Former students from Brighton Business School have gone on to perform outstandingly well in industry, academia and the public sector. They regularly feature in news articles, and many have contributed to the success of the school.
Our alumni are employed in a wide range of positions with organisations based in over 100 countries worldwide.
Notable Brighton Business School alumni include:
- Oliver Greenfield, Head of Sustainable Business Unit, WWF
- Dan Hawes, Co-founder, Graduate Recruitment Bureau
- Anji Hunter, Director, The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering at the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Jill McDonald, CEO & President of McDonald's UK
- JC Reid, Head of Skint Records
- Martin Webb, entrepreneur and television presenter
- John Rankin Waddell, portrait and fashion photographer
A high proportion of our successful graduates revisit the school to advise on course and module development, to mentor current students, or to offer work placements.
Graduate destinations
Each year the university carries out a destination survey to investigate what our graduates are doing six months' after completing their course. Last year, 85% of graduates from the University of Brighton were either employed or studying further six months after graduating.
A second destination survey is done after three-and-a-half years and the last survey, carried out in 2010 showed that:
- 96% of the university's graduates were employed or undertaking further study
- over 75% were working at graduate level, undertaking work requiring degree-level skills and understanding.
Read more about successful alumni of the Brighton Business School.
