Transferrable Skills

The courses are designed to provide you with a foundation of strong transferrable written skills that are attractive to employers and will give you a definite edge in a highly competitive employment market.  Such skills include:

• Research skills
• IT skills
• Writing skills
• Communication skills
• Ability to address complex issues critically, logically and analytically
• Ability to work independently
• Team building skills

Careers Information and Student Careers:

The BSc Communications, Media & Society and the variety of Masters degrees we offer provide an excellent grounding for many career options.  Such options include:

• Commercial marketing/market research
• Advertising
• Journalism
• Public Relations Consultancy
• Television Production and Scriptwriting
• Academic Research and Research Consultancy

Many students also develop interests in teaching and areas of social work.

There is also a great deal of opportunity for further postgraduate study in this field, not least of which are the opportunities here at Leicester.

Where have our students gone for work?

Many of our Masters' level students go onto research degrees but graduates have also returned to careers in which having the MA or MSc degree has helped their advancement to higher positions. Graduates have also entered teaching, working in finance industries, telecommunications, media production and the military in the wide variety of countries from which they originate.

In recent years, graduates from the BSc Communications, Media and Society have gone on to a wide variety of jobs or further training, including:

ADAS (MAFF): Researcher

AOL Europe: Partner Marketing Manager

Bass Brewers: Marketing Assistant

BBC Natural History Unit: Production Secretary

Birmingham Health Authority: Assistant Personnel Manager

Bournemouth University: MA Television and Video Production

BUNAC: Campus Support Assistant

BUPA: Account Executive

CO-OP Bank: Fraud Investigator

Corby; English/Media Teacher

Dean Street Post (Post Production): Librarian

Gloucester College of Arts: NCJT Journalism Course

Granada/Sky: Researcher

ITC: Researcher

Japan (JET scheme): English teacher

Lion Television: Assistant Producer

Local Newspaper (Crawley): Journalist

LSE: MA Media and Communications

Virgin.net: Sub-editor

West Midlands Police: Intelligence Research Officer