Professional Training placements

Unique access to the world of work

Our Professional Training placements give you the opportunity to develop your professional, academic and personal potential, equipping you to be adaptable, resilient, globally minded, confident, entrepreneurial and digitally savvy in the workplace. These qualities are widely recognised by employers and a significant proportion of placement students at Surrey are offered graduate-level jobs or go onto postgraduate study.

COURSES WITH A PLACEMENT

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Experience a placement first-hand

Find out what Sophie and Olivia gained from their placements at BMW and EA Games.

Giving you the competitive edge

Our placements will help you gain confidence, maturity and knowledge, find a focus for your final year of study and test out a career path.

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Benefits

We can equip you with the right skills to find a work placement that matches both the needs of your degree and your future career plans, as well as giving you useful links and contacts.

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Working abroad

As part of your course, you may have the opportunity to take a work placement abroad in Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia.

Course with placements

Almost every course we offer includes the option of a Professional Training placement, which lets you spend up to a year of your course working at one of more than 2,300 partner organisations in the UK and overseas.

How to apply

Professional Training placements are usually applied for and secured via an open and free-to-all process, within which students can select and apply for numerous opportunities.

What our students say

Daniel Littman

Business Management and Spanish

"I had never studied Spanish before coming to Surrey but in the space of three years I can speak it fluently, which is a real credit to the dedication and passion of my tutors."

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Holly Boothroyd

Computing and Information Technology

"For me, learning to be on my own, 5000 miles from home, has been my greatest achievement. I had to learn to adapt to a new culture, new food, new words - new everything!"