| Students/graduates often ask - 'what can I do with my degree?'.
Generally the answer is 'lots of things' as many jobs are open to graduates
of any discipline.
If you are looking for ideas about what to do with your degree you might
want to look at the information below.
What can you do with your degree?
Some general statistics about graduate destinations
and our annual Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education report.
Destination information-
subject by subject
Find out what Edinburgh graduates from your subject
area have done. In most cases you can see what graduates from your course
have done for the last 3 years (we collect this data every year).
The Options series
This is useful but more general information in a
series written and researched by Careers Advisers. (e.g. Your degree
in Chemistry or English and some general trends of careers with
these subjects.
What Do Graduates Do? [Scotland]
Aims to provide information about the destinations
approximately six months after graduation of first-degree, Masters and
doctoral graduates who graduated from Scottish Higher Education institutions
in 2005.
What
do graduates do? [UK]
Information on the destinations of graduates across
the UK (including Scotland) from 2006 six months after graduation.
What can you do with your degree?
When you choose to study a vocational subject such as law or engineering,
you are likely to have some ideas about the type of work directly related
to your degree.
However, if you are taking a course in an arts/humanities subject, you may
feel your options for what to do next are less well defined. (If you are
in this position you may find it useful to look at our online
career
planning programme) In both cases there are many jobs directly and indirectly
related to your degree, as well as jobs open to graduates of "any discipline".
What are recent graduates doing with their degrees?
It is always interesting to discover what graduates from previous
years have gone on to do after graduation. Overall around 66% take up jobs
in the UK and abroad, 23% enter full-time study or training, 2% are doing
voluntary work and 5% are "not available for employment", most
of whom have taken time out to travel. Around 4% are believed to be unemployed
six months after graduation (2006/2007 survey).
You can see our most recent survey of graduate destinations (from the
University of Edinburgh) here.
Destinations of
Leavers from Higher Education 2007/ 200787 Report (PDF document*)
Paper copies available for reference in careers
service.
* You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to be able to see PDF files - you can
download it for free from this site:
Options Series
Another potential useful source of destination/careers information is the 'Options Series' which gives an overview of the typical areas of work graduates
from the main university courses might consider (e.g. 'Your degree in Chemistry'
etc).
Find out if your degree subject is covered
here.
Options information leaflets (takeaway paper copies) are also available
in the careers service.
What Do Graduates Do? [Scotland]
Aims to provide information about the destinations approximately six months
after graduation of first-degree, Masters and doctoral graduates who
graduated from Scottish Higher Education institutions in 2005.
The information outlines those who are in work (including what type of
work), those undertaking various forms of further study, or who are
unemployed. WDGD Scotland looks at the picture for Scotland regardless of
course of study, but also breaks it down by subject area (or ‘faculty’ for
the postgraduate sections).
In addition, articles are included to help the reader gain a better
understanding of the regional economies around Scotland, the impact of
gaining a degree and how students can get the most out of their degree in
the future.
Please note this is the latest data available.
Reference copies are available in the Careers Service.
A PDF version is also available.
*What Do
Graduates Do? [Scotland]
PDF Version (Please note this is 59 pages)
* You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to be able to see PDF files - you can
download it for free from this site:
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