MSc/PgDip Surveying and Land/Environmental Management

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.

Examples of recent graduate destinations:

  • Land Surveyor
  • Mine Surveyor
  • Estates Officer
  • Civil Engineering Surveyor
  • Design and implementation of environmental management systems
  • Land Planning
  • Minerals Planning

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.