Career prospects

The political science graduate has a multidisciplinary education that opens up career paths in various fields, national and international, public and private, both in the non-profit and for-profit worlds.
In this file you can find some professions that represent potential job opportunities for graduates from the Political Science degree course. For each profession, the main tasks and specific activities that characterise it are described.
The professions described in the downloadable file include:

• Executives and equivalents of state administrations, non-economic public bodies and local authorities
• Research and study office staff of public bodies and organisation
• University lecturers in political and social sciences
• Ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary and senior managers in the diplomatic career (consular commissioner, embassy councillor, legation councillor, emigration and social affairs councillor consul, consul-general, minister plenipotentiary, deputy ambassador)
• Officials at international organisations
• Members of government bodies and national assemblies with legislative and regulatory powers (member of the Senate, member of the Chamber of Deputies)
• Executives of political parties and movements
• European parliamentary assistant Parliamentary aide in the Italian Parliament
• Directors and executives of the communications department publicity and public relations
• Public relations officers
• Public affairs officers
• Directors and managers of the organisation, human resources management and industrial relations department
• Human resources officers
• General affairs officers (back office clerk, administrative assistant, administrative clerk, administrative operator, secretarial staff call for tenders preparer)
• Project Manager Foreign market expert
• Researcher at trade associations, trade unions, NGOs
• Researcher at private non-profit or for-profit research organisations
• Journalist and public or private communicator
• Employment consultant
• Social media manager
• Organisers of fairs, exhibitions and cultural events
• Experts in the study, management and control of social phenomena
• Graduates in political science can also hold various roles as officials and operators in: non-governmental organisations;
• social cooperatives;
• voluntary service centres;
• environmental and territorial associations;
• cultural associations;

Graduates in political science can also hold various roles as officials and operators in:

• non-governmental organisations;
• social cooperatives;
• voluntary service centres;
• environmental and territorial associations;
• cultural associations;
• trade unions.

PLEASE NOTE:
Political science graduates are generally admitted to public competitions for access to different roles and positions within state administrations, non-economic public bodies and local authorities.
Second-cycle degree graduates in political science may participate in competitions for teaching at upper secondary schools, provided that their qualifications meet the ministerial requirements.
In particular, following the ISTAT classification of professions (2011), the Second-Cycle Degree Course in International and European Relations prepares for the profession of Control specialists in public administration (cod. 2.5.1.1.2), Economic Systems Specialists (cod. 2.5.3.1.1); Specialists in political science (cod. 2.5.3.4.3).

The second-cycle degree holder possesses:
- the ability to clearly communicate one's knowledge and the results of one's research and to competently discuss the methodologies applied;
- the ability to write formally and substantively correct texts that are rigorous in method and content.
These skills are developed through the drafting of written documents and their discussion in the classroom with lecturers and specially invited experts (e.g. internationally renowned researchers and scholars, diplomats, officials serving international organisations, international judges, military personnel and civilians involved in peacekeeping operations).