Our Economics and Management BSc includes an optional year on placement or studying abroad as part of the course.
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.
Companies students have worked for on placement
Some examples of placement roles students on this course have undertaken include:
- Business Industrial Placement, Vodafone
- Business Management and Marketing Assistant, Panasonic
- Business Operations Support, IBM
- Financial Analyst, Butlins
- Industrial Placement, Morgan Stanley
- Project Coordinator, Computacenter
- Research Assistant, Bank of England
- Tactical Planning Analyst, Volkswagen Group UK.
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.