Explore career options

School of Science

Computer Science

Your careers team

Careers Network is here to support you by providing information, advice, guidance, events and opportunities to enable you to secure placements, work experience, self-employment and graduate careers.

Working closely with your academic school, our team of experts ensures that every student has access to careers advice. As well as large careers fairs, we hold sector-specific events, involving employers and Loughborough alumni, to help you make valuable connections and secure high-quality placements and graduate roles.

To find out more about what we do and how we can support you, visit Meet the teams.

Details of the Placements Officers for your school can be found here.

We look forward to supporting you throughout your Loughborough journey.

Key skills developed during your degree

Subject-specific skills including:

programming languages
hardware architecture and construction
network design and engineering
software engineering
multimedia design
software tools and packages
artificial intelligence.

Transferable skills including:

teamwork and leadership
attention to detail
project management
communication
problem solving
analytical
negotiation
time management and organisation
research
report writing
numeracy
commercial awareness.

Career options

Jobs directly related to your degree

Jobs where your degree would be useful:

Further study

Further study at Loughborough University:

Our MSc programme has been developed with input from UK and international organisations, ensuring commercial relevance and equipping students with the practical skills sought by employers.

For more information, please visit the Department of Computer Science Postgraduate Study page.

Further study elsewhere:

Where do graduates go?

What do Loughborough Computer Science graduates do?

Graduates from this subject area have gone on to destinations where:

Employers included:

Sky UK, KPMG, Super Massive Games, Deloitte, Vodaphone, Expedia, IBM, Access, Bet365, Pinewood Technology, Costain, Cambridge Consultants, BAE, Amazon, RAF, BMW Financial Services, Leonardo, BNP Paribas, twitch, Sports Fusion, Next.

Roles included:

Web App Developer, Trainee Solicitor, Technology Consultant, Software Developer, Software Engineer, Cyber Security Consultant, Full Stack Developer, Cloud Engineer, Data Scientist, Online Streamer, Project Manager, Solutions Engineer, Product Analyst, Systems Engineer, Technical Product Manager, Software Consultant, Officer Cadet, Systems Analyst, Project Engineer.

Further study destinations included:

Loughborough University, Nottingham University.

Further Information:

For more information on companies graduates work for, industry links and career opportunities, visit the subject area page of the University website. You can also find out what our students say in our student stories of personal journeys through and beyond Loughborough and track the career journeys and Loughborough experiences of some of our alumni.

Resources to research career areas

Websites:

What can I do with my degree in Computer Science? Prospects
Computer Weekly
Operational Research Society - explore careers in Operational Research, analytics, and data science.
Prospects, information technology sector overview
Prospects, options with your degree in computer science

Resources to find work experience, placements and graduate jobs

Students have the option of taking a year-long placement in industry which provides an invaluable opportunity to develop their professional and technical skills further. You will receive talks in your department and one-to-one appointments to help you with the recruitment process for this.

Additionally, we advertise many opportunities for summer internships and encourage students to gain experience valuable in the workplace through extra-curricular activities such as volunteering, committee memberships, work-shadowing and part-time work.

Find a selection of useful job sites below.

Target Connect - Our website for vacancies and opportunities and internally through your department.
Year In Industry – This organisation can help match you to industrial placements. It's free to use for our students.
Gradcracker - Search for internships, placements and graduate opportunities.
TargetJobs - Browse opportunities, career sectors, internships and careers advice.
Prospects - Search for graduate jobs.
Bright Network - Search for graduate jobs, internships and placements.
Handshake – Grad jobs and internships
Milkround – Grad jobs and work experience
RateMyPlacement – For placements and internships
Student Circus - For international students - Pre-filtered jobs with UK employers who sponsor a Skilled Worker visa
Talentview Aviation and Talentview Construction industry related graduate jobs and opportunities listed here.
LinkedIn Jobs
STEM Graduates - Search for STEM specific graduate jobs.
Jobs.ac.uk – academic related jobs board
Student Ladder - Search for graduate jobs, internships and placements.
TalentMatch – Loughborough University’s own internship programme.