A level Careers

Can I do Civil engineering, Clinical engineering, fire-safety engineering or become a data scientist with my a levels? My a levels are mathematics, biology and physical education.

Reply 1

harikrishsomu

Original post by rosai

Can I do Civil engineering, Clinical engineering, fire-safety engineering or become a data scientist with my a levels? My a levels are mathematics, biology and physical education.

Depends really, most engineering courses will mandate physics and physical education will prove no use in this case. You could however, pursue data science, but that also depends very much on the university course and entry requirements

Reply 2

Lucy Alexander

Original post by rosai

Can I do Civil engineering, Clinical engineering, fire-safety engineering or become a data scientist with my a levels? My a levels are mathematics, biology and physical education.

For civil engineering, physics is usually a required A-Level subject but at a lot of universities you will be able to apply to do a foundation year to get yourself up to the required knowledge level. Clinical engineering and fire-safety engineering are usually studied as a specific Masters following a Bachelors in engineering (still check specific course requirements), and as most engineering undergraduate courses will have the same physics requirement, a foundation year would still be the best route for you.

Data science (obviously course-dependent) should only require maths A-Level for an undergraduate degree but this courses relevant to this field aren't always just titled 'Data science' (for example at University of Bath there is a course called 'Mathematics, Statistics, and Data Science') so its worth looking around at what these courses entail and working out what exactly interests you.