Skills to Thrive

Skills to
Thrive

Built into your degree. Designed for your future.

Skills to Thrive are built into every Exeter undergraduate degree, so you develop essential, future-ready skills as part of your core modules, not as an optional extra.

Academic learning is combined with skills such as communication, problem-solving, teamwork, digital confidence and critical thinking. These skills are developed and practised through your core modules and assessments, so you benefit whatever your background or chosen discipline.

The goal is simple: to ensure you graduate ready for whatever comes next, with the knowledge, skills and confidence to thrive at university and beyond.

What are the Skills to Thrive?

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Communicate effectively in writing and speech, adapting style, structure, and tone to context, audience, and purpose.

Creatively explore challenges from different perspectives and deliver practical, timely solutions.

Actively build strong working relationships with others to have positive outcomes.

Embrace a variety of digital technologies to critically and effectively source, process and communicate data and narrative information.

Develop self-awareness through a commitment to learning from experiences and taking responsibility for personal growth.

Critically analyse and evaluate information from a variety of qualitative and quantitative sources to draw independent and well-founded conclusions.

Recognise diverse perspectives to communicate and collaborate on interconnected world issues and sustainable decisions.