The latest available figures* show that 94% of our recent graduates were in employment or further study. This is a higher figure than that achieved by graduates from Oxford, Cambridge, Southampton and Warwick.
* Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
Our Professional Training placement programme is admired by other universities around the world.
Over 1,000 partner organisations work with us to provide students from all parts of the University with vital experience of the professional environment. What makes our Professional Training placements so good? They’re built into your degree programme, not bolted onto it.
Our campus hosts major national facilities such as the Ion beam Centre, which academics from other universities come here to use. These facilities allow our Award-winning researchers to change the world in important fields such as safe water, sustainable energy, communication, disease control and health.
£12m Ivy Arts Centre and Guildford School of Acting; £36m Surrey Sports Park, host to 15 teams; £35m 5G Research Centre for the next generation of mobile communications; £47m School of Veterinary Science; £70m Manor Park student village; £13m new Library & Learning Centre.
Featuring world-class facilities and host to a number of professional teams, athletes and sporting events, if you're into your sport, the multi-million-pound centre will soon be a place you'll grow to love.
International Student Advisors will offer professional advice on any matter that is particular to the international community — for example, immigration and visa issues, police registration, part-time employment regulations and any language or study skills problems.
They offer support from the moment you choose Surrey, throughout your studies and beyond graduation if you are looking for employment or further study in the UK.
Email: international@surrey.ac.uk
At Surrey, we offer a variety of good-quality accommodation, with a choice of several different price bands.
Arranged in Courts of Residence (groups of self-catered housing), our campus accommodation has been carefully designed to meet your needs and provide you with a comfortable living space to make your own.
The Careers and Placements Fair, held every autumn, is the biggest event in the Careers Service's calendar.
As a Surrey graduate you will be very employable. Our Careers Service offers a wide range of support and resources to help you with career decisions.
Conveniently situated on campus, the Careers Service is staffed by professional careers advisers who will help you to identify your skills and strengths and find the right opportunities.
We offer a variety of services to help you become the ideal job candidate, including:
Help doesn’t stop once your course ends. Careers advice and support is available to University of Surrey graduates too.
As a University of Surrey student you have the opportunity to work or study abroad as part of your degree. There are study exchange opportunities in many subject areas, and the majority of students can choose to work abroad for their Professional Training year.
Our Professional Training placement programme is one of the best in the world. Some students spend their placements with a UK company or organisation, some go to Europe or further afield.
In the past two years students have been on placements in Peru, Mexico, New Zealand, African countries and Australia. Others do projects with research organisations. During placements students are visited by teaching staff.
Going to university is a big step, so we’ll help you to feel at home right from the moment you arrive.
Surrey students voted our Welcome Week programme the best in the country in the 2010 i-graduate survey, and we’re proud of the way the whole campus community helps new arrivals to find their feet.
We realise that you may need extra support even after your first few weeks, so we have created an extended settling-in programme that continues to Christmas and New Year. And that’s only the beginning...
Whether you’re into clubbing or comedy, live music or pub quizzes, you’ll find plenty to keep you entertained without even having to leave campus.
Our Students’ Union houses five bars and three food outlets, so you’re bound to find something that appeals to you.
Rubix, the Students’ Union’s 1,600-capacity nightclub, has the finest sound and light facility of any Union club in the country. Individual music tastes are catered for, with several music societies which stage gigs from trance, dance and funk to indie, rock and metal.
