Careers with a Computer Science degree
As the digital world rapidly develops, the need for Computer Science graduates keeps growing. Find out about your many career options with a Computer Science degree.
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What can you do with a Computer Science degree?
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Career options with a Computer Science degree
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Who employs Computer Science graduates?
As a Computer Science graduate, your specialist skills such as programming languages, software systems, and data modelling will be in high demand from many businesses. With so much choice, you might be drawn to a sector that interests you such as agriculture, retail, or finance. Alternatively, you could go on to work at an IT consultancy or with an IT service provider.
If you like to be involved in a range of IT problems and solutions, your specialist knowledge could be put to great use in a small or medium enterprise.
Don’t forget to highlight your transferrable skills like teamwork, time management, and communication skills and it might be worth investigating postgraduate study if there’s an area you want to research further.
Career options with a Computer Science degree
Computer Science graduates have the option to go into many different careers like:
- Applications developer
- Cyber security analyst
- Forensic computer analyst
- Games designer or developer
- IT consultant
- Network engineer
- Programmer
- Software engineer
- Software product manager
- Web designer or developer
Other potential opportunities include:
- Business analyst
- Lecturer
- IT trainer
- Telecommunication researcher
There are many employers looking for graduates with Computer Science skills, here are just a few examples:
- Accenture
- Amazon web services
- Bank of America
- BT Group
- Hitachi
- Meta
- Capgemini
- PwC
- IBM
- CGI
- EDF Energy
- MET Office
- Rightmove
- Sky
Typical employers include universities and schools if you go into research or teaching.
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