
Recruiting our postgraduates

At the University of Birmingham, we have a community of over 9,300 postgraduate students who have chosen to take their education to the next level. Due to the dedication, motivation and specialisation that postgraduate study requires, they have a lot to offer your workplace.
What's the difference between a postgraduate and an undergraduate?
What's the difference between a postgraduate and an undergraduate?
Postgraduate courses are designed to challenge students at a high level. As a result, some of the key areas where postgraduates stand out include:
- Appreciating different viewpoints and ideas
- Dealing with more complex ideas and problems
- Original, independent thought
- Applying learning to different domains or situations
- Engaging in-depth in a specialist topic
- Critical research and enquiry skills
- Wider repertoire of research techniques and methods
- Self-organisation and self-motivation
- Seeing things in a larger context, e.g. the context of national policy, law or historical context
- Excellent data analysis and interpretation skills
- Skills in project management
- Self-motivation and drive
- Experience in disseminating research and conveying complex ideas to audiences
- Transferable skills and personal qualities including resilience and determination to succeed
These are all qualities that postgraduate courses encourage students to develop and display.
Recruiting postgraduate taught students
Taught postgraduates from the University of Birmingham are highly skilled and employable.
Recruiting postgraduate research students (including PhD)
Postgraduate research students have a variety of skills to offer as well as their specialist subject knowledge and research abilities.
How to engage with our postgraduates
We offer a range of opportunities for companies and organisations of all sizes to meet and engage with our postgraduate students.
Birmingham Business School postgraduates
Find out how you can engage with our MBA and MSc students at Birmingham Business School