Section outline

  • MA History graduates can go into a huge variety of jobs, as you have built skills through your undergraduate studies and then consolidated and strengthened those skills through your MA programme.  

    You need to recognise your skills so that you know what you have to sell to an employer - transferable skills will come from all aspects of your life, not just your studies.  However work with others on your course to brainstorm the range of skills gained through your Masters e.g. the ability to research and then review extensive information, to identify & analyse the key points and then either to summarize that information, or to persuasively communicate a particular point of view.  Skills very relevant to:

    • Journalism - both print & broadcast
    • Corporate Public Relations
    • Publishing
    • Strategy & Planning
    • Museums
    • Management consultancy
    • Government & Civil Service
    • Law
    • Business Management roles 
    • Finance & Accountancy
    • Teaching
    • Marketing/Media


    According to LinkedIn, some of the organisations that QM School of History alumni were working for included:

    JP Morgan Chase

    Teach First

    English Heritage

    Deloitte

    House of Commons

    Hewlett Packard

    The Civil Service

    Welsh Labour

    Institute of Directors

    CAFOD

    Squire Patton Boggs LLP

    Lloyds Banking Group


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