Careers and Alumni

Explore your future career options and meet our alumni

Careers

Our graduates have excellent career prospects in the IT industry and beyond. Recent graduates comfortably secured roles such as:

  • software engineer
  • hardware engineer
  • data scientist
  • app developer
  • web developer
  • programmer    
  • bioinformatition
  • games designer
  • machine learning engineer
  • artificial intelligence engineer  

Many of our MSc graduates go into research, teaching and further study. Recent examples include:

  • Research Associate NLP/ML
  • Research Fellow/Scientist
  • Research Engineer in Artificial Intelligence 
  • Researcher and Machine Learning Engineer

University destinations for higher study (typically PhD) include Oxford, Cambridge and St Andrews as well as the University of Edinburgh. 

The School has strong links with industry which can help you find exciting internships and job opportunities. Popular graduate destinations include:

  • Google
  • Facebook
  • Amazon
  • Apple
  • Samsung
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • RockStar North
  • NatWest Group

Meet our Informatics alumni

Hear from recent MSc graduates working in tech & data as well as the changing shape of roles and the new sectors seeking highly technical students:

Careers Service

The Careers Service has a dedicated team that offers impartial professional advice to help you with your careers ambitions.  

They provide networking opportunities with employers, from top multinationals to local businesses and personalised guidance and help on job searches, applications and interviews. 

Hear from our Careers Consultant talk about tech and data careers:

Careers Consultant Rebecca Clacy-Jones delivers this informative session on careers in tech and data.

 Hear from recent graduates working in tech & data as well as the changing shape of roles and the new sectors seeking highly technical students:

Hear from recent graduates working in tech & data; the changing shape of roles and the new sectors seeking highly technical students. What are the emerging roles that didn’t exist 5 years ago? How is an increased focus on data and AI changing what careers in tech look like? What about industries whose core business is not technology specific- where can my tech/data skills have the biggest impact? What are going to be the most sought-after skills in the future?

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