After you graduate
You'll graduate ready for a successful career in industry, having gained hands-on experience, practical, professional and technical skills.
Graduate destinations include Rolls-Royce, Atkins, Alstom, Formula 1, Lockheed Martin, British Aerospace, British Airways, McLaren and Subsea 7.
Examples of recent graduate destinations
Types of jobs
- Mechanical engineer
- Applications technical engineer (engineering estimator)
- Reliability engineer
- Senior interior project engineer
- Automotive technician
- Design engineer
- Project manager
Employers
- Mitsubishi
- Thales
- Eurostar
- BAE Systems
- Laing O'Rourke
- Thermo Plastiki
- Denso Manufacturing
Careers and recruitment advice
The Faculty has a specialist employability team. It provides friendly and high-quality careers and recruitment guidance, including advice and sessions on job-seeking skills such as CV preparation, application forms and interview techniques. Specific advice is also available for international students about the UK job market and employers' expectations and requirements.
The team runs employer events throughout the year, including job fairs, key speakers from industry and interviews on campus. These events give you the opportunity to hear from, and network with, employers in an informal setting.
Employability preparation at Kingston University
In addition to building expertise in your own discipline, our courses will also help you to develop key transferable skills that you'll need for professional life or further study once you graduate.
As well as a range of careers and employability activities at Kingston, we also offer you the chance to apply and develop your skills in live contexts as an integral part of your course. Opportunities include:
- placements;
- working or studying abroad;
- volunteering;
- peer mentoring roles; and
- internship opportunities within and outside the University.
In your final year, you'll get the opportunity to complete a major 'capstone' project where you can apply the knowledge and skills you have acquired to a range of real issues in different contexts. This is a great way to learn and is a valuable bridge to employment or further research at masters level.
Courses available after you graduate
If you decide that you would like to go on to postgraduate study after your undergraduate course, we offer a 10% discount on our postgraduate course tuition fees to our alumni.