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The skills acquired on any good degree will fit you for a wide range
of graduate-level jobs. Even there, a Computing degree can be an advantage.
Computing is so pervasive in our world, that a good understanding of its
potential gives you an advantage in many jobs. So if you want to join
the Foreign Office or take a marketing job with Marks and Spencers or
become an Army officer, then a degree in Computing is at least as good
as any other degree to start you on your way (better for some careers,
because the understanding of computing it gives you can be an advantage
in many jobs).
Some jobs outside the Computing industry that do depend directly on the
skills acquired on the course are teaching at school and university level,
and doing academic research.
School teaching
There is a demand for schoolteachers in Computing and IT, and at present
there are special financial arrangements to encourage people to work in
this area. The holidays are good, but it can be very hard work during
term-time.
Academic research
If you want to work on the systems of the future, and expect to get a
top class degree, then this is the job for you. In Aberystwyth at present,
we have researchers investigating:
- improving the way cars are designed
- building autonomous mobile robots
- making systems to help detectives solve crimes
- constructing flying robots to explore Mars
- learning more about what is important in genomes
- designing advanced scientific databases
- inventing robots that can learn how to do new tasks
University lecturer
Unlike a schoolteacher, teaching is not the prime task carried out by
university lecturers. The students are only present during 30 weeks of
the year. An equally important task is carrying out advanced research.
University lecturers carry out some of that research themselves, but many
of them also supervise post-graduate students and academic researchers
employed to work full-time on specific problems.
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