School of Physics & Astronomy

MSc  - Industrial Employment of Graduates

The MSc course aims to produce graduates with appropriate knowledge, skills, and attitudes to go on to be successful in the photonics area, be it in industrial/commercial positions, or undertaking PhD study in universities.

We have a separate page showing the destinations of the most recent cohorts of graduates.

Out of 21 MSc graduates from a recent year-group, we see

  • 9 in industrial and commercial positions, including laser development, sales and marketing with consumer/office optoelectronics, product support of optical metrology equipment, theoretical modelling of photonic structures, university teaching, internship with a national laser lab, and semiconductor optoelectronics research
  • 1 starting a business Masters building on our scientific MSc
  • 8 starting a PhD programme
  • 1 starting an EngD programme (PhD level research and industrial R&D)
  • 2 unknown

Some of the locations where our MSc graduates have obtained employment include those in the following list.  A number of the graduates from this course go on to undertake work for a PhD before entering full-time employment. As well as the companies shown in the table below, some of the MSc graduates have found long-term employment in universities.

We now also have a separate page showing the destinations of some of the most recent graduates.

AWE, Aldermaston
Bookham, Abingdon, now part of Oclaro
BAe Systems (British Aerospace), Bristol and Farnborough
BAe Systems, Edinburgh, now Selex Galileo
British Telecom, Ipswich

Canon Europe

Cascade Technologies
Coherent Scotland
DERA - now QinetiQ and DSTL
Edinburgh Instruments, Livingston
Glasgow Health Board
Gooch and Housego UK Ltd
Hewlett Packard, Ipswich, now Agilent
Indigo Photonics, then part of Insensis then Moog
Medical Laser Technology, now Asclepion

M-Squared Laser, Glasgow

Microvisk
National Physical Laboratory, Teddington
Nortel, Paignton
Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven
Pilkington, Glasgow, now Thales Optronics
Renishaw, Gloucestershire
Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Oxford
Shell Research Centre, Chester
Silixa
Smiths Industries
Spectra Physics Ltd
ST Microelectronics
Taylor Hobson Ltd
Thomson-CSF, France, now Thales

 

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