Employability

Professionally accredited degrees

Right from the start, you will be exposed to industry. 

Our degrees are unique in the UK, having dual accreditation from:

• the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
• the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (CICES)

Industrial contact

Our professionally accredited degree programmes provide you with industry exposure in a number of ways:

• placements
• projects
• industry prizes
• competitions
• guest lectures
• site visits
• careers support
• careers fairs
• Life During and Beyond Geomatics

We will support your engagement with industry through our:

• Professional Bodies
• Industrial Advisory Boards
• Academic Leads
• Industrial Liaison Managers
• Careers Service Marketing Professionals
• Business Development Managers
• Alumni

GENIE

Held at the start of each academic year, our GENIE event brings our students and industrial partners together. It runs very much like a trade show. It attracts professional bodies, trade groups, and commercial organisations from across Europe.

Regular exhibitors include IBM, Leica Geosystems, Ordnance Survey, BP and many more.

Graduate destinations 

A degree from the School of Engineering will open up a world of opportunities in careers ranging from groundbreaking research and consultancy to business and management, in the UK and Europe. Destinations have included:

• Scopus
• Subsea 7
• Mott MacDonald
• Fugro
• IBM
• DSTL
• Malcolm Hughes
• Trimble
• Murphy
• Leica Geosystems
• Met
• Plowman Craven
• BP
• Schlumberger
• Arup
• Mott Macdonald
• Environment Agency