The degree allows you to choose from a wide choice of subjects to include in your degree. It also allows you to delay the choice about the direction of your studies until the end of your first year (and in some cases to the end of your second year). Each year you can normally change your choice of modules within the first three weeks of the academic year. The degree requires final-year students to undertake capstone modules which are student driven and involve independent thought, personal management of the work’s direction and are synoptic of the programmes learning outcomes. Typically, these modules will have a very small taught component and staff act as mentors, rather than delivers of information.

Durham has an excellent graduate employment record. You can open up a wide choice of careers with a Natural Sciences degree. Many employers prefer a broadly based multidisciplinary science degree rather than a specialism in a single field. Recent graduates have gone into accountancy, administration, law, advertising, the armed forces, banking, the City, the civil service, financial management, general management, information technology, marketing, publishing, retailing, teaching, telecommunications, industrial and academic research. The University has the Careers Employability and Centre to advise students about their future careers. The Careers, Employability and Enterprise Centre tracks the destinations of all graduates and they have completed an analysis of the employment destinations of the 2006 Natural Sciences graduates and the further study destinations of all 2006 graduates (scroll through to page 65 to find Natural Sciences)