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Read more about possible career opportunities that the BSc Information in Society may lead to and the range of support on offer, including from UCL's Alumni Relations team.
As a graduate of the BSc Information in Society programme, you will develop the following skills and attributes to prepare you for a wide range of life and career choices:
- The technical skills needed to create, organise, manage and disseminate data and information.
- The humanities skills needed to effectively design, develop, model, and deploy solutions to issues facing society.
- The communication skills to articulate your knowledge to a range of audiences and explore ways of exchanging ideas in writing and orally, whether online or face to face.
- Knowledge of how to work confidently and collaboratively alongside peers, professionals, or community partners.
- Able to work with information, people and organisations in an ethical manner, and understand the role of ethics in information decisions.
You may also choose to go on to further study, and would be a strong candidate for Masters degrees in the Department of Information Studies (knowledge, information and data science, digital humanities, publishing, library science, and archival science), as well as in adjacent fields such as the humanities, social sciences, and technology degrees, for example.
With an interdisciplinary background that combines humanities and technology, strong communication and leadership skills, and embedded exposure to collaboration strategies, we believe that graduates of the BSc Information in Society should be attractive to employers with real-world problems to solve.
The programme is designed to prepare you for a range of future-focused and information-driven careers, both in the UK and internationally. You will graduate ready to contribute to a number of fields, including:
- Policy, research, and consultancy organisations
- Data analysis and information management
- Charitable/third sector organisations and social enterprise
- The creative industries and cultural heritage, including libraries, archives, museums, publishing, journalism, and digital humanities organisations.
- Tech companies and startups
- Government
- Education
UCL alumni
You will join a talented, global community of over 300,000 UCL alumni to exchange knowledge, ideas and advice beyond your graduation. You will have access to mentoring, discussion groups and networking opportunities to meet inspirational UCL alumni to help navigate your future career options. Through a range of lifelong learning options and regional networks, you will become part of a community that is re-imagining and making a difference.