Question: Are there many jobs possible with a psychology degree?

Abbie Jordan answered on 7 Nov 2018:

Definitely!!! There are options in lots of different areas like counselling psychology, health psychology, educational psychology, sports psychology and clinical psychology. That’s just some examples. You can work clinically with patients (e.g. in clinical psychology or forensic psychology) or work in a university in pretty much any of those areas. For example, I am a Health Psychologist who works at the university. So I teach about health psychology and also do my own health psychology research. But I do have the qualification to practise clinically if I wanted to do so also. So options there.

Those are just options in psychology and there are others. But there are options outside of psychology too. A psychology degree equips you with some great skills like interpersonal skills, statistical skills, ability to conduct high qualilty project work and conduct analyses. Other skills being able to look at evidence carefully and write reports (very important in many job areas). So you might go and do some market research or work for an organisation like the Office of National Statistics. Some of our previous students have done this.

I really think that a psychology degree gives you lots of fantastic skills and experiences that can be applied to other areas. This might help for some other ideas – https://www.prospects.ac.uk/careers-advice/what-can-i-do-with-my-degree/psychology.

Good luck!