Discover the full range of careers open to graduates of the following degree subjects.
Other degree subjects will be added in due course. If your degree subject is not here, speak
to your careers adviser. Remember that up to 40% of graduate employment vacancies are
open to graduates of all disciplines, so there may also be other general opportunities open
to you.
Your careers adviser can also give you detailed information about the careers or further
study that recent graduates in your degree subject have gone on to do.
The transferable skills that you develop through your studies
and extra-curricular activities will help you to access
vacancies either related or non-related to your degree. For
tips on how to develop these skills see
http://www.skillsproject.ie/useful/index.html.
Biomedical engineering
Modern medicine has given rise to the development of a wide range of novel engineering solutions to clinical problems. As a result of this increased collaboration between engineers and doctors, the new discipline of Biomedical Engineering has developed.
Biotechnology
Biotechnology is the study of the science of living organisms and technology. It is useful across many sectors and job opportunities abound.
Business studies
Your degree provides you with an understanding and appreciation of modern business enterprises as well as equips you with the necessary competence in key business functions.
Civil Engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering course that deals with the construction and design of public and private sector works such as bridges, roads, dams and buildings. Civil engineering is the oldest engineering discipline after military.
Commerce
Commerce is a course that teaches about the process which deals with the exchange of goods and services from producer to final consumer. information or mone
Economics
Your degree will have provided you with an understanding and appreciation of modern business enterprises and equipped you with the necessary competence in key business functions to enable you to embark on a challenging and rewarding career.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Your degree will have provided you with an understanding and appreciation of modern business enterprises and equipped you with the necessary competence in key business functions to enable you to embark on a challenging and rewarding career.
English
An English degree allows you to keep open, a wide range of career options. The study of English enables you to think about a range of personal, cultural and historical issues. It provides you with an excellent foundation for further study etc
Environmental science
Environmental science is the study of interactions among physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment. It is an interdisciplinary science overlapping the categories in Natural sciences, Engineering sciences and Social sciences.
Food science
Food science is a discipline concerned with all technical aspects of food, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering, and ending with its cooking and consumption.
Geography
Geography (from the Greek words Geo or Gaea, both meaning "Earth", and graphein meaning "to describe" or "to write"or "to map") is the study of the earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena.
History
History is the study of the past, focused on human activity and leading up to the present day. All that is remembered of the past and preserved in some form is seen as the historical record.
Humanities
Humanities considered as 'this education and these studies exist for their own sake' as part of the pursuit of excellence in intellectual and moral activities that best fulfill human beings.
Information Systems
Information System (IS) is the system of persons, data records and activities that process the data and information in a given organisation, including manual processes or automated processes.
Information technology
Information technology (IT) is the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware.
Languages and culture
Language is a medium. It is a means to an end, rather than an end in itself. Therefore, unless you become a translator or an interpreter, you will need to have something to say or write in your foreign language.
Law
Law or legal studies is the education of individuals who intend to become legal professionals or those who simply intend to use their law degree to some other end.
Marketing
Marketing is study of the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organisational objectives
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of issues centered on such concepts as quantity, structure, space, and change. Knowledge and use of basic mathematics have always been an inherent and integral part of individual and group life.
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the application of principles of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems
Microbiology
Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster microscopic organisms. Microbiology is a broad term which includes many branches like bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology and others.
Nursing
Nursing is a profession focused on assisting individuals, families, and communities in attaining, maintaining, and recovering optimal health and functioning.
Personnel management
THe diffrent types of personal management and jobs opportinuty
Physics
Physics is the branch of science concerned with discovering and characterising universal laws that govern matter, energy, space, and time.
