What can I do with a degree in Psychology?
Why Warwick?
- Our graduates are some of the most targeted by the UK’s top graduate employers (annual Graduate Market report produced by High Fliers Research)
- Warwick is consistently ranked in the top 10 of major university league tables (Times and Sunday Times; Guardian)
- Employment destinations of recent graduates*: discoveruni.gov.uk/
What do graduate recruiters look for?
- A good degree from a good university
- Work experience
- Involvement in extra-curricular activities
- The ability to describe and articulate your unique achievements and skills
About Psychology
The Psychology degree at Warwick is British Psychology Society (BPS) accredited. It develops specific skills which graduate recruiters welcome and are transferable to a wide range of sectors. Psychology opens a number of specialist career paths such as Clinical, Forensic, Educational, Counselling psychology as well as being valuable in a huge range of other sectors. Psychology skills are useful in data analyst marketing, management and finance roles.
What do Psychology graduates do?
Graduates from these courses have gone on to work for employers including:
- NHS
- Cancer Research UK
- EY
- Hewett Recruitment
- IBM
- John Lewis and Partners
- Kuehne + Nagel
- The Forward Trust
- Teach First
Graduates work as:
- Clinical psychologists
- Counsellors
- Teachers
- Educational psychologists
- Health psychologists
- Business, research and administrative professionals
- Financial and accounting technicians
- Marketing professionals
- Management consultants
- Business analysts
Further study undertaken by graduates includes:
- Msc Clinical Mental Health Sciences
- MSc in Forensic Psychology
- MSc in Occupational Psychology
- MSc in Investigative Psychology
- MSc in Clinical applications of psychology
- MSc in Counselling
- PGCE Early Years
- GDL
What our graduates say
"The importance of the student voice is central to the psychology department at Warwick, and it is this community spirit that makes studying Psychology at Warwick a unique experience. My undergraduate study has provided me with a multifaceted approach to psychological study and cleverly combines all aspects of the subject to provide students with an insight into the wider applications and importance of psychology across several domains. Through a plethora of support from the most excellent researchers in their field, alongside receiving continual career guidance throughout my time at Warwick, I decided to pursue my aspirations to become a clinical psychologist. With Warwick upholding an outstanding reputation as a university, and the psychology department offering highly regarded postgraduate opportunities, I felt extremely fortunate to be offered a place on the MSc in Clinical Applications of Psychology. This course entails a six-month clinical research placement, and not only has my undergraduate degree provided me with the skills to undertake the challenging nature of this course, but I am left assured that the support received at Warwick is paramount to student success."
Tayla Hurlock – Post Graduate Student MSc Clinical Applications of Psychology
Opportunities available at Warwick include:
Careers support from our professionally trained staff, opportunities to meet recruiters and attend events, help finding work experience and free careers support after graduation.
Derived from the HESA Graduate Outcomes survey, carried out approximately 15 months after successful completion. Contains HESA Data: Copyright Jisc 2024. Jisc cannot accept responsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived by third parties from its data.
*discoveruni.gov.uk/ includes information from the national Graduate Outcomes survey, carried out approximately 15 months after graduates complete their course. For some career paths, graduates need to gain relevant experience, often at non-graduate level. It may therefore take some graduates longer than others to secure a graduate-level job.