Your urban studies and planning career
We provide advice, guidance and support in securing work experience, placements and graduate roles to help you discover and achieve your career goals.
Placements and work experience
We encourage you to undertake placements and work experience during your studies, to increase your opportunities for graduate employment, as well as offer you insight into your future career.
Graduate job roles
Our urban studies and planning graduates go on to a range of roles in both the public and private sectors. These roles include town planners, transport planners, urban designers, surveyors, community development workers, regeneration officers, sustainability consultants and housing officers.
Recent graduates have gone on to work for a number of high profile organisations, including:
- AirBnB
- Arup
- BNP Paribas Real Estate
- CBRE
- Deloitte
- Leeds City Council
- Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
- Peak District National Park
- Savills
- UN-Habitat
You can also search through our Graduate Outcomes data to find out which jobs and postgraduate study options graduates from the school moved on to after finishing their course.
Professional skills development
Throughout our course modules, we highlight the employability skills you gain, making it easier for you to communicate these when applying for placements, further study, and graduate jobs.
Supporting your professional development
Faculty of Social Sciences Employability hub
Social sciences students have access to an employability hub based in Cornerstone in the Wave, which offers bespoke employability support.
The hub team can help you to explore career options, build experience and skills, and it organises events that are tailored to social sciences subjects.
Social sciences employability hub events
Past events have included:
- Workplace Insights - Easter Internship programme
- City Connections Business and networking visit to London
- Meet the professional - speed networking event
Faculty of Social Sciences Employability Hub
Experience Sheffield for yourself
The best way to find out what studying at Sheffield is like is to visit us. You'll get a feel for the atmosphere, the people, the campus and the city.