Being a Bath student is not just about studying and doing research. By making the most of the opportunities available here, you’ll gain experience and skills which will help you plan your career path and increase your employability.
We can help you make important decisions about the type of career you want so that, by the time you graduate, you have an idea of what you want to do and know the steps you need to take.
Bath graduates are highly valued and sought after by leading graduate employers.
Throughout your time at Bath, you can receive career information, advice, and guidance from our teams of Employability experts.
You'll have access to a wide range of employability support and advice. There are experts in your faculty ready to give you careers advice for your subject area, and our central team offers support to all students, including drop-ins and workshops.
You can also improve your employability through initiatives like:
Doing a placement during your course can give you the experience and skills that set you apart from other graduates. In fact, the majority of our undergraduate students choose a placement or study abroad period.3
Take advantage of our strong links with industry and go on a placement as part of your studies. Most of our undergraduate courses give you the chance to take a professional placement of between six and 12 months.4
On a placement, you can get practical experience and gain transferable skills at the same time as learning about working in the private or public sector. This can help you make more informed choices about your future career and you can include it on your CV as work experience.
As a Bath student, you can receive tailored support from our Placements team who have worked with many of the world’s biggest organisations to offer placement opportunities to our students.
Improve your employability with a placement
Enhance your academic and career prospects through our workshops, courses, self-access resources, tutorials, and drop-in sessions.
With our support, you can master:
You can visit the Careers Centre every day during term time to get expert advice on anything careers-related, including:
If you can’t visit us on campus, you can email, call, or book a virtual appointment instead.
You can grow your skills and get real-world experience by taking part in programmes like these alongside your studies.
At Bath, you can deepen your knowledge of sustainability, both as part of your course and alongside it, developing the skills to make a positive impact that you can then demonstrate to future employers.
See more about developing sustainability skills.
VIPs are research-based projects where students and staff collaborate on solving long-term, real-world issues. Our VIPs often focus on addressing global issues at a local level, and are a great way for you to apply research techniques to real-world problems while you develop your collaboration, communication, and adaptability skills.
Read more about Vertically Integrated Projects.
If you're studying for a master's degree, you might have the chance to complete a project with an external organisation instead of doing a dissertation.
Find out about consultancy projects for master's degrees.
If you study for a master's degree in the School of Management, you can take part in the Rotork Community Challenge to support local charities and disadvantaged people while developing skills for employment.
Local charities set tasks to address specific issues or campaign requirements. The results are judged by business and management experts, and the winning team’s charity receives a donation from Bath-based engineering company, Rotork.
We have partner institutions across the globe, including in Europe, Australia, Asia, Latin America, Canada, and the United States.
In addition to learning a new language in the place where it's spoken, studying abroad as part of your undergraduate degree can help you to develop your communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
Studying abroad also demonstrates ambition, confidence, and a willingness to embrace new ideas, all of which are of great value to employers.
Find out how you can benefit from studying abroad
While at Bath, you can use our networking site, Bath Connection, to get in touch with thousands of graduates around the world.
You can ask questions about working in a particular industry or find a mentor to learn from someone who has been at Bath and wants to help you succeed.
Find out more about Bath Connection
We can support you throughout your entrepreneurial journey, from mentoring and networking to developing business ideas.
If you want to start your own business or develop your entrepreneurial skills, you can visit our Enterprise Lab on campus or the city-based Innovation Centre for advice, encouragement, and support.
Our Student Enterprise team also offers an Entrepreneurship Programme alongside your studies. The programme includes:
You could also meet like-minded students through the Bath Entrepreneurs student group.
Universities targeted by largest number of top employers in 2024-25 by The Graduate Market in 2025. ↩
Data from HESA Graduate Outcomes survey 2022/23. Refers to full-time UK domiciled first degree 2022/23 graduates, who entered work in the UK, 15 months after completing their courses. Contains Higher Education Statistics Agency Data: Copyright Jisc 2025. Jisc cannot accept responsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived by third parties from its data. ↩
64% of students who graduated from our undergraduate courses in the 2023/24 academic year chose a placement year or study abroad option. ↩
Social Work and Pharmacy have mandatory work-based learning as part of the degree, not year placements. FdSc Sport (Sports Performance) has a placement when taken with a bachelors top-up. ↩
