Over the course of your three or four year degree you gain valuable skills including the hugely important ability to think critically and analytically. Our Arts graduates emerge as flexible thinkers who are ready for the challenges of the modern workplace in the years following graduation. Apart from professions requiring specialist training such as engineering and science, most career options are wide open to Maynooth’s Arts graduates. With about 40% of graduate jobs open to any discipline (gradireland.com), the quality of your degree and your ability to communicate your experience is often far more important than the content of your subjects.
Some of the areas in which Maynooth BA graduates develop their careers include:
Human resources & training
Finance
Psychology
Law
Marketing & advertising
Business
Publishing & information
Librarianship
Teaching – primary & second level
Social policy
Leisure
Travel & tourism
Media & communications
Translation
Arts & culture
Management consultancy
Computing & IT
Civil service
Medicine (graduate entry programmes)
Economics
Public relations
Political lobbying
