Career Opportunities
Oxford Earth Scientists are highly employable; approximately 80% of our graduates choose their first jobs in an area where their degree can be applied directly. About half of our graduates enter fields such as oil, minerals, water resources, or environmental protection and monitoring. Earth Sciences at Oxford also provides you with essential grounding for a career as a research scientist, and many of our graduates go on to higher degrees (PhD or MSc).But our graduates are attractive to a vast range of potential employers. Oxford Earth Scientists can be found at high levels in many areas of business, consultancy, and public life.
Rick Haythorthwaite (Chairman of Mastercard and Land Securities.)
“My Geoscience degree has served me well in my business career and I would recommend it to anyone who loves the subject and wants to keep career options open. Applied geoscience requires abilities that sit at the heart of good business in any sector: to evaluate risk and make ‘high stakes’ judgements; to look at issues systemically and identify patterns, drawing on a wide range of information types and sources; to take decisions based on incomplete data; to listen, learn and adapt; to build task-oriented teams and meet tight deadlines. It is, therefore, not surprising that the careers of many senior business people have been built on a geoscience platform.”