After your degree

Find out more about careers and our alumni.

Careers

The courses you study throughout your programme provide you with the analytical and critical-thinking skills that are highly valued in the workplace.

Recent examples of roles our cognitive science graduates have gone on to include: 

• Charity Project Worker
• HR Consultant
• Social Worker
• Evaluation Officer
• Project Manager for a financial institution
• Supporter Relations Manager for a charity
• Summer School Director
• Marketing Executive

In addition, many students choose to continue their studies at postgraduate level. 

The Careers Service is also on hand to offer students a wide range of support and services during their time at the University.

Careers and employment at the University of Edinburgh

Alumni stories

We frequently have to put highly technical topics, such as artificial intelligence and neural networks, into more simplistic terms in order to write essays about them in a philosophical fashion. This has made technical report writing for my managers much easier, and has proved valuable in my work.