As an Undergraduate student in the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences you will have the option of spending your third year gaining work experience in the context of a Professional Training placement. The placement scheme provides you with an opportunity to work with public and private sector organisations and thereby gain experience of professional roles and acquire key employability sills.

At Surrey we are extremely proud of our Professional Training placement programme. Not just because we’ve been doing it for a very long time. Not just because it’s world-famous. Not just because it’s still one of the best programmes of its kind in the world.

It’s also because of the transformational effect it has on the people who take part in it – people like you.

Our prestigious placement partners tell us that Surrey students stand out among their peers. These organisations recognise Surrey students as the ones who are well prepared, professionally aware, passionate about their own development and eager to show what they can do.

Whether your placement is in the UK, Europe, the Americas or Asia or  you will be visited several times by a current member of the teaching staff from your School or Department.

No other university anywhere in the world has a placement programme like this. As a result, no other university has professional, experienced, seriously impressive graduates like ours.

Here are a few examples of companies our students have had placements with:

Department of Sociology

• Home Office
• Ministry of Justice
• Sentencing Council
• House of Lords
• Probation Service
• Youth Offending Service
• Metropolitan Police
• British Market Research Bureau
• Guildford Pupil Referral Unit
• IBM

School of Arts

• Foundation for Community Dance
• Green Candle
• Greenwich Dance Agency
• Ludus Dance Centre
• Northern Ballet Theatre
• Rambert Dance Company
• Sadler’s Wells
• South East Dance
• The Place Artist Development
• Birmingham Royal Ballet
• Cloud Gate Dance Theatre
• Phoenix Dance Theatre
• London Symphony Orchestra
• Royal Opera House
• Schott Music Publishing
• London Philharmonic Orchestra
• South Hill Park Arts Centre
• HMV
• Royal School of Church Music
• Orchestra of St Johns (OSJ)
• Faber Music Publishers
• Sherriff Rosebriars

School of English and Languages

• EDF
• Johnson and Johnson
• Lloyds Banking Group
• Eurosport, Hilton Hotels
• Volkswagen
• Mazda Motor Europe
• Ernst & Young
• German Academic Exchange Service

School of Politics

• Save the Children
• IPSOS MORI
• Cape Town Refugee Centre
• Transport for London
• GlaxoSmithKline
• International School of Central Switzerland
• Shadow Defence Secretary's Office
• Conservative party
• Labour party
• Socialist Workers Party

School of Psychology

• Home Office
• Institute of Psychiatry
• BMG Records
• IBM
• Metropolitan Police
• HMP Holloway
• Royal Marsden Hospital
• Guildford Pupil Referral Unit
• More House School
• National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy
• Action on Addiction
• CAMHS – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for Surrey
• SADAS - Southern Addictions Advisory Service
• North Carolina State University
• The Science Museum, London
• University of Kent