At Loughborough Business School, we strongly believe that undertaking a placement year or year abroad is a transformative step in your education. This experience not only prepares you to become industry-ready but also equips you with the skills to progress with purpose and make a real impact in your future career.

With 80% of our students across our six undergraduate business programmes choosing to enhance their learning through a placement, study abroad, or entrepreneurial venture, the benefits speak for themselves: 50% receive a job offer from their placement company, demonstrating the value and momentum this year can bring to your professional journey.

A salaried professional placement helps you test-drive a career and stand out with employers. Our final year students regularly tell us how the experience helps them better understand the material we teach in the final year, and their job prospects.

Your placement will typically be a graduate trainee role in a major UK company. You can take up to three different placements over the year, or spend six months on placement and six months studying abroad.

Our dedicated Placements Office will help you secure a placement. We work with hundreds of leading employers of all sizes around the world, who regularly target our students for salaried placement positions. Around half of our students are offered a graduate job by their placement employer.

Find out more about going on placement

Additional award

This course comes with the option to undertake a professional placement for a year, at the end of which you will gain a Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS). This is an additional award to the final qualification you will receive once you have successfully completed this course.

Companies students have worked for on placement

Some examples of placement roles students on this course have undertaken include:

  • Analytics and Interactions Intern, Lloyds Banking Group
  • Business Operations Analyst, IBM
  • Cloud Security Intern, Nationwide Building Society
  • Credit Risk Analyst, The Very Group
  • Product Management Intern, Spotify
  • Product Planning and Strategy Placement, Aston Martin
  • Supply Chain Analyst, John Lewis & Partners.

Why Take a Placement Year at Loughborough Business School?

Our professional placement year option gives you the opportunity to try out a career and gain practical work-based skills and experience, which provide an essential competitive edge in the graduate job market.