Graduate Destinations
How does a degree in the Study of Religions help with my career?
A degree in Study of Religions from SOAS enables students to follow many different careers. Study of Religions graduates leave SOAS with an important knowledge and understanding of peoples’ different culture, history and beliefs concerning fundamental issues.  Graduates are also equipped with a portfolio of widely transferable skills which employers seek in many professional and management careers in both business and public sectors. These include; the ability to research, amass and order information from a variety of sources ,often both in the original or other relevant languages; analytical skills to assess critically the materials relevant to a specific issue; written and oral communication skills to present, discuss and debate opinions and conclusions; and problem solving skills.
Former Department of Religion students have gone on to employment in a range of professional roles in business and public sectors, as well as continuing in the field of research either at SOAS or other institutions.
Destinations of recent graduates from this department immediately after graduation include:
- Free Fair DRC: Translator / Social Media Facilitator
- Hare Krishna Movement: Head of Development
- Groundwork: Green Champion
- University of Hargersa: Teaching English
- Envision: Youth Charity Intern
- 3 Faiths Forum: Education Intern
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Desk Officer Kuwait & Assistant Desk Officer Saudi Arabia
- Invisible Structures: Director
- Infoplan International: PR Assistant
- JET: Assistant Language Teacher
- Yeni International: Operations Director
- University of Cambridge: PhD Sanskrit and South Asian Studies
- University of Oxford: MA Theology
- The Mind Gym Ltd: Client Executive
- City Lit: Librarian
- Christian Solidarity Worldwide: Team Leader South Asia
- Queen Victoria Hospital: Specialist Optometrist
- University of Munich: Post Doctoral Researcher
- Church of England: Vicar
- Darenth Valley Hospital: General Surgeon
- Employability Forum: Charity Intern
- Islamic Book Trust: Editor
- Moore Services Ltd: Managing Director
- Jenny Black Designs: Accounts Manager
- Canon Collins Trust: Scholarships Programme Manager
- University of Leeds: Research Fellow
- Durham University: Philosophy Lecturer
- Broadway London: Project Worker
- Traymans: Solicitor
- Wexham Park Hospital: Doctor
- GCHQ: Business Improvement Adviser
- Greenwich Children's Fund: Project Coordinator
- Initiatives of Change: Convenor
- Columbian Fathers: Missionary worker
- Cowerston Trust: Senior Minister
- Buddhist College of Singapore: Academic Dean
- St Mary's University College: Teaching
- University of Exeter: PhD Arab & Islamic Studies
- SOAS: PhD Study of Religions (Tibet)
- Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies: Sanskrit & Spoken Tibetan
DLHE Statistics
The chart above shows that SOAS Study of Religions graduates are very employable. Graduate Destination Surveys from 2004-2011 show that 88% of graduates who could be surveyed are either in work, further study, volunteering or work and study.
Further information about DLHE is available on the Careers Service website.
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