What can I do with my degree?

Psychology

The Career Zone have produced a guide: Psychology Careers Factsheet (.pdf)

We aim to provide you with a range of academic, personal and professional skills that will prepare you confidently for employment, future study or training for professional practice. As a Psychology graduate you'll possess a wide range of skills and a broad range of knowledge about people and how they function and adapt to various circumstances. Our graduates are scientists who can design experiments, analyse data and use computers. These skills can give a foundation for careers in research, high technology industries or management/personnel, legal and advertising services. You'll have communication skills that form the basis of careers in marketing and the economic world. You'll be able to help people, in personnel roles or in the caring professions. You'll be able to progress in many branches of professional psychology, such as, clinical, educational or research. . An essential transferable skill is the ability to present well at interviews, an ability which will enhance your employment prospects in a competitive environment.

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:

• Charities and the voluntary sector
• Health and social care careers
• Information technology
• Childhood and youth work
• Government and public service
• Further Study

For more information about careers with Psychology, please click here.

Destinations of University of Exeter Psychology 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
Behaviour Counsellor
Bereavement Counsellor
Care Support Worker
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Worker
Child Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Neuro-Psychologist
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Psychology Consultant
Community Psychiatric Nurse/Psychological Therapist
Coordinator Family Integrated Support Services
Counselling Psychologist
Educational Psychologist
Exercise Physiologist
Family Care Worker
Family Support Worker
Forensic Psychiatrist
Foster Family Support Worker
Head of Psychological Therapy
Health Care Support Worker
Hospice Bereavement Support Worker
Mental Health Advisor
Mental Health Nurse
Mental Health Social Worker
Occupational Therapist
Paediatric Clinical Psychologist
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Practice Counsellor
Primary Care Mental Health Worker
Primary Mental Health Worker
Psychological Counsellor Specialist
Psychological Therapist/Clinical Psychologist
Psychologist
Research Fellow
Residential Support Worker
Senior Children's Primary Mental Health Worker
Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Employers
Bideford Learning Community
Bon Air Nursing Home
Bristol Foundation Trust
CAMHS - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Capital Health
Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust
Care in the Home Ltd
County and City Councils
Cruse Bereavement Care
Devon and Cornwall Police
Exeter and District Hospice
FANY
GCHQ
Guardian Nursing Services
Headway
Healthspan Ltd
Higher Education Institutes
Home Care Direct
Institute of Cancer Research
KCA
LDC Dover
Leonard Cheshire Disability
Liberation Communications
Macmillan Cancer Support
Medical Research Council
Modus Care
NHS
NPSA
Oasis
Porter Moore
Primary Care Trusts
Priory Group
Psychology Associates
Regent's Park Ltd
Residential Community Care Ltd
Riverside Mental Health Team
Schools and Colleges
Sense
SOCOPS
Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
South London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Step One Services
The Blackdown Practice
The National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Westbank League of Friends
Workways

Further study
Certificate in Counselling Skills
Cognitive Psychology
Diploma in Professional Acting
Diploma Mental Health Nursing
MA Forensic Psychology
MA Research Methods and Psychology
MA Social & Organisational Psychology
Medicine, BMBS
MPhil Psychology
MRes in Psychology
MSc Health Psychology
MSc Cognitive Neuroscience
MSc in Criminology
MSc Economic & Social Research Fund
MSc Economic and Consumer Psychology
MSc Forensic Psychology
MSc International Management
MSc Marketing
MSc Mental Health Studies
MSc Neuropsychology
MSc Occupational Psychology
MSc Organisational Psychology
MSc Psychological Research Methods
MSc Psychological Therapies
MSc Rehabilitation Psychology