Career Options

The Bachelor programs in English Literature and Linguistics prepare students for later employment in a range of areas, particularly education, editing, journalism, PR, advertising, marketing, film, translation, administration, and diplomacy, as well as for advanced studies at Master level.

The Master program provides further qualifications for the fields mentioned above, including more senior positions. It also constitues a prerequisite for the Lehrdiplom für Maturitätsschulen (teaching diploma). Moreover, graduates with a strong academic record will have the option of pursuing a PhD and thus lay the basis for a possible career in higher education.

The Fachverein Anglistik FAVA have prepared a brochure in which former students of English talk about their current jobs: how they got there, and why studying English prepared them for the type of work they do today.

• Career Brochure: Alumni Portraits (PDF, 3 MB)

• The Lang-lit.ch website contains a section with portraits of former students of language and literature: https://www.lang-lit.ch/lang-lit/studium/berufe/arbeitsfelder.
• The Perspektiven series is mainly aimed at prospective students, but the publications also contain portraits of people who studied the subject in question: https://shop.sdbb.ch/studienwahl-hochschulen-1/perspektiven-studienrichtungen-und-tatigkeitsfelder.html.
• The Berufberatung.ch website contains a subsection for students: https://www.berufsberatung.ch/dyn/show/11086.
• UZH Career Services organize career events and also offer counseling for students: https://www.careerservices.uzh.ch/en/counseling.html.