MSc Mining Geology

Careers and employability

A degree from the Camborne School of Mines will give you the practical and vocational skills to pursue a career in related fields, such as mining or exploration. It will also give you a range of broader skills in teamwork, problem solving and communication. We have excellent rates of graduate employment, with many of our postgraduates working abroad after graduation.

Graduates typically find employment as geoscientists in the UK and international mining and extractive industries, related support organisations (eg, consultancies, finance houses) and public service bodies (eg, geological surveys and other government agencies, including regulatory and environmental monitoring services). The MSc course also serves as a suitable foundation for PhD studies in related areas.

Examples of recent MSc Mining Geology graduate destinations:

• Bardon Aggregates
• BHP Billiton
• British Geological 
• Flemings Bank
• Gold Fields
• New Boliden 
• Pilkingtons
• Rio Tinto
• Glencore 

The Careers Advisory Service (CAS) at our Cornwall Campus provides high-quality careers information and guidance to students of all disciplines. Our experienced careers team can give you individual support whilst you are at the University and after you have graduated.

Services include talks, confidential careers interviews and an extensive careers library of reference books, magazines and journals. A new computer suite is also available for accessing online careers information, vacancy services and specialist software on, for example, sources of funding for courses and worldwide volunteering.

The CAS can help you to identify attractive jobs, careers paths and employers and assist with your CV, interview technique and identifying work experience placements.