Careers
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, GIS occupations will see growth rates ranging from 7%-54% between 2010-2020.
The proven ability of our long standing graduates from our MSc GIS programmes in employment means that our programmes are held in high regard by employers, and this ensures that our future graduates will receive favourable consideration when they begin looking for work.
The following lists identify where some of our students have gone in the past and gives an impression of the range of employment opportunities open to GIS graduates.
United Kingdom - Public Sector
- Association for Geographic Information (AGI), London
- Berkshire County Council
- City of Edinburgh Council
- Crown Estates Commission, Edinburgh
- Defence Geographic Centre, Feltham
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, London
- EDINA National Data Centre, Edinburgh
- English Heritage, London
- Environment Agency, Bristol
- Forestry Commission, Edinburgh
- Forestry Research, Edinburgh
- Forth Valley GIS, Stirling
- General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh
- Hertfordshire County Council, Planning Department
- Highland Council, Inverness
- Merseyside Information Service (MIS), Liverpool
- Ordnance Survey, Southampton
- Registers of Scotland, Edinburgh
- Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), London
- Scottish Natural Heritage
- Scottish Government, Edinburgh
- Scottish Water, Edinburgh
- Strathclyde Police, Glasgow
- Warwickshire County Council
- The Welsh Assembly, Cardiff
UK - Private Sector
- Amey Infrastructure Services, Glasgow
- Autodesk, Guildford
- Bell Cablemedia
- BKS Surveys, Coleraine
- British Airways
- CACI Ltd., London
- Capita Symonds, London
- ESRI-UK, Aylesbury
- Genasys, Manchester
- Geowise Ltd., Edinburgh
- Chas. E. Goad Ltd., Hatfield
- Harper-Collins Bartholomew, Glasgow
- Hewlett-Packard Ltd., Bristol
- Hoskyns GIS, Winchester
- Huntings Surveys, Hemel Hempstead
- ICL, Manchester
- Informed Solutions, Altrincham
- Intergraph Corporation (UK) Ltd., Swindon
- Laser-Scan Ltd., Cambridge
- Lloyds-Bowmaker, London
- Manchester Geomatics
- Mason Land Surveys, Dunfermline
- Multimap.com, London
- MVA Systematica Ltd.
- Sopra, Newell & Budge, Edinburgh
- Oracle Corporation (UK) Ltd.
- Posford-Duvivier Ltd., Peterborough
- RSK Environment, Aberdeen
- South-West Water
- Unisys Ltd.
UK - Research Institutions and Universities
- British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge
- British Geological Survey, Nottingham
- Centre for Hydrology and Ecology, Merlewood
- GeoData Institute, Southampton
- London School of Economics, University of London
- Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen
- NERC Unit for Thematic Information Systems (NUTIS), Reading
- Regional Research Laboratory for Scotland
- Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh
- University of Bristol
- University of Cambridge (Wolfson College)
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge
In addition to the above posts, a number of our graduates have gone on to undertake research towards a doctorate.
Overseas
- Australian National Resource Information Centre, Canberra
- CAD/CAM Corporation, Hong Kong
- Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
- Directorate of National Mapping, Malaysia
- Environmental Science Unit, Trinity College, Dublin
- Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), California
- General Electric (GE) Aerospace, Philadelphia
- Geovision Corporation, Ottawa
- Google, California
- Hong Kong Polytechnic
- International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya
- International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia
- Microsoft, Seattle
- Military Survey of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Ministry of Local Government. Lands and Housing, Botswana
- Ministry of Natural Resources, Government of Ontario, Canada
- National Avian Research Centre, Abu Dhabi
- National Institute for Statistics and Geographic Information, Mexico
- Nestlé, Mexico
- Oracle Corporation, California
- Shell, Netherlands
- Soil Survey of Zambia
- Thailand Development Research Institute, Bangkok
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Norway
- United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FOA), Rome
- University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- University of Cork, Eire
- University of West Virginia
- US Army Topographic Engineering Centre, Virginia
- World Bank, Washington DC
This article was published on Oct 25, 2012