We are committed to providing you with enhanced career prospects and the ability to achieve at the highest level.
You will enter the job market with a fresh approach and the flexibility and adaptability to respond to modern challenges.
The huge range of career opportunities will enable you to apply your:
- knowledge
- experience in the design process
- considerable skillsets
- approach to learning
Design jobs
Our graduates have a strong track record of gaining employment in the creative industries within six months of completing their studies.
Our graduates typically join a:
- design consultancy
- product development team within a company
- technology or design-focused start-ups
- design and research team within academia
Graduates interested in designing and making often establish their own practice or start-up.
A range of skills
The wide range of skills you will develop opens up diverse career options.
For example, our graduates have gone on to work in:
- product design and development
- user interface and user experience design
- interaction design
- service design
- design research
- design management
- model making
- packaging design
Other examples include:
- marketing
- retail design
- exhibition design
- multimedia installation design
- computer-aided design
- technical roles within the University
Connections with industry
Through self-directed and industry-led project work you will build skills in:
- project planning
- project management
- working as part of a team
- personal and collective accountability
We have built strong contacts with the industry through:
- industry-linked projects
- staff research
- our range of visiting speakers
This will make sure you are aware of the full range of career possibilities and are provided with a strong footing from which to develop your chosen career.
Where our graduates work
Our graduates can be found working in a range of companies, including:
- Slancha
- Puma
- Microsoft
- Coda Octopus Products
- Sustrans
- National Cash Register
- Phillips
- Andthen
- RBS
- The National Museum of Scotland
- Herman Miller
- Habitat
- Zara Home
- Viaduct
- Isu
- Blue marmalade
- Moo
- Bodo Sperlein
- Optoplast Actman Eyewear
- The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
- Peebles CAN
- 4S Technologies
- Martha Stewart Living
- Sirona event and promotions
- Tayburn
- HSBC
- Unilever
- 1508 London
- Lakeland
Careers Service
Our Careers Service can help you to fully develop your potential and achieve your future goals.
The Careers Service supports you not only while you are studying at the University, but also for up to two years after you finish your studies.
With the Careers Service, you can:
- access digital resources to help you understand your skills and strengths
- try different types of experiences and reflect on how and what you develop
- get help finding work, including part-time jobs, vacation work, internships and graduate jobs
- attend careers events and practice interviews
- get information and advice to help you make informed decisions
Visit the Careers Service website
Further study
After you complete your programme, you may want to go onto further study at Edinburgh or a different university. You could progress to:
- a masters degree
- a postgraduate diploma or certificate
- a PhD
- a second undergraduate degree
Find out about options for further study
Postgraduate degrees you might be interested in could include:
