Careers for School of English Graduates
Studying any of our courses offered in the School of English will prepare you for a diverse range of rewarding and profitable careers. However you choose to use your degree, the combination of academic excellence and personal skills developed and demonstrated on your course will make you highly prized by employers around the world.
Your career
When it comes to the workplace, a degree in English can open all kinds of doors. This is good if you're not sure about your career plans yet. But it's just as good if you are.
Analytical skills and communication are vital across all kinds of careers. Add this to the prestige of a degree from one of Britain's greatest universities and you'll see why our graduates do well in the jobs market.
Many go on to work in the media, journalism, publishing, marketing and advertising. Others build careers in teaching, while some follow paths into law, business and management.
A further group progresses to postgraduate study, research and an academic career.
The University's Careers Service has more information about job options for graduates in.
For information from some of our former students about what they are doing now, please see the page "Graduate Case Studies" and select 'English Literature, Language and Linguistics' from the drop-down box.