A professional placement year is an excellent way to add value to your degree.
It enables you to put your skills and knowledge into and giving you substantial industry experience that can really help your CV stand out in the competitive market for graduate jobs.
A variety of industrial, commercial and research companies have received our students in recent years and good relations have been established between these companies and the Mathematical Sciences Department. Advantica, Ernst & Young, IBM, Aston Martin Lagonda, ICI, Hitachi and GSK are some examples of the companies where our students have recently completed placements.
We are able to assist you to obtain suitable placements but the final responsibility rests with you.
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.
Featured placement year companies
Students from the Department of Mathematical Sciences have found some amazing placements working with a variety of organisations, including: Accenture, PwC, Siemens, Amazon, BMW, Disney (Paris), Rolls-Royce, the NHS, Morgan Stanley, L'Oreal, Lloyds Banking Group, IBM, the Office For National Statistics, Xerox, the Bank of England, Birmingham City FC, Deloitte, GlaxoSmithKline, Aston Martin, Fujitsu, ICI, and Deutsche Bank.