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You might be surprised at where a STEM degree can take you

Meet Hildur Einarsdottir, Director of Global Product Management (Prosthetics) at Össur, who earned a Master of Science (MSc) in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London in 2006.

A STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degree gives you access to industries where suitably qualified graduates are in high demand.

The UK, for example, is currently facing a shortfall of 22,000 graduate engineers a year.

This is not confined to engineering or to the UK. Huge changes in technology mean there is global demand for highly-skilled STEM graduates across a wide range of industries. From data statisticians in marketing to ethical hackers.

Currently, women make up just 14.4% of all people working in STEM in the UK, despite being about half of the workforce.

You'll be amazed by the variety of industries that an Imperial degree can open doors to.

Explore the career paths that our Imperial women have taken below.

Katy Hedgethorne (BSc Biochemistry with a Year in Industry/Research), Researcher and scientist within the NHS, making discoveries in developmental biology.

Libby Jackson (BSc Physics 2002), UK Space Agency’s manager of Human Spaceflight (astronauts) and Microgravity.

Katie Lawrence (MSc Advanced Computational Methods for Aeronautics, Flow Management and Fluid-Structure Interaction) worked as a Race Operations Engineer for the McLaren Formula 1 team before moving to her role as project manager for the aerospace and defence firm Thales.

Ruth Lawson (Physics), Engineer for radical technology, improving cancer detection.

Jackie Turner (MSc Life Sciences 2017), environmental science filmmaker, who led a team of ecologists and biologists in Costa Rica to document alternative systems to produce bananas.