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Enhance your employability

FCH

  • combine subjects not otherwise possible at Exeter
  • cross-subject degrees to suit your interests and career ambitions
  • leads to a named degree title of the subjects you study
  • study two subjects, or sometimes three
  • create your own themed pathway
  • vary the proportion of the subjects each year
  • add vocational elements to your studies
  • opportunities for study and work abroad

 

From advice to careerEmployers like Flexible Combined Honours Degrees!

  • You stand out from the crowd
  • You show motivation in creating your own degree
  • You have breadth of knowledge
  • You are different!

The degree gives you added qualities compared to usual single honours or combined honours programmes.

It appeals particularly to highly motivated students, as the degree encourages you to adapt your studies to your changing interests and to add to your employability. This develops a sense of responsibility in you for your own learning and decision-making.

You learn time management skills, caused by resolving potential timetabling issues, varying workloads and meeting conflicting deadlines.

Academically the degree easily allows you to add breadth to your knowledge and understanding, whilst staff guidance ensures appropriate depth and academic progression to your studies - in short, an interesting graduate!

By following at least two subjects, you embrace different study, research and analytical methodologies, varied assessment methods, and the need to develop different verbal and written presentation skills appropriate for the subjects.

The result – an interesting graduate with a very good range of transferable skills for the workplace:

  • time management
  • adaptability
  • self-directed working
  • reflection
  • appreciation of diversity
  • application of different approaches to suit the situation or problem
  • presentation skills
  • numerical and literary-based abilities, according to the subjects taken

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