Helping you achieve your career goals

Wherever you want to go, BU can help you get there. Our courses are designed around academic excellence, and focus on ensuring you will be highly employable anywhere in the world. Our commitment to your career prospects goes beyond the courses we offer too, with support from our CareersBU team also helping you to stand out in the graduate employment market.

How we do it

• The BU Skills Development Programme has been developed with employers to help you discover and demonstrate your potential to work in a truly global way, crossing physical and cultural boundaries to deliver outstanding results in your studies and the workplace.

• CV and careers appointments with our professionally qualified careers advisors to discuss your CV and career plans. We can help you formulate job-hunting strategies, practise mock interviews and assessments with you, improve your CV, and advise you about working abroad.

• Work placements are available on most of our postgraduate degrees, giving you the chance to graduate with experience in your field as well as making invaluable contacts for the future.

• Engaging with employers also gives you a competitive edge – we are often visited by organisations who you can talk to about placement and graduate employment opportunities, and the type of graduates they are looking for. The sessions can help you sharpen up your applications to other companies too.

• On-campus graduate and employment fairs run all year round – some big, and some smaller, sector-specific events. Attended by local, national and international employers, they are a great way to make contacts and get advice about your next step.

87% of our postgraduates say they went on to work in an industry related to their degree1

90% of BU graduates were in sustained employment or further study three years after graduation2

• Our graduates often return, passing on their experience to our students through talks and guest lectures – as well as hunting for talent for the organisations they have moved on to. 1 BU Alumni

For more information please visit: www.bournemouth.ac.uk/careers

BU helped me obtain my current role because my lecturer encouraged me to apply for the position, which was a three-month pilot but now it has become a three-year permanent contract. My graduate visa has allowed me to obtain clinical skills that will help me to become a Clinical Psychologist in the future.

Talya Disagciyan from Turkey, MSc Foundations of Clinical Psychology

My international experience

Linh from Vietnam applied for the Turing Scheme in the summer of 2022.

BU’s Global Engagement team helped me secure Turing Scheme funding which allowed me to go to Amsterdam for a summer course which aligned with my interest in sustainability. It was my first time travelling to a different country since I started my course in the UK, and I will never forget those rewarding and unforgettable experiences. Had it not been for BU’s support and the Turing Funding Scheme, I could not have made it happen.

Linh Trinh from Vietnam, MA Marketing Communications