Preparing you
for employment:
placements, careers
and employability
With the jobs market
becoming ever more
competitive, we want
to ensure that our
graduates are fully
equipped with the
knowledge and skills to
compete successfully
in the jobs market.
Our employment rate
98.2%* of those graduating from a
full-time undergraduate degree course at
QMU go on to employment or further
training within six months of graduating,
which demonstrates that our graduates
have the skills and knowledge that
employers value. QMU’s graduate
employment rate is well above the
Scottish university sector average of
95.2%. Indeed, we are top in Scotland
and third in the UK for employment of our
graduate leavers.
*Source: July HESA 2017
Courses designed for a satisfying career
QMU provides a range of professionally
relevant courses, at both undergraduate
and postgraduate level, and produces
graduates who are well prepared to enter
a career after graduation.
Our courses aim to enable you to have a
positive impact on people’s everyday lives
and the type of careers that our graduates
enter are ones which will bring job
satisfaction and the opportunity to
contribute to society.
We are one of the leading providers of
courses allied to medicine, and the
professional accreditation, approval and
registration provided by these courses
allows our graduates to begin working
immediately, often in the National Health
Service, as, for example, physiotherapists,
podiatrists, occupational therapists,
radiographers and dieticians. Our other
health courses, in the biological sciences,
nutrition and life sciences, can lead
graduates into commercial research work,
further academic research and
entrepreneurship.
Our range of business courses produce
graduates who go on to very successful
careers either running their own
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businesses or working in the marketing,
retail, events, hospitality and tourism
sectors. Our arts and social sciences
graduates also go on to have successful
careers in a variety of fields, with many
now carving out self-employed careers,
for example, establishing their own theatre
companies.
Examples of the variety of jobs in which
our students have found employment are
provided on the individual course pages
and case studies in this prospectus, and
on our website.
Placements
At QMU, many of our courses include an
integral placement as part of the
curriculum. This can range from a few
weeks to several months of each year
depending on the course, and some
courses offer opportunities in the UK and
overseas. Our placements are set up to
provide students with an environment for
practical learning, utilising what you have
learnt in the classroom in a real-world
setting and offering the opportunity to
learn on the job, within the supportive
environment of the University.