Careers
An Engineering degree from Exeter is highly valued by employers. Our Employability Officer is active in developing aspects of our programmes and services that improve your employability. We also have a dedicated Careers Adviser who provides specific services such as careers workshops and support in matters such as applications and job interview skills. The Employability Service run several careers fairs throughout the year and these have been particularly successful in putting major UK employers in touch with Exeter students.
We have hundreds of links to regional and national industry and student projects are usually industrially driven, often directly involving these companies. This provides an opportunity for you to undertake commercially important projects at the forefront of technology and enhance your employability. Relevant employers also visit the department to help students develop their career ideas at an early enough stage to help with module choices and placement decisions.
We provide skills development sessions in your first two years that include an induction week in the first year and a number of career related training sessions in your second year. Management, business and personal skills are also built into our programmes.
Exeter has an excellent reputation with graduate recruiters and a strong employment record. Career opportunities for engineers are almost limitless, as engineers can be found working in the public sector, in health, communications, education, construction, defence, finance and manufacturing. Engineers have a reputation as being articulate, numerate, problem solvers, who typically claim great job satisfaction, a good salary and a huge range of career possibilities.
Here are just a few examples of the destinations of our recent graduates:
Occupations
- Trainee Chartered Accountant
- Project Engineer
- Flood Risk Graduate Engineer
- Marine Engineering Officer
- Project Coordinator
- Nuclear Engineer
Employers
- Rospen Industries
- Ultra Electronics Audiosoft
- Pell Frischmann
- Jacobs Engineering Ltd
- Environment Agency
- Balfour Beatty
- Sellafield Ltd
Further study
- PhD Computational Modelling, University of Exeter
- MSc Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London
- MSc Urban Water Systems, University of Exeter
- MSc Sustainable Energy Systems, University of Edinburgh
- MSc Structural Engineering, University of Surrey
Find out more about the Destinations of Engineering Graduates on our Employability site.
