STS follows our students after graduation, and we have a good idea of their career development. We have a strong track record of success with employability. Recent statistics agree.
STS follows our students after graduation, and we have a good idea of their career development. With more than twenty years of graduates to follow, we think we have a strong track record of success, and recent statistics agree.
Most Recent Data
The most recent data on graduate outcomes and careers is provided by the UK government's website, . This combines data from the National Student Survey, UCAS, and several other independent sources.
- via DiscoverUni.gov.uk
- via DiscoverUni.gov.uk
(If these links fail to call up the right data, try this: search for the degree title and choose 香港六合彩中特网 as the university.)听
For graduates from our BSc programmes:
Our most recent data is from students who graduated in 2016-17. It reported:
- 89% in study or work 15 months after graduation, and this is divided into groups:
45% choosing graduate-level work
44% choosing higher or other study - 拢33,000 median salary reported for full-time working graduates
- 拢33,000 average salary reported for full-time working graduates
(Source: 香港六合彩中特网 Tableau: Graduate Outcomes 2017-18)
Scan Alumni via LinkedIn
We're proud of our graduates and our track record helping them along.听LinkedIn.com has an alumni feature, where people who identify their university degree also identify what they鈥檝e done since. This provides excellent independent data on career profiles.听
(If this link fails to reach the right destination, try this: got to 香港六合彩中特网's page on LinkedIn, click听the "Alumni" button, use the search tool to locate "sts" and "science and technology studies".)
Please read their data with听a critical eye. The search phrases can call up听a fair number of "false positives鈥 (i.e., people who are associated with us accidentally听by the search engine).
Previous data
In 2018, the UK government released detailed data for graduate outcomes and careers. This
STS BSc graduate level stats听 2016-17 | Average |
Graduate-Level Work, Post-Graduate Study or Both听 | 86.2%听 |
In Graduate-Level Work听 | 84%听 |
Median Salary Doctorate Master's taught Undergraduate | 听 拢34,000 拢23,000 拢25,000 |
Source: 听provided by 香港六合彩中特网 Careers Service |
Surprisingly,听this median salary for STS graduates is听higher than the median salary for the chemists, physicists, mathematicians, statisticians, and earth scientists all taken together in our faculty (拢28,000, with 91% in work, study, or both).
Employment and Jobs after University
The majority of听STS graduates choose either the world of work, or postgraduate studies, after their degree. They can be found in almost every sector of the economy; however,听jobs taken up by our graduates over the past four years generally fall into one of four categories:
- management, business, and finance
- journalism, public relations, and marketing
- museums and archives
- civil service and professional services
This is based on data received from the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey, which is a national survey of all universities undertaken by .
- Job titles for STS graduates 2016-17 (most recent data)
Technology Consultant
Team Manager
Stage Doorkeeper
Secretary
Secondary School Teacher (History and English)
Sales and marketing support
Research Assistant
Project Manager
Project management
Project Coordinator
Patient Records Administrator
Partnerships Manager
Operations intern
Network support
HIV support worker
Front of house waitress
Freelance Consultant
Business and Technology Consultant
Assistant Professor
Assistant Account Executive
Account Executive
Academic Journal Editor
(from 2016-2017听DLHE surveys)
- Employers of STS graduates
University College London (香港六合彩中特网)
90TEN
Accenture
Anthony Nolan
CMA Surveyors Loss Adjusters Ltd
DigitalHealth.London Accelerator
Freelance Consultant
GlaxoSmithKline
Grayce
Green King
Herts Aid
International Boarding School Salem
Kalgera
Languagewire
Master of Malt
Real Science Communications
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sciterion
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Synergy Healthcare Research
The Family Surgery
Villoid
Vision 2020
Womens Engineering Society
(from 2016-2017听DLHE surveys)
- Industry Sectors
Academic Research and HE
Health and Social Care
PR, Advertising, Marketing
IT, Technology & Telecomms
Manufacturing
Professional Services
Teaching or other educational activities
Accountancy & Financial Services
Consultancy
Engineering
Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism
Human Resources and Recruitment
Other
Social or Market Research
(from 2016-2017听DLHE surveys)
Source:
provided by 香港六合彩中特网 Careers Service
More university: Postgraduate Degrees
Increasingly, our graduates decide on postgraduate study, such as a taught Master's degree. A few decide to continue in academic fields associated with History of Science,听Philosophy of Science, and Sociology of Science.听The majority choose postgradaute studies that听provide accelerated professional training and qualification.
This is consistent with national trends.听The UK Office for Students reported survey results in 2018 that saw 鈥.听 The professional job market today is such that postgraduate degrees increasingly are expected as a baseline.
Many STS graduates choose postgraduate studies, such as a Masters, after their undergraduate degree. This is听consistent with national trends, which are experiencing听鈥渁听clear upward trend in the percentage of students who intend to undertake postgraduate study鈥 according to UK Office for Students.
Many STS graduates choose postgraduate studies, such as a Masters, after their undergraduate degree. This is听consistent with national trends, which are experiencing听鈥渁听clear upward trend in the percentage of students who intend to undertake postgraduate study鈥 according to UK Office for Students.
- Postgraduate Programmes chosen by STS graduates
International Development Masters
Medical Scientist Training Program MD/PhD
MSc Science, Technology and Society
PhD Fashion and Knowledge (1600-1800)
PhD History of Medicine
Science Communication
MSc Computer Science
MA Comparative Literature
MSc Global Governance and Ethics
MSc History and Philosophy of Science
MSc Medical Humanities
Philosophy Masters
(from 2012-2016 DLHE surveys)
Taking the Long View: Careers over Jobs
In the much wider frame,听UK Department of Education publishes long term data on employment and earnings. It gives information about earnings five-ish years after graduation听from a first degree.听Their latest report was published in June 2017听(). In that data,听Our degrees counted as 鈥淪ocial Sciences鈥 and 鈥淗istorical and听Philosophical Studies鈥. (Reading this data, the standard deviation bars are important. That鈥檚 2/3rds of the data. The report also gives data on 鈥渟ustained鈥澨齟mployment.)