Your employability
As a Masters or PhD music student at Southampton you will work with leading academics in the field. Most of our students have pursued further study in music because they want to embrace the subject in some form as a career. Postgraduate study not only offers the opportunity to develop these aspirations but to network with prolific names in the industry, including researchers, composers and performers.
If you decide to enter a different career path, employers from all sectors will look favourably on a postgraduate degree - placing significant value on your enhanced time-management, research and commitment to learning.
Career options
Our graduates enjoy successful careers in both musical and non-musical professions, including performance, composition, education, arts management, media, engineering, public service, IT and computing.
Southampton PhD graduates have an excellent track record of obtaining academic posts in the UK and abroad: university musicologists and composers with Southampton doctorates include Sarah Hibberd (Nottingham), Michael Spitzer (Durham), Bjoern Heile (Glasgow), Bethany Lowe (Newcastle), Allan Moore (Surrey), Edward Hughes (Sussex), Antonio Cascelli (Maynooth), Lee Tsang (Hull), Melanie Marshall (Cork), Victoria Vaughan (Oberlin), Peter Elsdon (Hull), Geoffrey Poole (Bristol) and Alan Marsden (Lancaster).
Humanities careers support
Humanities works with the Careers and Employability Service to develop opportunities for our postgraduate students.
Through events such as our annual postgraduate career day we explore the pathways available to those with higher degrees in the humanities with postgraduate recruiters such as IBM, local and national government, the BBC and the EU. The additional skills acquired through a masters or PhD in one of our disciplines can take you where you want to go.
