Students enrolled on our courses explore the fascinating stories of artists and artworks from around the world, but they also build up a wide range of important skills to support their future careers.
Many of these include skills key to all humanities disciplines: an ability to produce clear and compelling writing, to read and understand complex texts, to gather research from across sources and disciplines, and to advance persuasive arguments. But we also prepare our students to understand and analyse visual materials, an essential skill in our increasingly image-saturated world.
Equipped with this diverse and rigorous training, our students have gone on to work in virtually every area of the Arts & Cultural Sector, as well as in many other fields. Recent graduates now work in prestigious institutions such as the British Museum, National Trust, Victoria & Albert Museum, Sainsbury Centre, Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Philip Mould & Co, and Christies.
Our degrees set students up brilliantly for careers in, for example:
- Curating and Museum Education
- Arts Journalism and Publishing
- Art Conservation
- Cultural Heritage
- Arts Management and Financial Development
We’re proud that in the recent 2023 National Student Survey, 96% of students felt our courses had significantly developed their knowledge and skills, nearly 20% above the national average in UK Higher Education.
To find out more about UEA’s commitment to our students’ future in the world of work, you can read more here about CareerCentral, a team of dedicated colleagues who support students across the university in thinking about employability and life beyond UEA.