Boost your career prospects
86% of graduate employers are interested in abilities rather than specific subjects studied.
Studying in a multidisciplinary way means you can study across many different subject areas. Learning this way shows employers that you’re flexible and adaptable. It showcases the critical skills you’ve developed along the way. In fact, employers we work with have described OU students as ‘self-starters’, ‘adaptable’, ‘diverse’, ‘determined’, and ‘ambitious’.
Having an Open qualification on your CV shows more than your level of knowledge about a subject. You’ll have acquired a highly employable set of skills and attributes, including:
- initiative, self-management and resilience
- commercial awareness
- communication
- collaboration
- digital literacy
- numeracy
- problem-solving.