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 Cascade Technologies |
M-Squared Laser, Glasgow Microvisk |
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