‘Graduate attributes are the qualities, skills and understandings a university community agrees its students should develop during their time with the institution. These attributes include, but go beyond, the disciplinary expertise or technical knowledge that has traditionally formed the core of most university courses. They are qualities that also prepare graduates as agents for social good in an unknown future.’ (Bowden, 2000)

St Patrick's Pontifical University believes that these attributes distinguish our graduates in a way that enables them to enhance their futures, church and society. All our programmes therefore strive to develop these attributes in our students, in a manner that compliments and challenges each individual student.

Our graduates have gone on to enjoy successful careers that include teaching, marketing, communications, journalism, public relations, finance, community development, social services, chaplaincy and parish administration

During your time with us, you will acquire transferable skills that will stand

to you regardless of your career choice, skills such as:

• Confidence in written communication and verbal expression

• Greater understanding of other viewpoints

• Exploration of ethical questions from various perspectives

• Awareness of how history has influenced today’s world

• Critical thinking and philosophical inquiry

• Understanding of how religious views have often shaped society

• Engagement with the big questions of life