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About Philosophy
Learn to think more critically about the world around us, tackling the philosophical problems faced by today’s decision-makers.
In our thriving community, you’ll have support from a dedicated team of tutors and supervisors, who’ll help you to hone and develop your philosophy. Apply your theoretical skills through company projects, volunteering and placements with our partner organisations. Our philosophy graduates find employment in teaching, accounting / finance, social work, the civil service, law, media, journalism, personnel, project management and the voluntary sector.
And if you want to specialise you can create your own learning pathway. Explore original, advanced philosophical research from a postgraduate perspective and ideal gateway to MPhil or PhD-level research.
Careers in Philosophy
Studying Philosophy will help you to develop a broad range of transferable skills prized by employers. It encourages intellectual innovation, imagination and enterprise, and helps to cultivate the crucial philosophical skills for implementing research exercises: flexibility, project management, adaptability, independence, autonomous learning, creative and critical reasoning, and problem-solving.
Our recent graduates have secured roles at companies including:
- British Airways
- HMRC
- Home Office
- Nottingham City of Literature
- University of Salford
- Boots
- Oxfam
- Teach First
- Capital One
- Creative Video Productions
They have gone into a wide variety of job roles including:
- Charity Manager
- Civil Servant
- Teacher
- Health and Safety Manager
- Human Resources Administrator
- Marketing Coordinator
- Planning Officer
- Research Assistant
- Lecturer
Our graduates
Lydia Birtwistle-Sawyer discusses how her Philosophy course at NTU has helped to set up her career.
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Our department brings together writers, editors, scholars, linguists and philosophers, taking the most stimulating insights from the fields of English literature, linguistics, philosophy and creative writing to consider the values that made us who we are today.
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