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YEAR IN INDUSTRY
A Year in Industry is an opportunity to spend a year in employment during your studies, and is available to all undergraduate students studying within the School of Management. It will provide you with invaluable experience in the real working world and will help you develop a range of skills which will make you an attractive candidate for jobs after graduating. There are countless benefits to completing a year in industry; and we’re proud that we can offer placement opportunities as part of all our undergraduate courses. Our Year in Industry degrees are four-year degree programmes, where your third year is spent working in industry.
The 12-month placement is a credit-bearing (worth 120 credits), assessed part of a 4 year degree programme. This means that your performance on the assessment and completion of the placement will have an impact on your final degree classification, just as a year of taught modules would. OUR EMPLOYER LINKS INCLUDE Although securing a placement is the responsibility of the student, we work with a number of organisations who provide a range of placement opportunities. If you are unable to secure a placement by the end of the second year of your studies you will transfer onto the final year of your degree programme.
I completed an industrial placement at one of the big four professional services firms, Ernst & Young (EY), working within Finance Consulting at the London Canary Wharf office. Completing an industrial placement as part of my degree has been an invaluable experience, and I secured a place on their graduate programme all before my final year at Swansea began. I highly recommend students to take a placement year to gain an insight into what they want to do after university.
JACINTHA DE SILVA Placement: Ernst & Young | Position: Finance Consulting
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