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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.

Audit 12-Month Placement, Newcastle, September 2026
Newcastle upon Tyne

Placement Student - Catalyst Performance & Integration
Darlington, UK

Placement Student - Quality Laboratory Operations
Darlington, UK

Kepak Technical (Food Safety) 12 Month Industrial Placement Programme 2026
Kirkham, Preston
£25,000

Information Security Placement - 12 months - Leicester
Leicester
£25,294

DevOps Engineer Placement - 12 months - Leicester
Leicester
£25,294

Business & Financial Advisory Industrial Placement
London

Risk Advisory Industrial Placement

Consulting Industrial Placement
London

Developer Placement - 12 months
Leicester, Doncaster, South Elmsall
£25,294

Test Analyst Placement - 12 months - Leicester
Leicester
£25,294

Student Placement pRED Clinical Operations
Welwyn Garden City