Designed to drastically enhance your skill set and professional profile, this specialist degree trains students to use anthropological concepts and methods in an array of professional settings. You will explore and demonstrate the relevance of anthropological perspectives and insights to real-world problems and professional challenges.
The Anthropology and Professional Practice MSc will give you comprehensive training in social and cultural anthropology with a specific focus on its relevance to professional practice in contemporary society.
Develop your professional skill set through hands-on research-led anthropological training, enabling you to apply anthropological perspectives and insights in fields including social research, user experience research, ethnographic consultancy and design research.
There is growing demand in diverse professional fields for critically trained anthropologists, with advanced research skills increasingly relevant in non-academic contexts.
Graduate an expert in applying anthropological concepts and methods to professional practice challenges, fully equipped to pursue a successful career in any professional setting requiring strong project management, problem-solving and communication skills.
This course will give you the skills to be able to solve problems and issues, and to build positive working relationships. This means you will be a good team player, who can manage and delegate to others and take on responsibility.
Through your independent research project, you will develop skills highly sought after by employers, including data analysis and interpretation and the communication of complex ideas.
Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of graduates in the 2018–2024 cohorts.
UCL Anthropology graduates work in a diverse range of industry sectors, and this course would be suit careers in the following sectors: