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Applied Linguistics - 1 - Pathways

Graduates from these courses are working in:

  • Global PR
  • Consultancies
  • Multinational companies
  • Higher education
  • Further study (Speech Language Therapy courses, and masters and doctoral programmes)
Applied Linguistics - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Finding experience to boost your CV in Year One and Two
  • Careers options with a degree in Statistics
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
  • Interview skills for Statistics students
  • Maths and Stats Careers Fair

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Explore the career journeys of Warwick Social Sciences alumni. See how their university experience opened doors across industries and imagine where a degree from Warwick could take you.

Applied Linguistics - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

You may decide to make use of the optional intercalated third year by organising a work placement. The University Careers Office can advise on potential work placement opportunities; however, it will be entirely your responsibility to find and apply for a work placement.

Applied Linguistics - 4 - Alumni Stories
Automotive Engineering - 1 - Pathways

By gaining skills ranging from mechanical design, vehicle attributes, electronic systems, manufacturing techniques, management, ergonomics and human perception of things such as noise, vibration and performance, you will graduate as a well-rounded automotive engineer equipped for a broad range of career options.

Graduates from these courses have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Arup
  • Airbus Defence and Space
  • Aston Martin
  • Atkins
  • Babcock International Group
  • BAE Systems
  • Delphi Technologies
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Facebook
  • GE
  • IBM
  • Jaguar Land Rover
  • Network Rail
  • NHS
  • Ricardo
  • Samsung Electronics
  • Tata Technologies
  • Vodafone

In addition to working as engineers and engineering professionals, other graduates have pursued roles such as:

  • Actuaries, economists and statisticians
  • Business and related associate professionals
  • Estimators, valuers and assessors
  • Finance and investment analysts and advisers
  • Production managers and directors in manufacturing
  • Programmers and software development professionals
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Biomedical Engineering- 1 - Pathways

Our graduates are especially well equipped to work in areas such as healthcare, pharmacology, medical device development and evaluation, and large-scale healthcare projects.

Graduates from these courses have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Arup
  • Airbus Defence and Space
  • Aston Martin
  • Atkins
  • Babcock International Group
  • BAE Systems
  • Delphi Technologies
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Facebook
  • GE
  • IBM
  • Network Rail
  • NHS
  • Ricardo
  • Samsung Electronics
  • Tata Technologies
  • Vodafone

In addition to working as engineers and engineering professionals, other graduates have pursued roles such as:

  • Actuaries, economists and statisticians
  • Business and related associate professionals
  • Estimators, valuers and assessors
  • Finance and investment analysts and advisers
  • Production managers and directors in manufacturing
  • Programmers and software development professionals
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Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies - 3 - Placements and work experience

All modules have embedded employability skills as the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies has decades of experience and connections with media, cultural and creative industries.

The course offers industry-ready strand of learning, teaching and assessment through the required core Industry modules.

Placements will be negotiated with media, cultural and creative industries through the networks the Centre has cultivated. Each placement, client brief or industry study will be developed over years two and three on a case-by-case and bespoke basis, depending on your interests and ambitions.

For example, you may wish to explore:

  • Technology, software companies and social media platforms
  • Broadcast, film and animation
  • Advertising, PR and Marketing
  • Archives, museum and heritage
  • Games and e-sports
  • Arts, creative and cultural organisations
Centre for Cultural & Media Policy Studies - 1 - Pathways

This innovative degree is designed to open a wide range of career opportunities in the media and creative industries.

At time of writing our first cohort of graduates (2020-2023) are entering the workplace, with over 80% currently progressing in media and creative careers. Previously, postgraduates from the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies have gone onto work in the following:

  • Art galleries
  • Audience development
  • Digital archives
  • Events
  • Festivals
  • Film and TV distribution
  • Freelance creative or media production
  • Global media and communication
  • Heritage commissioning art and cultural work
  • Media buying, marketing, planning, policy work, research, and tech start-ups
  • Museums
  • NGO, corporate or government communications
  • PR
  • Project management
  • Social media business and analytics
  • User experience and web development

Outside of media industries, graduate opportunities can be found in design, marketing, user experience, the services sector and manufacturing industries.

Centre for Lifelong Learning - 1 - Pathways

Where could a Centre for Lifelong Learning degree take me?

Dependent on the course you are studying, our students have gone on to roles such as:

  • Teacher: primary and secondary
  • Community worker
  • Social researcher
  • Manager of early years settings
  • Business development manager
  • Family support worker
  • Management trainee
  • Counsellor
  • Local government officer
  • Caseworker (MP)
Centre for Lifelong Learning - 2 - Support

The Student Support Team supports the pastoral and academic needs of our diverse student body, including:

Supporting the academic development of undergraduate and postgraduate students

Ensuring a learning experience of the highest quality, both at the University and in partner colleges.

Communicating with students in order to ensure a positive learning experience at CLL

Careers and Development

  • Careers planning
  • CV writing
  • Application forms
  • Cover letters
  • Interview tips
Centre for lifelong learning - 4 - Degree Apprenticeship Alumni Stories

Claire's story

"I reflect so much more effectively now, I am able to think deeply when applying theory into practice (I still have a long way to go), I feel that my confidence is growing and I work in a different way as to what I did before."

Claire Wiltshire, current student Read Claire's story

Emma's Story

"It's a course that makes me think about things from different perspectives and analyse certain things, so I feel that I've grown in my professional life, but also in my personal life. Now I don't seem to take things at face value and start to question everything in a way that can be constructive."

Emma Goodfellow, current student Read Emma's story

Civil Engineering - 1 - Pathways

Career destinations for our graduates often include working for consultants and contractors across the specialisms of structures, geotechnics, tunnelling and underground space, water engineering, transportation and energy, both in the private and public sector.

Graduates from these courses have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Arup
  • Airbus Defence and Space
  • Aston Martin
  • Atkins
  • Babcock International Group
  • BAE Systems
  • Delphi Technologies
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Facebook
  • GE
  • IBM
  • Network Rail
  • NHS
  • Ricardo
  • Samsung Electronics
  • Tata Technologies
  • Vodafone

In addition to working as engineers and engineering professionals, other graduates have pursued roles such as:

  • Actuaries, economists and statisticians
  • Business and related associate professionals
  • Estimators, valuers and assessors
  • Finance and investment analysts and advisers
  • Production managers and directors in manufacturing
  • Programmers and software development professionals
Classics & Ancient History- 1 - Pathways

Graduates from Classics courses have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Acturis
  • Cancer Research UK
  • Comic Relief
  • English Heritage
  • EY
  • John Lewis and Partners
  • KPMG
  • Teach First
  • The British Museum
  • Waitrose and Partners

They have pursued roles such as:

  • Archaeology related roles
  • Business and related associate professionals
  • Conference and exhibition managers and organisers
  • Finance and investment analysts and advisors
  • Legal associate professionals
  • Management consultants and business analysts
  • Marketing associate professionals
  • Teaching and other educational professionals
Classics & Ancient History - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant. They offer impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • What can you do with a Classics and Ancient History degree?
  • Careers in the Creative Industries
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
  • Next steps after your Classics degree... hear from our alumni
  • Networking for Classics students

Discover more about careers support at Warwick.

Classics & Ancient History - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

Many students take the chance to study abroad, either under the Erasmus scheme or in work placements. Our dedicated careers consultant is also able to provide support.

Classics & Ancient History- 4 - Alumni Stories
Computer Science - 1 - Pathways

Graduates from the Department of Computer Science in the past have entered careers in these industries and companies:

Automobiles and Aviation

  • British Airways
  • Ford Motor Company
  • Jaguar Land Rover

Computer Security

  • BAE
  • GCHQ

Computer Systems

  • ARM
  • Citrix
  • IBM

Consulting

  • Accenture
  • Deloitte
  • EY
  • KPMG

Consumer goods

  • M&S
  • Tesco
  • Unilever

Finance

  • Barclays
  • Bloomberg
  • Goldman Sachs
  • JPMorgan
  • Morgan Stanley

Research

  • CERN
  • Mintel
  • University of Warwick

Software Development

  • Apple
  • Amazon
  • D.E.Shaw
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Sega

They have pursued roles such as:

  • Software Engineer
  • Systems Analyst
  • Investment Analyst
  • Web Designer/Developer
  • Business Analyst
  • Actuary
  • Economist and Statistician
  • Computer Science Researcher
  • University Academic
  • Teacher
  • Entrepreneur
  • Start-up Owner
Computer Science - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Computing Your Career
  • Careers in Tech
  • Computer Science SME and Alumni Event
  • Women in Tech
  • CVs and applications for Computer Science students
  • Working in the Computer Games Industry
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Computer Science - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

If you want to spend a year in industry, we support you by promoting opportunities, hosting departmental careers fairs and offering one-to-one sessions with our departmental careers advisor. If you are an Intercalated Year student, you will be supported by your Personal Tutor and our Industrial Liaison Team during your year in industry. Students working in the UK are usually visited by academic representatives to review their development during the year.

Computer Science - 4 - Alumni Stories
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Department of Chemistry - 1 - Pathways

Our graduates are active in fields as diverse as:

  • Chemical Science
  • Sustainable materials
  • Drug Discovery and Pharmaceutical Development
  • Laboratory Technical Services and Leadership
  • Public Health
  • Business and Financial Analysis
  • Investment Management
  • Management Consultancy
  • Academic Research and Teaching
  • Medicine and paramedic
  • Secondary School Teaching

Our graduates have gone on to work for employers such as:

  • Amazon
  • Deloitte
  • GSK
  • HMRC
  • HSBC
  • KPMG
  • NHS Trust
  • Ovo Energy
  • Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Unilever
  • Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Department of Chemistry - 2 - Support

We have dedicated careers consultants who can support you with your career choices and skills to prepare you for recruitment processes. We offer one-to-one appointments and workshops to help you find a career path, find internship or work placements and hone your applications and interview technique. You can also attend tailored careers and networking events to connect with recruiters in your field.

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Department of Chemistry - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

Students in Chemistry are supported through our Department of Student Opportunity to gain experience during vacation periods in other industry sectors including teaching, finance, data science, law, consultancy, marketing and IT or technology.

We offer the distinctive opportunity to transfer across degree programmes, such as onto Chemistry with Industrial Placement or Chemistry with International Placement.

Undergraduate research

We have an Undergraduate Research Support Scheme which allows undergraduate students to work on an academic research project in Chemistry or another department during the summer vacation.

Department of Chemistry - 4 - Alumni Stories
Department of Economics - 1 - Pathways

Approximately 20% of our graduates decide to continue their studies by choosing a postgraduate degree in economics or a subject within a specialist area of economics, such as behavioural economics, development economics, management, marketing, finance or data science.

Careers in finance, economics and beyond

Our graduates have gone on to build successful careers across finance, economics and related fields. Typical roles include:

  • Economics and finance specialists: economists, assistant economists, graduate economic consultants, finance consultants, finance and investment analysts, equity and credit risk analysts, macro analysts
  • Business and advisory professionals: management consultants, business analysts, economic associate consultants, project management professionals
  • Data and technology roles: data analysts, data scientists, financial technology professionals
  • Additional pathways: marketing, business management, education, and quality assurance

Many graduates also secure places on competitive graduate schemes, taking up positions such as graduate analysts, assistant economists, or finance consultants, where they develop specialist expertise and leadership skills early in their careers.

Graduates from our Economics degrees have gone on to work for a varied range of employers, from consultancies, banking and finance to policy organisations and think tanks. Some such employers include:

  • Aviva
  • Bain and Company
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  • Bank of England
  • Barclays
  • Black Rock
  • Bloomberg
  • Citi Bank
  • Compass Lexecon
  • Cornerstone Research
  • Deloitte
  • Department for International Trade
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • EY
  • Fidelity Worldwide Investment
  • FTI Consulting
  • Goldman Sachs
  • HSBC
  • Investec
  • JP Morgan
  • KPMG
  • NatWest
  • Nomura
  • Ocado
  • PwC
  • Santander
  • UBS
  • Unilever
Department of Economics - 2 - Support

Our Department, along with the University’s Student Opportunity Team, supports career planning by presenting the diverse range of opportunities available during and after the degree. The Careers Team has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant who offers impartial advice and guidance together with tailored workshops and events throughout the year.

In addition, we have appointed within the Department an Academic Careers Coordinator to lead on specific activities to support your career planning, to make you aware of all the skills that employers are looking for and how these skills have been embedded into our modules.

Previous examples of workshops and events are Careers in Economics Fairs, Alumni Career Journeys events or interview skills workshops.

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Department of Economics - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

Voluntary Year Out

Students are permitted to take a voluntary year out in order to gain work experience. Student visa holders are asked to check their immigration status before considering such opportunities. We provide information on taking a voluntary year out and how to apply for it in the first year of your studies.

Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies - 1 - Pathways

Graduates pursued roles such as: 

  • Journalists 
  • Newspaper and periodical editors 
  • Publishers 
  • Creative directors 
  • Arts officers, producers and directors 
  • Authors, writers and translators 
  • Musicians and composers 
  • Teachers 
  • Advertising accounts managers 
  • Business sales executives 
  • Solicitors and legal associate professionals 
  • Management consultants and business analysts 
  • Marketing associate professionals 
  • Academics and researchers 
Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies - 2 - Support

In addition to a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support students studying English Literature, students also take an Academic Enrichment Programme in their first year focused on career skills, academic writing, and how to prepare for a future career while studying. Our Careers consultant also offers impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include: 

  • Careers following your English and Comparative Literary Studies Degree 
  • Discovering Careers in the Creative Industries 
  • Careers in Publishing and Journalism 
  • Freelancing 
  • Careers in the Public Sector 
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year 

Find out more about careers support at Warwick. 

Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies - 3 - Placements and work experience

You can find and apply for a work placement in the UK or abroad, and the English and Comparative Literary Studies careers consultant is also able to provide support.

Studying (or even working) in another country can add to your skill set and broaden your outlook – both within study and beyond. All students have the opportunity to apply for a year abroad during their second year, which transforms your degree into a four-year course. You’ll need to discuss this with your tutors of course, but we encourage you to consider exploring this option.

Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies - 4 - Alumni testimonials
Department of History - 1 - Pathways

Throughout your time on your degree, you will develop a range of transferable skills which are highly valued by graduate employers. These typically include the following: excellent written and communication skills; ability to research and analyse large amounts of data; intellectual rigour and independence in presenting findings; ability to construct and communicate arguments; to work independently and as part of a team; to deliver work to agreed deadlines; capacity to solve problems, think creatively and approach problems with an open mind; knowledge and understanding of different factors that impact on individuals and groups in society.

If you would like to practically apply your degree in your future career your skills and knowledge could be used, for example, to catalogue and preserve information as an archivist; you could manage collections of historical artefacts as a museum curator; or you could take up post-graduate study for an academic career, with the possibility of going on to share your expertise through writing and engaging with public audiences. The problem-solving and analytical skills typically developed on your degree are also relevant in just about any industry which has a focus on current society and future developments - particularly in the fields of law, business, finance, politics, academia, culture and heritage.

A significant number of our graduates choose to go on to further study. Typical course choices might include PhDs, PGCEs (teacher training) and Masters courses. Some decide to delve further into subjects and develop their expertise in themes they have found stimulating at a degree level. Others find that their undergraduate degree has provided them with a sound basis for entry to postgraduate professional qualifications in archive management, museum studies, marketing, human resources, law, journalism, PR, and accountancy to name but a few.

Department of History - 2 - Support

The University offers extensive guidance on career opportunities via our dedicated Careers Service. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. You can sign up for a wide range of workshops from developing confidence and interview techniques to learning how to articulate what you have to offer to make effective applications. Online resources are also available, including how to draft CVs and cover letters, practice aptitude and psychometric tests, practice online interviews, and other resources to help you research job opportunities.

Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Careers in the Creative Sector
  • Legal Careers for non-law students
  • Career in the Public Sector
  • How to write effective applications and CVs
  • Legal Assessment Centres - practice makes perfect
  • Meet the Professionals - Working in human rights and civil liberties
  • Let’s discuss interviews
  • Full details and sign up to events/workshops can be found on the careers page

You will also be able to get in touch with the History Department careers consultant at any point during your degree. Whether you have no idea what you want to do or have a clear direction in mind, you can take advantage of this focused advice and guidance. Appointments are confidential and tailored to the needs of the individual.

Department of History - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

What placement and work experience activities are available?

You will also be able to get in touch with the Department of History careers advisor at any point during your degree (and two years after you graduate). Whether you have no idea what you want to do, or a clear direction in mind, you can take advantage of this focused advice and guidance.

Department of History - 4 - Alumni Stories
Department of Philosophy - 1 - Pathways

Study skills will be built into your core modules in the first year. In those modules, you will develop skills in close reading, essay writing, exam technique, critical thinking and presentation. As well as the opportunity of individual careers appointments, there are a wide range of events and workshops – including small workshops for people with no career ideas, speaker events for people interested in a certain sector, and large career fairs for organisations wanting to recruit a large number of graduates each year.

Graduates from our Philosophy single and joint honours degrees have gone on to pursue careers as:

  • Authors, writers and translators
  • Legal professionals
  • Marketing professionals
  • Management consultants and business analysts
  • Chartered and certified accountants
  • Teaching and educational professionals
Department of Philosophy - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Identifying Your Skills, Strengths and Motivators for Philosophy Students
  • Thinking about Work Experience for Philosophy Students
  • Philosophy with Placement Year – “My Experience” Sessions
  • Sector events with industry and alumni speakers, for students who want to pursue a career in a specific sector such as Banking and Finance, Consulting, Charities and Campaigning, Law and the Public Sector
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Department of Philosophy - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

You may also choose to apply for an intercalated year, spent either studying abroad or on a work placement. Work placements provide an opportunity for you to develop skills, learn from industry professionals, and explore potential future career paths. This extends the duration of your degree to four years and will be reflected in your degree qualification (for example, BA Philosophy with Intercalated Year, or BA Philosophy with Work Placement).

Department of Philosophy - 4 - Alumni Stories

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Department of Physics - 1 - Pathways

Graduates from this course have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Deloitte Digital
  • Brunei Shell Petroleum
  • British Red Cross
  • EDF Energy
  • Civil Service
  • Deutsche Bank

They have pursued roles such as:

  • IT Professionals
  • Finance and investment analysts
  • Scientists
  • Researchers
Department of Physics - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated Careers Consultant. They offer impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Career options with a Physics Degree
  • Careers in Science
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
  • Physics Alumni Evening
  • Careers and Employer networking event for Physics students

Discover more about careers support at Warwick

Department of Physics - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

Summer placements and projects are encouraged. All students can apply for research vacation projects - small research projects supervised by a member of academic staff.

Department of Politics & International Studies - 1 - Pathways

We have a dedicated careers consultant who can support you with your career choices. We offer one-to-one appointments and workshops to help you find a career path, internship or work placement.

Graduates from these courses are working in:

  • Government and politics (national, regional and international)
  • Public affairs
  • Education
  • Charity and campaigning
  • Media
  • Public relations
  • Journalism
  • IT
  • Banking and finance
  • Recruitment
  • Hospitality
  • Advertising

Our graduates have gone on to work for employers such as:

  • United Nations
  • BBC Television
  • Houses of Parliament
  • OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • Human Rights Watch
Department of Politics & International Studies - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant offering impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. In addition, PAIS students have access to guest lecturers, careers information and placement support. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Your future awaits - the many things you can do after your degree in the PAIS department
  • Careers in Government and Politics
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
  • Careers Q&A sessions
  • Assessment Centres and Interviews: an overview of what to expect for PAIS students

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Department of Politics & International Studies - 3 - Placement

Within our Department you can find and apply for a work placement in the UK or abroad, and our dedicated careers consultant is also able to provide support.

Department of Politics & International Studies - 4 - Alumni Stories

See how the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick helped Divya and Sasi reach their career goals, providing the skills and connections to succeed. Discover how Warwick could shape your future.

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Department of Psychology - 1 - Pathways

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

They have pursued roles such as:

  • Clinical psychologists
  • Counsellors
  • Teachers
  • Educational psychologists
  • Health psychologists
  • Business, research and administrative professionals
  • Financial and accounting technicians
  • Marketing professionals
  • Management consultants
  • Business analysts

Our graduates go on to Master’s degrees and PhDs at prestigious universities in the UK and overseas. Further study opportunities include our own programmes:

  • MSc Clinical Applications of Psychology (with work placement)
  • MSc Behavioural and Data Science
  • MSc Behavioural and Economic Science
  • MSc Psychological Research PhD / MPhil / MSc in Psychology (Research)
  • Clinical Psychology Doctorate programme (with Coventry University)
Department of Psychology - 2 - Support

Throughout your degree, you’ll focus on a range of skills that will prepare you for a broad variety of career opportunities. We’ll provide you with the specialised support to help identify those opportunities.

We have a dedicated Careers Consultant, who is on hand to offer practical sessions and one-to-one guidance to help you decide what you want to do after graduation. Your degree will open a variety of doors not just in psychological research, neuroscience or mental health, but also in areas like law, education, business, finance and advertising.

Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Psychology Finalists – next steps
  • Careers with Children and Young People
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Department of Psychology - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

We offer a work placement module to final year students, and the opportunity for students to undertake a work placement between the second and third year.

Students find their own placements and are supported to take a year out of study to work. Our students have completed placements with organisations across all sectors: in private companies, government departments, schools, charities, research agencies and other host organisations. They worked in various roles, including as NHS placement students, support workers, teaching assistants, youth mentors, human resources trainees, marketing and sales interns and many more.

Our students can also take up a variety of work experience opportunities alongside their studies or during holidays and are supported in this.

There may be additional course costs incurred by students who opt to take an intercalated year either to study abroad or undertake a work placement opportunity. Such costs would vary depending on the location or placement and whether there were any additional requirements such as a DBS check.

Department of Sociology - 1 - Pathways

Where a Sociology or Sociology and Criminology degree can take you:

  • Professional roles in various national and international NGOs, civil society and charity organisations
  • Civil service careers
  • Researchers and research analysts for state and independent bodies
  • Media and communication industry
  • Advertising and Marketing
  • Accounting and Finance careers
  • Academic careers and doctoral scholarships for further study
  • Teaching Careers
  • Social Work
  • Careers and Employability Assistants
  • Customer Representatives and HR Graduates
  • Directorate Administrators
  • Event Administrators
  • Resident Tutors
  • Management Trainees
  • Marketing and Development Coordinators
  • Senior Sales Consultants
Department of Sociology -2 - Support

Helping you find the right career 

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Working for More than Profit
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
  • Your Sociological future: Sociology Alumni Evening
  • My Sociological Future- What next? Career planning for undecided Sociology finalists
  • Effective CVs and Applications

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

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Department of Sociology - 3 - Alumni testimonials
Department of Sociology - 3 - Placements and work experience

We want our students to be attractive to a wide range of employers and equally strong candidates if applying for further study.

Graduate recruiters tell us that, along with a degree, they also like to see candidates with work experience, evidence of involvement in extra-curricular activities and the ability to reflect on and articulate their skills and achievements. We want to support you in these endeavours and aim to provide opportunities for you to develop your employability skills and to gain advice and support when planning your future career.

Department of Statistics - 1 - Pathways

Recent graduates of the Statistics Department have pursued job roles such as:

  • Actuaries, economists and statisticians
  • Software developers
  • Chartered and certified accountants
  • Finance and investment analysts
  • Teachers
  • Telecommunication designers
  • Data scientists and engineers
  • Academics

UK firms that have employed recent Warwick graduates from the Mathematics and Statistics Departments include:

  • Adder Technology
  • Astra Zeneca
  • Amazon
  • BlackRock International
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Brainlabs
  • Civil Service
  • Conduent
  • Darktrace
  • Deloitte
  • Department of Health
  • eBay
  • Ford Motor Company
  • Fore Consulting
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Government Actuaries
  • Investec
  • Jane Street Capital
  • KPMG
  • Lloyds
  • MBDA
  • Metaswitch
  • Met Office
  • Ministry of Justice
  • RenaissanceRe (Syndicate 1458)
  • Oxford Clinical Trials Unit
  • Softwire
  • Solid Solutions
  • Sword Apak
  • Ten10
  • Towers Watson
  • Xafinity
Department of Statistics - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Finding experience to boost your CV in Year One and Two
  • Careers options with a degree in Statistics
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
  • Interview skills for Statistics students
  • Maths and Stats Careers Fair

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Department of Statistics - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

You may additionally choose to spend an intercalated year in an approved industry, business or university between your last two years at Warwick, subject to availability and to satisfactory academic performance.

Design Studies - 1 - Pathways

Studying design at Warwick can open up a wide range of career opportunities for students, in an array of industries and sectors. This range of career reflects the fact that we teach design as a whole, not just in specialisms.

By developing your design mindset and skillset, you will be ideally placed to enter into the competitive job market and have immediate impact as innovators and changemakers.

Whilst there are many options available to you, including further study, we often group potential destinations of our students into two areas:

Design and Sustainability Industries 

  • Service Designer​
  • UX Designer​
  • Social Designer​
  • Concept Designer​
  • Design Consultant​
  • Design Leadership Advisor​
  • Strategical Designer
  • Co-Design Specialist​
  • Sustainability Specialist​
  • Systemic Designer
  • ​Educator​
  • Business Strategist​
  • Entrepreneur (Social + Commercial)​
  • Design Thinking Facilitator​
  • Systems Thinking Consultant​
  • Design Administrator​
  • Organisation Design Consultant​
  • Strategic Designer​
  • Inclusion Director​
  • Policy Analyst

Areas of Practice 

  • Social Housing​
  • Commercial Research ​
  • Humanitarian Agency
  • Government and Governance​
  • Production and Manufacture​
  • Legal and Public Policy
  • Creative Industries - general​
  • Finance​
  • Innovation Sector​
  • Tech and Business
Design Studies - 2 - Support

We have a dedicated Employability and Placement Manager who will provide you with one-to-one careers guidance.

You will also have access to the University’s Student Opportunity resources (including careers counselling, employment advice, and job fairs).

Co-curricular Certificates

We offer our students the unique opportunity to complete certificates in skills which have been identified by employers as being vital for success in the workplace. These skills are formally recognised through the award of a certificates of achievement upon successful completion and are noted on your HEAR (Higher Education Achievement Report).

Find out more about careers support at Warwick

Design Studies - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

Within Design Studies we encourage you to undertake a work placement during your degree. This will enable you to engage in the world of work and learn about the professional environment. It’s an opportunity for you to apply theory to practice, develop skills, learn from industry professionals as well as explore a future career path. This ultimately supports you in developing your employability skills and prepares you for future employment.

Learn more about our Careers support in Design Studies

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Economics - 4 - Alumni Stories

"The department has prepared me for life after Warwick by giving me the opportunity to foster relationships and develop skills. The many people I have talked to have not only given me insights into different industries and specific knowledge into various roles but also opened doors for opportunities I was unaware of. For example, the department's strong connection to numerous employers brings in great careers fairs and promotes alumni engagement for many who have gone through the same paths and seen life beyond. The broad availability of topics in the economics degree, be it Time Series, Financial Economics or Environmental Economics, coupled with options outside the department (such as Computer Science and in Warwick Business School) opens doors for many specialised industries in finance and beyond."

Anthony Pak, BSc Economics 2025.

Get the student perspective by reading our student blogs.

Economics and Management - Placements and Work Experience

Work Placement Year

You will have the option to undertake a work placement during your third year, giving you the opportunity to apply your skills and knowledge in a real work setting before returning to Warwick for your final year of studies. Examples of placements undertaken by Management students at Warwick Business School in the past include Accenture, BMW, Deloitte, EY, HSBC, L’Oreal, Microsoft, Samsung, Toyota, Vodafone. 

When you embark on your placement, you will receive support from your Year Away Director (based in Warwick Business School), ensuring a structured and supportive environment throughout your time away. 

If you are successful in gaining a work placement, your degree will become a four-year programme and, if you pass the Year Away in Context module, the title of your course changes to add the suffix 'with Placement Year' to the existing title (e.g. 'BSc Economics and Management with Placement Year'). 

Voluntary Year Out

Students are permitted to take a voluntary year out in order to gain work experience. Student visa holders are asked to check their immigration status before considering such opportunities. We provide information on taking a voluntary year out and how to apply for it in the first year of your studies.

Education Studies - 1 - Pathways

Graduates from these courses have gone on to work in a wide range of sectors, including careers in:

  • Primary School teaching
  • Secondary School and Post-16 teaching
  • Arts and Heritage work
  • Community-based, Charity and NGO work
  • Family Liaison and Social Work
  • Training and Development roles
  • Social Research
  • Human Resource Management
Education Studies - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year.

Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Meet Your Alumni: real-life career stories from the Department of Education Studies Alumni
  • Careers with children and young people
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year

Find out more about careers support at Warwick

See how the Department of Education at Warwick helped Chloe reach their career goals, providing the skills and connections to succeed. Discover how Warwick could shape your future.

Explore the career journeys of Warwick Social Sciences alumni. See how their university experience opened doors across industries and imagine where a degree from Warwick could take you.

Education Studies - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

This degree also gives you the opportunity to experience education practice in real-world settings through an international or UK based placement. This includes schools, party parliamentary groups, charities, early years settings, healthcare and youth services.

You can take a work-based placement module (core) in Year 2, with a minimum of 15 hours on placement.

Find out more about our work placements

Education Studies - 4 - Alumni Stories
Electrical and Electronic Engineering - 1 - Pathways

Graduates from our courses have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Arup
  • Airbus Defence and Space
  • Aston Martin
  • Atkins
  • Babcock International Group
  • BAE Systems
  • Delphi Technologies
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Facebook
  • GE
  • IBM
  • Network Rail
  • NHS
  • Ricardo
  • Samsung Electronics
  • Tata Technologies
  • Vodafone

In addition to working as engineers and engineering professionals, other graduates have pursued roles such as:

  • Actuaries, economists and statisticians
  • Business and related associate professionals
  • Estimators, valuers and assessors
  • Finance and investment analysts and advisers
  • Production managers and directors in manufacturing
  • Programmers and software development professionals
Engineering - 1 - Pathways

Warwick students are especially equipped to work in multi-disciplinary organisations in functional teams which create solutions incorporating (for example) mechanical and electrical components, or on large-scale civil projects where interdisciplinary thinking is required to understand (for example) the impact of the London Olympics on public transport.

Graduates from our courses have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Arup
  • Airbus Defence and Space
  • Aston Martin
  • Atkins
  • Babcock International Group
  • BAE Systems
  • Delphi Technologies
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Facebook
  • GE
  • IBM
  • Network Rail
  • NHS
  • Ricardo
  • Samsung Electronics
  • Tata Technologies
  • Vodafone

In addition to working as engineers and engineering professionals, other graduates have pursued roles such as:

  • Actuaries, economists and statisticians
  • Business and related associate professionals
  • Estimators, valuers and assessors
  • Finance and investment analysts and advisers
  • Production managers and directors in manufacturing
  • Programmers and software development professionals
Engineering - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant offering impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Options in Engineering
  • Meet an Engineer
  • Engineering, Science and Technology Fair
  • Considering a PhD in the STEM Subjects
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Engineering - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

We have a dedicated Student Engagement Officer who will encourage you to gain relevant work experience through a summer or year-long placement.

You may choose to take an intercalated year in industry, research or study abroad between years two and three (BEng and MEng) or between years three and four (MEng only). If you choose to take an intercalated year this will be reflected in your degree title, and add a year to your degree programme.

Engineering Business Management- 1 - Pathways

Reflecting the realities of the multidisciplinary business management, our curriculum integrates both the technical and business context. You will find yourself prepared for a wide range of career opportunities on positions linking business with engineering (across many industries and business sectors) and engineering business management consultancy in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.

Graduates from these courses have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Arup
  • Airbus Defence and Space
  • Aston Martin
  • Atkins
  • Babcock International Group
  • BAE Systems
  • Delphi Technologies
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Facebook
  • GE
  • IBM
  • JLR
  • Network Rail
  • NHS
  • Ricardo
  • Samsung Electronics
  • Tata Technologies
  • Vodafone

In addition to working as engineers and engineering professionals, other graduates have pursued roles such as:

  • Actuaries, economists and statisticians
  • Business and related associate professionals
  • Estimators, valuers and assessors
  • Finance and investment analysts and advisers
  • Production managers and directors in manufacturing
  • Programmers and software development professionals
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Film and Television Studies -1 - Pathways

We have embedded employability skills throughout our Film Studies degrees. There are also many opportunities for applied learning and assessment across our modules. In particular, our optional final year modules offer training in:

  • Critical writing on film
  • Digital editing
  • Film production
  • Curation and festival design

Your career

Graduates from these courses have pursued careers such as:

  • Programmers
  • Curators
  • Arts officers
  • Producers
  • Directors
  • Authors
  • Writers
  • Translators
  • Business and related associate professionals
  • Journalists, newspaper and periodical editors
  • Photographers
  • Audio-visual and broadcasting equipment operators
  • Public relations professionals
  • Educational professionals
Film and Television Studies - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Working in Radio, Film and TV
  • Discovering Careers in the Creative Industries
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
  • Introduction to Freelancing

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Film and TV - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

You can find and apply for a work placement in the UK or abroad, and the Film and Television Studies careers consultant is also able to provide support.

Studying or even working in another country can add to your skillset and broaden your outlook. All students have the opportunity to apply for a year abroad, which transforms your degree into a four-year course. You’ll need to discuss this with your tutors of course, but we encourage you to consider exploring this option.

Film & Television Studies - 4 - Alumni testimonials
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Global Sustainable Development - 1 - Pathways

As a GSD graduate, you have a wide range of career pathways available to you. This is demonstrated by the variety of work placements that our students have completed.

GSD students have secured work placements with employers from the private, public, and third sectors. These include (but are not limited to):

  • Research institutions
  • Governmental bodies
  • Non-governmental organisations
  • Intelligence agencies
  • Housing
  • Environmental consultancies

They have undertaken diverse roles such as:

  • Marketing Assistant
  • Sustainability Officer
  • Intelligence Analyst
  • Researcher

GSD is also accredited by the Institute for Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP), a global professional body for individuals and organisations working, studying or interested in sustainability and the environment. As a student in GSD, you can receive a free student membership of ISEP (see details below for joining) and upon completion of the course, will qualify for Graduate Membership of ISEP and the ability to use the GradIEMA title, after your name.

Transferable skills

You will learn valuable transferable skills that will help you with your employment prospects, including:

  • Analysing and problem solving: Through your study of sustainable development principles and models, you will learn how to extract the essential features of complex systems, providing useable frameworks for evaluation
  • Critical thinking: You will assess arguments, make judgements, formulate reasoned debates and generate feasible solutions
  • Communication: You will develop advanced communication skills that enable you to communicate with a variety of audiences and in different settings
  • Research: You will undertake an integrated programme of research skills training, teaching you how to source, evaluate and use different forms of information and data
  • Organisation: Through a rigorous assessment schedule and a compulsory dissertation module in your final year, you will learn the essentials of time management, prioritisation and how to be well organised
  • Collaboration: You will have plenty of opportunities to work with others and nurture your emotional intelligence, developing a professional attitude
  • IT: You will have received foundational software training
  • Design Skills: You will have acquired creative design skills in a range of areas
Global Sustainable Development - 2 - Support

Helping you find the right career

We have a dedicated Employability and Placement Manager who will provide you with one-to-one careers guidance. They work in collaboration with employers, so you will be supported in securing appropriate work placements. You will have access to specialist pre-placement advice, guidance and preparation, as well as on-going support during your placement.

You will also have access to the University’s Student Opportunity resources (including careers counselling, employment advice, and job fairs).

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Global Sustainable Development - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

We encourage you to undertake a work placement as part of your degree.

You will have the opportunity to take part in short and long work placements. These support you in developing your employability skills and prepare you for future employment.

  • Apply theory to practice
  • Explore a future career path
  • Learn about the professional environment
  • Learn from industry professionals

We will also support you in sourcing your own work placements outside of the options below.

Year-long work placement

You can complete a four-year degree and your work placement will take place in your third year. The work placement can take place inside or outside the UK.

Short work placement

As part of the Certificate of Professional Communication, you will undertake a four-week work placement during the summer.

Global Sustainable Development - 4 - Alumni Stories

Hear from some of our alumni about what they're up to now and how studying GSD at Warwick has prepared them for life after graduation:

GSD graduate case studies

You can also read four case studies from current students who recently completed work placements and presented at last year's School for Cross-Faculty Studies Successful Work Placement Fair 2025.

Watch our video below from Maddie, a recent graduate from Politics and Global Sustainable Development:

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History of Art - 1 - Pathways

Graduates from these courses have gone on to work in a wide range of sectors, including careers in:

  • Art galleries and Museums
  • Publishing
  • Educational establishments
  • Heritage and conservation organisations
  • Research
  • The Law
  • Business, Marketing, and Advertising
  • Civil Service
  • Fashion

They have pursued careers such as:

  • Curator
  • Gallery Manager
  • Artistic Director
  • Journalist
  • Barrister
  • Web Developer
  • Management Consultant
  • Events Planner
  • Art Consultant
  • Interior Designer
  • Architectural Historian
  • Headteacher
  • Art Critic and Correspondent
  • Business Analyst
  • Writer and Translator
History of Art - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you on a one-one basis. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • History of Art Alumni event
  • Careers in the Creative Sector
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
  • Securing Work Experience
  • Career Planning and Making Applications

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

History of Art - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

Work experience inside the art world

Gaining relevant work experience during the vacations is highly recommended. The History of Art department is developing links with a number of institutions which may be able to provide work experience opportunities during vacations.

Learn more on the History of Art website

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Law School - 1 - Pathways

Studying law provides a platform to a wide range of career opportunities within the legal profession and beyond.

Our law graduates train for the Bar and work for leading law firms such as:

  • Freshfields
  • A&O Shearman
  • Hogan Lovells
  • Clifford Chance
  • Linklaters

They also go on to work for other major employers such as:

  • Goldman Sachs
  • PwC
  • UK Civil Service
  • Financial Conduct Authority
  • Microsoft

And Third Sector organisations like:

  • British Red Cross
  • Unlocked Graduates
  • Think Tanks and Social Enterprises
Law School - 2 - Support

Helping you find the right career

Warwick Law School has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Warwick careers fairs including the Law Fair
  • Law firm presentations and employer panels such as Working in Civil Liberties and Human Rights Law; Working within In-House Law
  • Insight programme at the Crown Prosecution Service
  • Law workshops have included e.g. Becoming a Solicitor, The journey to the Bar, Working for the West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service, and LPC or SQE

Workshops on the legal recruitment process including CVs, covering letters, applications and preparing for interviews and assessment centres with law firms.

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Law School - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

Engaging in activities outside your degree enables you to develop important employability and personal skills and position yourself for graduate opportunities. Vacation Schemes and other work experience are available at Law Firms. Many Barristers' Chambers offer short periods of work experience (mini-pupillages). There are opportunities to gain experience working In-house and there are a wide range of virtual work experience programmes for law. Law firms value a wide range of experience including involvement in extra-curricular activities and volunteering.

Extracurricular activities

Warwick provides a wealth of extracurricular opportunities including over 250 societies (cultural, sporting, academic, campaigning and performance), volunteering, part-time work and work experience. Warwick Volunteers provides opportunities to take part in both one off and ongoing volunteering projects and many students also secure part-time jobs both on and off campus.

Live legal projects

The Law School has a strong tradition of working with students on live legal projects.

Warwick Law in the Community (LinC)

This programme cultivates opportunities for you to gain practical experience in law while also making a meaningful contribution to our community locally, nationally and internationally.

We work collaboratively with various organisations to create opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students to gain practical experience in law and actively contribute to advancing social justice. We offer opportunities in more traditional forms of legal advice and practice, but we also look beyond these to expose students to alternative ways of doing and thinking about law, including writing, research and journalism, advocacy, education and digital technology.

LinC offers volunteering opportunities through our Strategic Social Justice Clinic projects and the Immigration and Asylum Clinic which run throughout the year in conjunction with Central England Law Centre. We also run projects with a number of other external partner organisations. Students who have volunteered for either of our Clinics or on any other LinC projects are eligible to apply for our paid summer internships, which offer interns the opportunity to work with partner organisations on a range of exciting and in-depth projects.

US Student Death Penalty Project

We have operated a US Death Penalty Project in association with attorneys in the USA for over 20 years.

Lacuna Magazine

Our in-house Lacuna Magazine provides the chance to be involved in journalistic writing, editing and publication.

Student Societies

Student-led law societies also run competitions (mooting, negotiation, client interviewing) and their own Pro Bono projects.

University support for internships

Warwick provides financial assistance to some students who secure short periods of unpaid experience, such as work shadowing through its work experience bursaries and provides information on work experience and internships through its myAdvantage careers platform and Law School online Student Hub.

Meeting recruiters

Leading graduate recruiters and law firms are keen to meet our students to provide information on their opportunities including open/insight days, internships, vacation and graduate schemes. They deliver presentations, workshops and take part in careers fairs and other events. Each year the Law Fair brings together law firms providing students with an opportunity to network with graduate recruiters and alumni. Information is made available to students via the myAdvantage opportunities database, Law School website and social media platforms.

The Law School has its own dedicated careers consultant who helps students identify and apply for work experience and other opportunities.

Liberal Arts - 1 - Pathways

Graduates from Liberal Arts (BA) have pursued a wide range of careers and further study. As a Liberal Arts student, you will equally have a range of career opportunities available to you. The variety of opportunities will depend on your chosen pathway.

Liberal Arts graduates tend to gravitate towards research-intensive and/or leadership roles, where they can use their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Our Liberal Arts (BA) graduates have worked in a diverse range of fields and sectors, with recent graduates in the public, private, and third sectors.

Find out more about Warwick Liberal Arts careers.

Liberal Arts - 2 - Support

We have a dedicated Employability and Placement Manager in our department who provides careers guidance. They work with employers to source work placement opportunities for our students and offer guidance to students before and during placements.

The University's Student Opportunity team also supports students to develop employability skills and guidance on careers options.

Find out more about careers support at Warwick

Co-curricular certificates

We offer a range of unique certificates outside of the curriculum to further enrich your professional development. In the first year, you can complete certificates in Carbon Literacy, Data Literacy and Professional Communication.

Explore our range of certificates

Liberal Arts - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

As part of your Liberal Arts degree, you will also have the opportunity to undertake a work placement. This will enable you to develop your skills in a professional environment whilst improving your employability prospects. Work placements allow you to apply theory to practice and learn from industry professionals. The two work placement options are:

1. Year-long work placement

You will complete a four-year degree and your work placement will take place in your third year. The work placement can take place in or outside of the UK and will be formally recognised on your Higher Education Achievement Report.

2. Short work placement

We also support students to undertake shorter work placements throughout the year.

Our students have been successful in securing work placements with employers from the private, public, and third sectors. These employers include research institutions, governmental bodies, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), media organisations, fashion companies, environmental consultancies, financial consultancies, and many others. They have undertaken diverse roles such as Marketing Assistant, Researcher, Project Officer, and Editor.

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Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering - 1 - Pathways

After graduation you will typically find employment within advanced industries as diverse as aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, electronics and pharmaceuticals, as well as the more traditional light- and heavy- engineering sectors.

Graduates from these courses have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Arup
  • Airbus Defence and Space
  • Aston Martin
  • Atkins
  • Babcock International Group
  • BAE Systems
  • Delphi Technologies
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Facebook
  • GE
  • IBM
  • Network Rail
  • NHS
  • Ricardo
  • Samsung Electronics
  • Tata Technologies
  • Vodafone

In addition to working as engineers and engineering professionals, other graduates have pursued roles such as:

  • Actuaries, economists and statisticians
  • Business and related associate professionals
  • Estimators, valuers and assessors
  • Finance and investment analysts and advisers
  • Production managers and directors in manufacturing
  • Programmers and software development professionals
Mechanical Engineering - 1 - Pathways

You will have the chance to apply your new skills through projects at various points in the degree, in which you will develop highly sought-after skills in project management and communication, alongside the ability to research, design and develop mechanical engineering products and systems.

After graduation Warwick’s Mechanical Engineering students are well equipped to work in modern, multidisciplinary organisations and are enabled to solve modern technological problems.

Graduates from these courses have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Arup
  • Airbus Defence and Space
  • Aston Martin
  • Atkins
  • Babcock International Group
  • BAE Systems
  • Delphi Technologies
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Facebook
  • GE
  • IBM
  • Network Rail
  • NHS
  • Ricardo
  • Samsung Electronics
  • Tata Technologies
  • Vodafone

In addition to working as engineers and engineering professionals, other graduates have pursued roles such as:

  • Actuaries, economists and statisticians
  • Business and related associate professionals
  • Estimators, valuers and assessors
  • Finance and investment analysts and advisers
  • Production managers and directors in manufacturing
  • Programmers and software development professionals
Media - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant. They offer impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year.

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School of Life Sciences - 1 - Pathways

Graduates on our courses have gone on to work for employers including:

  • AstraZeneca
  • NHS
  • Civil Service
  • KPMG
  • Johnson and Johnson
  • Tesla
  • ALS: Sarstedt Ltd
  • Novartis
  • Universities and Schools

They have pursued roles such as:

  • Graduate-entry medicine students
  • NHS scientists
  • Biomedical research and development scientists
  • Scientific publishing professionals
  • Laboratory technicians
  • Teachers
  • Business, marketing and accountancy professionals
  • Postgraduate student or researcher

Find out more about career opportunities from Life Sciences.

School of Life Sciences - 2 - Support

Throughout your time in the School of Life Sciences your personal tutor, and careers and placements staff will work in conjunction with Student Opportunity to support you to find the right career. Through our unique taught tutorial system, you put into practice a range of scientific and transferable skills. As a Life Sciences student you will develop the hands-on laboratory, problem solving and research skills desired by employers. Our graduates are highly employable and go on to a range of scientific and non-scientific careers.

Our unique careers and placements service is tailored to your academic subject area. Our team offer a range of activities within the School to help you to consider your career once you graduate. Opportunities include:

  • One-to-one careers advice appointments within the School
  • Termly networking events featuring presentations from Life Sciences alumni and employers about a range of careers
  • The option to undertake a full year industrial placement or study abroad year as part of your degree
  • A wide range of summer work placement opportunities in industry and the School
  • Careers talks throughout the degrees to ensure that you are thinking about your next steps throughout the programme
  • Links with Warwick alumni to present to you the potential pathways of your degree
  • We run a successful Medical School Application Support Programme (MASP) to prepare those interested in applying for graduate entry medicine. Since the programme started 4 years ago we have achieved remarkable success with 83% of MASP students getting an interview for Medical School and 66% being offered a place.

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

School of Life Sciences - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

Within the School of Life Sciences, all of our degrees offer a placement year option of either a year’s work experience or a year’s study abroad, and our in-house placement officer provides support.

School of Life Sciences - 4 - Alumni Stories
School of Modern Languages & Cultures - 1 - Pathways

A languages degree will equip you with skills applicable to a wide variety of different jobs and career paths. Our students often go on to careers using their languages after graduation. They also develop transferrable communicative and analytical skills that are highly sought after by employers.

Graduates from Modern Language courses have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Amazon
  • British Airways
  • Civil Service
  • Grayce Consulting
  • HM Revenue and Customs
  • HSBC
  • Ipsos Mori
  • Lidl
  • NBC Universal
  • Save the Children International
  • The Department for International Trade

They have pursued careers such as:

  • Business and financial project management professionals
  • Chartered and certified accountants
  • Financial accounts managers
  • Human resources and industrial relations officers
  • Management consultants and business analysts
  • Public services associate professionals
  • Teachers and other educational professionals
School of Modern Languages & Cultures - 2 - Support

Our School has a dedicated, professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events to boost your employability. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • What are you doing after Warwick? Career planning for final year language students
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
  • Completing effective CVs and Application Forms for students from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures
  • Reflecting on Your Year Abroad
  • Languages Alumni Evening

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

School of Modern Languages & Cultures - 4 - Alumni Stories
Systems Engineering - 1 - Pathways

The Systems Thinking approach that gained from this course equips engineers to work on holistic problems where there are conflicting needs and complex interactions.

Warwick students are especially equipped to work in multidisciplinary organisations in functional teams which create systems incorporating mechanical and electrical components or on large-scale projects where systems thinking is required to understand (for example) the impact of the London Olympics on public transport.

Graduates from these courses have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Arup
  • Airbus Defence and Space
  • Aston Martin
  • Atkins
  • Babcock International Group
  • BAE Systems
  • Delphi Technologies
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Facebook
  • GE
  • IBM
  • Jaguar Land Rover
  • Network Rail
  • NHS
  • Ricardo
  • Samsung Electronics
  • Tata Technologies
  • Vodafone

In addition to working as engineers and engineering professionals, other graduates have pursued roles such as:

  • Actuaries, economists and statisticians
  • Business and related associate professionals
  • Estimators, valuers and assessors
  • Finance and investment analysts and advisers
  • Production managers and directors in manufacturing
  • Programmers and software development professionals
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Theatre and Performance Studies - 1 - Pathways

With a diverse range of careers in the creative and cultural sectors and beyond, our extended family of alumni are testimony to the fact that the sky is your limit with a Theatre and Performance Studies degree from Warwick.

We are exceptionally proud of our extended family of alumni and the diverse career paths that they've taken after their degree.

Recent graduates work within the arts and creative industries as actors, directors, producers, screenwriters, set designers, and as arts administrators.

They work for organisations such as:

  • Merlin Entertainments
  • Sadler’s Wells
  • The Birmingham Hippodrome
  • The National Theatre
  • The Royal Court Theatre.
  • The RSC
  • The Southbank Centre
  • Ticketmaster

Recent graduates work beyond the sector in:

  • Marketing
  • PR
  • Journalism
  • Recruitment and HR
  • Education
  • The Law
  • The Civil Service
Theatre and Performance Studies - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. These events often include alumni who have taken various career paths. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

    • ‘I Want to Be a Producer’: Careers in Producing
    • Becoming a Director
    • Careers in Acting
    • Discovering Careers in the Creative Industries
    • Careers in Radio, Film and Television
    • A DIY Guide to Setting Up and Running a Theatre Company

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Theatre and Performance Studies - 3 - Placements and work experience

Employability is embedded in Warwick’s Theatre and Performance Studies degree allowing you to think about your future from an early stage.

You will encounter performers, directors, playwrights and arts administrators from the industry throughout your degree in seminars and practical workshops.

The optional Theatre and the Creative Industries module brings professionals and experts into the classroom on a weekly basis to discuss the principles and practices for areas such as:

  • Running an arts venue
  • Programming and commissioning work
  • Setting up and running your own theatre company
  • Making touring arrangements
  • Identifying funding opportunities

A placement or internship is also offered as part of the course. In recent years these have been hosted by Dash Arts, Rosie Kay Dance Company, Birmingham REP, Fierce Festival (for live art), Trestle (Mask Theatre, St Albans), Cannes Film Festival, and elsewhere.

Alongside their degree, many of our students gain valuable industry experience at Warwick Arts Centre, working in a wide range of roles including Youth Theatre Leaders, Performance Stewards, or as interns for the Marketing and Programming Teams.

Students also regularly produce shows at Warwick Arts Centre as part of their activity in student societies, meaning that they are working in a professional arts venue from the get-go.

Theatre and Performance Studies - 4 - Alumni testimonials
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Warwick Business School - 1.1 - Careers

Graduates from Warwick Business School have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Barclays
  • Central Bank of Malaysia
  • Deloitte
  • Deutsche Bank
  • EY
  • Global Finance and Business Management Graduate
  • HSBC
  • JP Morgan
  • KPMG
  • Microsoft
  • Natwest
  • PwC

They have pursued careers such as:

  • Account Analyst
  • Audit Associate
  • Assurance Associate
  • Banking Analyst
  • Commercial Bank Management
  • Financial Service Consultant
  • Fund Investment Intern
  • Investment Banker
  • M&A Executive
  • Tax Analyst
Warwick Business School - 1 - Pathways

Graduates from Warwick Business School have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Barclays
  • BP
  • Central Bank of Malaysia
  • Deloitte
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Dyson
  • EY
  • Goldman Sachs
  • HM Revenue and Customs
  • HSBC
  • JP Morgan
  • KPMG
  • Natwest
  • Petronas
  • PwC
  • Santander

They have pursued careers such as:

  • Audit Associate
  • Assurance Associate
  • Banking and Capital Markets Associate
  • Corporate Risk and Broking Graduate Analyst
  • Fund Investment Intern
  • Investment Banking Analyst
  • Investment Consultant
  • Real estate consulting
  • Wealth and Personal Banking Graduate
Warwick Business School - 2 - Support

Helping you find the right career

We have our own dedicated careers team at Warwick Business School called WBS CareersPlus and Employer relations.

Personalised support

Our CareersPlus and Employer Relations team provides specialised careers services solely for Warwick Business School students including:

  • 1-2-1 careers coaching
  • Career planning and preparation workshops
  • Employer events and networking opportunities
  • Work placements and internships

Bespoke employer events organised specifically for our students have seen the likes of Deloitte, EY, JLR, L’Oreal, J.P.Morgan, Barclays, IBM, Google visit Warwick Business School, providing students with great networking opportunities and links to top local, national and international brands.

Events and group workshops

You can also attend group workshops and employer events throughout the year. Our workshops cover all aspects of the job application process, from creating your CV to preparing for interviews and assessment centres. Tailored sessions, such as ‘What job is right for you?’ can help you to plan your future career and actions.

Past examples include:

  • Writing an effective CV
  • How to network with employers skills workshop
  • Internship and Placement Year events with employers
  • Careers Fairs and informal networking opportunities with employers
  • Sector events with industry speakers, for students who want to pursue a career in a specific sector such as Marketing, Audit, Consulting, Technology, Consumer Goods and Retail, Finance and Banking
Warwick Business School - 4 - Alumni Stories
Warwick Manufacturing Group - 1.1 - Pathways

Robotics engineering skills with AI are in high demand globally and a multi-disciplinary approach to engineering is vital as we work towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This degree sets you up to thrive in these kind of environments, developing innovative products, systems, infrastructure, and processes in both physical and virtual environments.

Employers are seeking engineers who not only have the technical know-how, but also demonstrate soft skills like teamwork and problem-solving (IETLink opens in a new window). Our programme is designed to foster soft skills in every module, helping you succeed in a competitive job market.

This programme equips you for roles across a range of industries, including:

  • Aerospace
  • Agriculture
  • Automotive
  • Construction
  • Consumer goods
  • Consultancy
  • Finance
  • Manufacturing
  • Marine
  • Healthcare
  • Security
Warwick Manufacturing Group - 1 - Pathways

Cyber Security professionals are in high demand by businesses worldwide, meaning you’ll have access to a wealth of potential career routes in a highly mobile profession when you graduate.

Career paths could include technical, managerial, and strategic paths in public, private, or charity sectors; enabling social services, commerce, healthcare, transportation, environmental protection and more generally, a secure digital society.

Our graduates have gone on to work for a variety of employers, including:

  • Accenture
  • PWC
  • KPMG
  • Deloitte
  • IBM
  • Ministry of Defence
  • HP
  • Cisco
  • Tata Consultancy Services

They have pursued roles such as:

  • Graduate Cyber Security Consultant
  • Information Security Analyst
  • Technology Analyst
  • IT Security and Governance Officer
  • Security Project Manager
  • Network Consulting Engineer
  • IT Risk and Resilience Manager
  • Senior Investigation Officer

Graduates from this programme have also progressed into various government/other security vetted roles.

Warwick Manufacturing Group - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Career planning for WMG students
  • Options in Engineering
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
  • Effective Applications for WMG students
  • Researching Employers for WMG students

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Warwick Mathematics Institute - 1 - Pathways

Recent graduates have pursued job roles such as:

  • Actuaries, economists and statisticians
  • Software developers
  • Chartered and certified accountants
  • Finance and investment analysts
  • Teachers
  • Telecommunication designers
  • Data scientists and engineers
  • Academics

UK firms that have employed recent Warwick graduates from the Mathematics and Statistics Departments include:

  • Adder Technology
  • Amazon
  • BlackRock International
  • Brainlabs
  • Civil Service
  • Conduent
  • Darktrace
  • Deloitte
  • Department of Health
  • eBay
  • Ford Motor Company
  • Fore Consulting
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Government Actuaries
  • Investec
  • Jane Street Capital
  • KPMG
  • Lloyds
  • MBDA
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Metaswitch
  • Met Office
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Optiver
  • Oxford Clinical Trials Unit
  • RenaissanceRe (Syndicate 1458)
  • Softwire
  • Solid Solutions
  • Sword Apak
  • Ten10
  • Towers Watson
  • Xafinity
Warwick Mathematics Institute - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Finding experience to boost your CV in Year One and Two
  • Careers in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
  • Interview skills for mathematics students
  • Maths and Stats Careers Fair

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Warwick Mathematics Institute - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

After Year Two, students can take a year’s placement to experience mathematics in action. The job must be deemed to provide learning experiences related to the degree course. A satisfactory placement leads to the award of a ‘BSc with Intercalated Year’ (and often to a potential job offer after graduation). We encourage you to speak to our Student Opportunity team for advice relating to finding a placement.

Warwick Mathematics Institute - 4 - Alumni testimonials
Warwick Medical School - 1.1 - Pathways

Students will develop a set of highly transferable skills that are sought after by employers including interpersonal skills; critical thinking; ability to be able to synthesise evidence and information across disciplines and from multiple perspectives; leadership and team working; ability to construct novel solutions or transfer solutions across settings to solve problems; time management; project planning and delivery; digital literacy and the ability to scrutinise digital solutions from different viewpoints; analytical and numerical skills and advanced communication skills, including the ability to inform multiple and varied audience types.

Employer destinations include: 

  • Public health
  • NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme
  • DHL Future Leaders Graduate Scheme; Healthcare logistics
  • Prescient Healthcare
  • Corlytics
  • Royal Air Force
  • NHS
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Evelyn Partners

Further study destinations include:

  • Graduate Entry Medicine
  • Public Health
  • Health Economics, Policy and Management
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Therapeutic Radiology
  • Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Programme
  • Research assistantships

Find out more about what our graduates have gone on to do on our graduate profile page.

Warwick Medical School - 1 - Pathways

In July 2024 we celebrated the successes of our inaugural Integrated Natural Sciences students. Graduates from similar courses have gone on to work for organisations including NHS, AstraZeneca, PMG, Diabetes UK and Taylor and Francis Scientific Publishing. Careers have varied across a wide array of areas, such as: Biotechnology Computing Philanthropy Medicine. Engineering Medical research.

Warwick Medical School - 2.1 - Support

Thinking about Graduate Entry Medicine?

We're pleased to be able to offer Health and Medical Sciences students access to our Medical Application Support Programme (MASP), which provides aspiring medics with all of the knowledge and information required to navigate each element of the recruitment and selection process. Students can independently access a wealth of resources, updated annually, covering everything from entry requirements to admissions tests.

Alongside this, bespoke workshops provide enhanced support on essential elements of the process, often with current medical students providing invaluable insight and the benefit of their experience. Students are also able to access individual support from the Senior Careers Consultants for the Medical School and School of Life Sciences.

Hear from Molly, who joined the MB ChB at Warwick after graduating from Health and Medical Sciences.

Warwick Medical School - 2 - Support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

  • Career Society at Medical School Event
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
  • UG to PG Study Information Fair

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

Warwick Medical School - 4.1 - Alumni Storm
Warwick Medical School - 4 - Alumni stories
Warwick Writing Programme - 1 - Pathways

Graduates from our course have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Archant
  • BBC
  • Bloomsbury Publishing
  • British Council
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Channel 4
  • Civil Service
  • The Forward Poetry Foundation
  • Pan Macmillan
  • The Poetry Society
  • Penguin/Random House
  • Royal Opera House
  • The Society of Authors
  • The Sunday Times
  • Teach First

They have pursued roles such as:

  • Authors, writers, dramatists, poets, and translators
  • Journalists, newspaper, and periodical editors
  • Publishers
  • Creative directors
  • Arts officers, producers, and directors
  • Musicians and composers
  • Teachers
  • Marketing associate professionals
  • Academics and researchers
  • Higher Education administrators
Warwick Writing Programme - 2 - Support

Our staff have excellent links not only with other writers but also with publishing houses, literary journals and agencies, with national and regional organisations such as the Arts Council, PEN and with other creative writing programmes both in Britain and in the USA. We also host the prestigious Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

Our School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures also has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Examples of workshops and events include:

  • Discovering Careers in the Creative Industries
  • Careers in Publishing and Journalism
  • Freelancing
  • Careers in the Public Sector
  • Warwick careers fairs throughout the year

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

WBS - 1.2 - Careers

Graduates from Warwick Business School have gone on to work for employers including:

  • American Express
  • Amazon
  • AB Inbev
  • Barclays
  • British Airways
  • Danone UK
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Deloitte
  • EY
  • JP Morgan
  • KPMG
  • McKinsey and Company
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Procter and Gamble
  • PwC
  • Tesco
  • Shell
  • Vodafone

They have pursued careers such as:

  • Analyst Risk Control Technician
  • Audit Associate
  • Communications Consultant
  • Commercial Banking Analyst
  • Consulting Associate
  • Corporate Finance Analyst
  • Corporate Tax Associate
  • Entrepreneur and Strategic Manager
  • National Account Manager
  • Private Equity Analyst
  • Procurement Graduate
  • Project Manager
  • Research and Marketing Analyst
  • Start-up Co-founder
  • Technology Analyst
WBS - 1.3 - Careers

Graduates from Warwick Business School have gone on to work for employers including:

  • Amazon
  • Barclays
  • Bank of America
  • Bank of China
  • British Airways
  • BlackRock
  • Deloitte
  • EY
  • Goldman Sachs
  • JP Morgan
  • Procter and Gamble
  • PwC
  • Transport for London
  • Turner & Townsend
  • Visa

They have pursued careers such as:

  • Account Manager
  • Associate consultant
  • Brand Representative
  • Business Consultant
  • Commercial Bank Management Associate
  • Credit Risk Specialist
  • Finance Graduate
  • Graduate Consultant
  • Investment Banker
  • Management Consulting Analyst
  • Marketing and Commercial Graduate
  • Media Executive
  • Private Equity Analyst
  • Project Manager
  • Revenue Executive
  • Tax Associate
WBS - 3 - Placements and work experience

Whether you're certain of your career path or still exploring your options, our dedicated Careers Plus and Employer Relations teams are here to support you at every stage. From CV writing and interview workshops to helping you find exciting roles and connect with top employers, they'll equip you with the tools and experiences to develop versatile, in-demand skills that will help you stand out globally.

Find out more about Placement Years

Find out more about careers support at WBS

WMG - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

We encourage students to gain short UK and international experiences, such as summer placements and other short-term opportunities.

WMS 3.1 - Placements and work experience

You can arrange an internship during the summer vacation. Learn more about our current students who have undertaken summer internships.

WMS - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

You can arrange an internship during the summer vacation. Learn more about our current students who have undertaken summer internships.

Writing - 3 - Placements and Work Experience

We encourage students to gain short UK and international experiences, such as summer placements and other short-term opportunities.

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