Employability
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is one of the world’s leading institutions in the field of global health, and wide-ranging and excellent career opportunities are available to our graduates. Statistics about graduate destinations are given on Unistats. Our graduates go on to work in a range of professions in NGOs, ministries of health, health services in the UK and overseas, academia, charities and private industry.
Please click here for online career resources and here for case studies from the recent alumni tracing project.
Specific employability opportunities and accreditation details are given on course web pages. All of our courses are at postgraduate level, cover specialist health disciplines, have a significant applied focus and are taught, supervised and regularly updated by international expert researchers, practitioners and clinicians. The School’s global links and reputation also mean we attract leading health professionals as guest lecturers. Students benefit from access to cutting-edge and our teaching aims to improve the knowledge and skills students take into their professional lives. Full-time, part-time and distance learning courses offer considerable flexibility in work-study options.
Lifelong professional networking is facilitated by the diversity of student and alumni backgrounds, from over 180 countries, and our extensive collaborations with institutions in over 100 countries. Work experience opportunities include research and policy groups at LSHTM or in collaborating institutions for MSc or research degree projects and can lead to employment opportunities post-graduation. Research students can gain teaching experience and have access to a range of skills training aimed at developing graduate attributes and employability - including staff development and transferable skills programmes, and training run by neighbouring colleges. Volunteering activities include our award-winning young scientists programme, with students encouraged to contribute by mentoring pupils or supervising projects; LSHTM students also give talks in schools, advise NGOs, work with charities and more.
The Careers Office provides comprehensive support as part of the University of London Careers Group Specialist Institutions’ Careers Service. This includes one-to-one guidance sessions with professional careers advisors; the JobOnline and Alert internet vacancy system helping to match students to specific vacancies; workshops to support job-seeking skills; careers information fairs, forums and presentations with employer representatives from key professions and organisations; practice interview sessions; access to physical and on-line careers libraries containing employer and sector information plus resources to help prepare students for employer interviews and assessment. Careers services reflect the varying needs of students at the School, from those with established careers who wish to change direction, to those who have come straight from their first degree and don’t know where to start. We also promote our REACH online community for those disadvantaged in the graduate recruitment market, and International Futures to address the needs of international students; while post-graduation support is offered through GradClub.
