environment, we will encourage you to reflect and engage on your longer-term career aspirations from the outset. To enhance student employability and facilitate success we provide:
- Dedicated career development modules
- Direct entry onto our 1-year vocational MSc courses (if you achieve at least a 2:1 in your degree)
- Full support finding, securing and participating in 12-month industrial placements
- Real world case studies to show the applied nature of the academic teaching
- A highly successful bespoke Earth and Environment Careers Fair
- External/Industry facing speakers on many modules
- The opportunity to “drop-in” to see a member of the Careers Centre staff within the School.
Where are our Earth Science graduates working now?
Our Earth Sciences graduates are always in demand among companies that value teamwork skills, independence, numeracy and scientific literacy. They enjoy rewarding career opportunities around the world in the petroleum and mining industries and in environmental consultancy. Our employment statistics are comparable with, or better than, any similar department in the UK with graduate opportunities in:
- Engineering geology
- Geoenvironmental careers
- Hydrocarbon/petroleum industry
- Mineral exploration
- Hydrogeology
- Contaminated land
- Waste management
- Forensic science
- Teaching
- Other areas which require excellent graduate skills
Where are our Environment graduates working now?
Our Environment graduates find environmental career opportunities as businesses strive to curb pollution and as legislation creates a market for consultancy services and regulatory bodies. Government statistics show that the environment sector is the fastest-growing in the UK economy and our environmental degrees will prepare our graduates for professional life through modules that give experience of real-life projects. Graduates with environmental expertise can choose a career in:
- Environmental monitoring, protection and engineering
- Conservation
- Transport planning
- Environmental and air quality monitoring
- Energy/Resource management for business and governments, both in the UK and overseas.
- Ecology
- Law
- Waste management
- Research
- Information analysis
- Accountancy
- Environmental science
- Consultancy
Something completely different...
As well as providing a vocational route towards discipline-specific careers all of our programmes provide excellent training for the wider job market. Our students develop skills that are sought after by a wide range of employers. Many students go on to use the skills they have developed during their degree in jobs which might not relate directly to the subject studied. Here are a selection:
- Architectural Technician
- Assistant Contracts Manager
- Business Service Manager
- Buyer/Seller
- Commercial Manager
- Community Development Officer
- Credit Manager
- Equalities and Human Rights Officer
- Events Manager
- Financial Advisor
- Logistic Planner
- Management Consultant
- Operations Assistant
- Procurement Graduate
- Project Officer
- Recycling Promoter
- Retail Management Trainee