Furthering your career

It can sometimes be hard to know which postgraduate course to study to develop your career to suit your interests and aspirations.

These are just some of the postgraduate qualifications we offer:

• If you'd like to train as a primary school teacher and make a difference to children's lives, our PGCE Primary course will give you Qualified Teacher Status.
•  After successfully completing our MA Art Therapy course, you'll be eligible for professional registration with the Health Professions Council to practise as an art therapist.
• If you choose to study our MBA (CMI accredited), you'll develop your strategic and specialist knowledge and make an immediate business impact by applying your learning to your workplace and improving company performance straight away.
•  If you want to become an environmental health practitioner, our MSc Environmental Health course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and the Royal Health Institute of Scotland, so it's well regarded in the industry, up to date and relevant.
• Our MSc Advanced Practice course is ideal for you if you're an advanced practitioner, or you're working towards advanced practice status, in a role that involves high level decision making and problem solving tasks.
• If you're from a computing, legal or law enforcement background and want to extend your professional interests in an area that is quickly becoming crucially important to organisations, choose MSc Forensic Computing and Security.
• Our MSc Civil Engineering and Construction Management course will enable you to gain the skills you need to be able to manage sustainable built environment and construction projects.

What our students say

"The PGCE Primary course at Derby is fantastic! There are so many opportunities to widen your knowledge and experience of teaching here. The staff are extremely supportive in the experience, and helped me to realise and reach my full potential."

 Leanne Gotheridge, one of our graduates

"I have really enjoyed the relaxed and informal learning of the subjects as they are genuinely interesting and applicable to working life. It's been tough at times to find a suitable balance, doing the course at the same time as working full time, but so far it has been very fulfilling."

 John Rodgers is studying the LLM Commercial Law online