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Careers with BA (Joint-Honours)

At NUI Galway, you can choose from 154 subject combinations to create your BA (Joint-Honours), so whether you are looking for a career in media, psychology, theatre, marketing, teaching, law or business, an Arts degree is the perfect foundation for whichever pathway is right for you.

Arts graduates are amongst the most employable graduates in the world because of their versatility and ability to think critically and independently.

The current uncertainty in the employment market means that there has never been a better time to consider studying Arts. An Arts degree will provide you with a unique combination of intellectual skills, knowledge and interpersonal competence that will make you highly adaptablein a constantly changing workforce. Arts graduates are not locked into one set of skills that may become redundant in the future; they are flexible, multi-skilled critical thinkers who are well prepared to meet the challenges of the modern jobs market. The Arts degree is the perfect foundation for a wide range of interesting and rewarding careers.