Careers

All of our postgraduate courses can support your career ambitions. Whether you are looking to learn specialist skills and knowledge to augment your first degree, meet a career development target, or move in to an academic/research career, a postgraduate degree with the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences can help.

We have excellent relationships with many national and international companies who frequently contact us looking for new employees. Our alumni are based around the world including Hong Kong, Nigeria, Australia and the international energy industry.

Whichever course you study, you will experience:

  • our industrial partners giving guest lectures
  • using industry-standard software
  • analysing datasets and case studies from industrial or governmental organisations.

Students MSc dissertations and PhDs that are linked with industrial partners often give them further exposure into the professional world. In many cases these opportunities create valuable contacts and in some cases, a foot in the door with an employer.

Our students have access to the University's multi award-winning Careers Service with further support from the School:

  • Online jobs board that highlights graduate and PhD opportunities
  • Provide lists of companies you may want to apply to
  • Give you links to useful job-hunting websites such as earthworks-jobs.com.
  • Working with the Careers Service, we also run workshops during the year specifically for postgraduate students.

All of our taught postgraduate courses are professionally accredited. Amongst our accreditors are ICE, IStructE, IHT, CIWEM, RICS, and the Geological Society ensuring that your studies have a professional stamp of approval to help your career.