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Placements are similar to internships in that they are structured work experience schemes through which university students enter the workplace, discover what it is like to work in a particular career sector and to develop useful skills. The term placement, rather than internship, has traditionally been used when a student had to undertake the work experience as part of their degree course – but these days some employers use the terms placement and internship interchangeably.
What kinds of placement are there? A placement year (otherwise known as a year-in-industry or a sandwich year) typically lasts between 24 and 50 weeks and is held between your penultimate and final year of studies. Summer placements, unsurprisingly, run during the university summer holidays; they are typically aimed at penultimate-year students, but some might be open to other year groups.
If you make a good impression as a placement student, many employers will either offer you a job for after graduation or put you straight through to the final stages of their graduate recruitment process; in some cases, they may also sponsor (AKA cover some of the costs of) your final year.
Intersystems
Technical Graduate
Windsor
Balfour Beatty
Innovations Industrial Placement - Power - Maxim - 2025
Glasgow
Commercial Aviation Solutions
Business Management Year in Industry Placement 2025-2026
Crawley
Bishop Fleming
12 Month Industrial Placement (September 2025 Start)
Cheltenham
Acron Aviation
Project Management Year in Industry Placement 2025-2026
Crawley
Bishop Fleming
12 Month Industrial Placement
Exeter
Zenith Vehicles
Software Engineer Student Placement 12 month FTC
Leeds
£20,000 - £25,000
DF Capital
Finance Student Placement
Manchester
Red Bull Racing & Red Bull Technology
Mechanical Design ICE Student Placements
Milton Keynes
Envisics
Photonics Industrial Placement - 12 Months
Milton Keynes
University Of Portsmouth
IS Placement Student - Service and Technology Delivery - Network & Security
Portsmouth
£20,000 - £25,000
Envisics
Product Development - Industrial Placement - 12 months
Milton Keynes