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Employability
You will be in an ideal position to progress through to your choice of a variety of graduate job roles or further training by studying either a BSc or BA Sport and Exercise degree here at Durham.
Our success can be found in the results of the largest survey of its kind (QS World Ranking Employer Survey).
Employers identified Durham University as a World Top 100 source of the most competent, innovative, effective graduates. Durham Sport and Exercise Sciences is consistently also identified as a top World 100 for Sport Sciences department that produces the most employable graduates.
Employability skills are embedded in our courses and assessments from day one. Our graduates are competitively positioned to pursue an extensive range of careers across sport, exercise, physical activity and health settings – as well as broader graduate pathways in areas not directly linked to the degrees. We want our graduates to leave with more than just a degree, and ready to make a difference in the world. In this sense, Durham’s Graduate Attributes serve as a cornerstone to the Durham student experience.
Most of our students go on to become PE teachers and physiotherapists though some pursue careers in other areas including elite sport, sport management and sport development. This includes management roles in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, leading participation development projects for local councils and major charities and working in senior roles in major sport organisations like Sport England.
The quality and flexibility of our degree programmes also means that our graduates can progress on career pathways beyond sport. This includes banking and finance, business and management, public relations, human resources and recruitment and the armed forces. In these and other roles, we currently have graduates working in major multi-national companies such as Facebook, Accenture, KPMG, Hays Recruitment and the International Management Group.
Our graduates are also ideally placed progress to further study at postgraduate level.