Careers
What careers can a Warwick postgraduate degree in Psychology lead to?
Our Psychology Postgraduate Research degree offers postgraduate training for a career as an academic psychologist or as a professional Chartered Psychologist in a related discipline such as health, education, forensic, or sports science. In addition to subject-related knowledge, our postgraduate research training also enhances valuable transferable skills in statistics, computing, project management and communication. Our postgraduates enter careers where their practical and research skills, insights into human behaviour, and experience gained at Warwick make them highly employable in both public and private sectors.
For example, many of our students go on to become academics in world-leading institutions after graduating. A non-exhaustive list of destinations includes:
Notable UK universities |
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| University of Warwick |
University College London |
University of Oxford |
University of York |
| University of Leicester | University of Exeter | University of Southampton | University of Kent |
Notable overseas universities |
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| University of Ottawa |
Sultan Idris Education University (Malaysia) |
University of Neuchatel (Switzerland) | Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) |
| University of Vienna (Austria) |
Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Germany) |
Bielefeld University (Germany) |
Berlin Psychological University (Germany) |
| KAZGUU University (Kazakhstan) |
University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) | Princeton University (USA) |
Harvard University (USA) |
Some of our students who chose to enter industry rather than academia found initial employment at such places as:
| EasyPeasy | Signol | The Brilliant Club | |
| HM Revenue & Customs | Akrivia Health | SMEC | Lloyds Bank |
| Public Health England | Sparta Global | YouGov | Multiverse |
| Deutsche Bahn |
What kind of job titles do our graduates have? The word cloud below should give you an idea:
