Financial services: roles for doctoral graduates

Data from ‘What Do Researchers Do?' shows that three and a half years after graduation, around 10.4% of doctoral graduates were known to be working in finance, business and IT, the grouping that contains the finance industry, and that the proportion was up slightly from the 9.4% seen six months after graduation.

Doctoral graduates from recent years are known to have worked in the following profiled roles:

• Actuaries
• Chartered accountants
• Economists
• Financial analysts
• Investment bankers
• IT consultants
• Management consultants
• Public relations officers
• Research mathematicians
• Social science, arts and humanities researchers
• Software designers, programmers and engineers
• Solicitors
• Statisticians
• Trainers