What can I do with my degree?

Classics and Ancient History

The Career Zone have produced a guide: Classics and Ancient History Careers Factsheet (.pdf)

A degree in Classics and Ancient History can provide you with an excellent range of skills such as developing logical thinking, interpreting, assessing and evaluating information and good communication skills. For our graduates, it opens up a wide range of options of both further study and employment including career paths in related areas such as museum work and teaching as well providing a path to other areas such as the Civil Service, business, law and management.

Exeter has an excellent reputation with graduate recruiters and our students and graduates compete very successfully in the employment market. Many employers target the University when recruiting new graduates. Six months after graduation 93% of Exeter's first degree graduates were in employment or further study.*

*(Figures as at Jan. 2010, as a percentage of those respondents available for employment or study)

Using your degree

More information about:

Find out more about the Department of Classics and Ancient History - humanities.exeter.ac.uk/classics.

Destinations of University of Exeter Classics and Ancient History Graduates

Full time UK domiciled undergraduates (of those who completed their courses in the last three years) surveyed six months after graduation. The following are examples of destinations of graduates who finished undergraduate courses:

Jobs
Actor
Assistant Language Teacher
Campaign Organiser
Classics Teacher
Client Executive
Design Amender
Document Services Operator
English Teacher
Executive Search Researcher
Foreign Language Teacher
Graduate Intern
Graduate Trainee Teacher of Classics
Human Resources Adviser
Human Resources Graduate Trainee
Intern
Lecturer
Legal Assistant
Missionary in Guatemala for a Charity
Nursery School Educator and English Language Teacher
Office Co-Ordinator
Personal Incident Manager
Producer of West End Shows
Project Manager
Property Manager
Publishing Assistant
Publishing Intern
Quality Controller
Researcher
Restaurant Manager
Teaching Assistant
Trainee Teacher
Vol.Sec.Rep on Complex Care Teams, and Project Worker
Voluntary Classroom Assistant

Employer
Act Productions
Burson
Carlson Marketing Group UK
CMI
Dorset County Hospital
Duckworth Press
Freelance
Fundacion Concilia Educas
IPC Media
Jet Programme
Lancaster and Co
Latitude Executive Consulting
Mack Multiples Limited
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS
Marsh and Parsons
Merlin Entertainment Group
NHS
Norwich Union
Palm
Probation Office
Quantell Ltd
Rave Magazine
Secondary and Primary Schools
Star
The National Archives
The Old Vic Theatre
The Woodbridge Inn
University of Exeter
Warwickshire Education Authority
Westbank Community Health and Care
Winckworth Sherwood Llp
Xi'an Gallop International English School
Yell
Youth with a Mission

Further Study
Event Management
Graduate Diploma in Law
MA Ancient History
MA Classics
MA Classics and Ancient History
MA English Studies
MA Ethics, Religion and Society
MA Human Resource Management
MA Medieval Studies
MA Roman Art and Archaeology
MBBS Medicine
MSc International Management
PGCE English Secondary
PGCE Primary Teaching
PhD Ancient Greek Medicine
Philosophy
Subject Knowledge Enhancement in Religious Education