A sociology degree opens a number of employment opportunities and sociology graduates are highly sought-after by a wide range of employers.
Choose to go into any of these careers
- Business management
- HR
- Market research
- Welfare
- Education
- Social research
- Local and central government
- Health and social care
- Social and criminal justice
- NGO sector
- Law
- Journalism and media
You’ll gain highly transferable skills you can apply to any career.
These skills include:
- Research and analytical skills using specialist computing applications
- Critical thinking skills and the ability to make arguments.
- Written and oral communication skills to express ideas to wide range of audiences.
- Team working, self-management skills.
We’ll support your career preparation – whether you aspire to social and market research, policy and government, education, communications, charities and NGOs, community and international development, public services, and organisational analysis, or go on to postgraduate study and research across the social sciences and related fields.
Royal Holloway careers service also offer one to one CV support, applications and job support.