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BSc Geography with Professional Placement / Careers

Year of entry: 2022

Career opportunities

BSc Geography with Professional Placement graduates have excellent employment prospects. Our Geography graduates have gone on to successful careers in areas including:  

  • planning; 
  • business development; 
  • education; 
  • consulting; 
  • marketing, media and communications; 
  • project management; 
  • research. 

Top employers of our BSc Geography graduates include the Environment Agency, Accenture, HSBC, Manchester City Council, Network Rail, PwC, Sky, and the BBC. 

Our Geography employability support and your Professional Placement experience will ensure you leave us as a highly employable individual, by developing your expertise in teamwork, communication, research, data analysis, problem solving and time management. 

You will also gain subject-specific skills such as working with spatial data (GIS), working with archives, undertaking interviews, and a suite of field and laboratory analyses; invaluable skills if you choose to pursue a career directly related to your degree. 

In addition, you will benefit from the attention of an academic member of staff who will focus on enhancing your employability through the curriculum, volunteering and internships. 

For more information, see  Careers and employability . 

The University has its own dedicated  Careers Service  that you would have full access to as a student and for two years after you graduate.  

At Manchester you will have access to a number of  opportunities to help boost your employability .