Improve your employability with a School of Management work placement
Get real work experience and earn a salary with an undergraduate placement at one of our partner companies.
Learn business, live business
We want to help kickstart your career. That’s why all of our undergraduate courses offer work placement opportunities.
Placements let you put your studies into action in a real job while learning about a particular industry. Most pay a real salary. Employers often look for workplace experience and many make graduate offers to students as a direct result of placements.
We have over 400 company partners from across all business sectors and of all sizes.
With our worldwide connections, the globe is at your fingertips.
Placements are not guaranteed, but our dedicated Placements Team will do everything they can to support you through the process.
The placement advantage
There are many benefits to doing a work placement.
Work placements are:
- valued by employers
- a way to give you an advantage in a competitive job market
- a chance to try out a career you are considering
- a way to gain new skills (and sometimes professional qualifications)
- a potential route into full-time employment
How placements work on our courses
All of our BSc courses offer work placement opportunities.
Placements on our undergraduate courses
BSc Accounting & Finance, BSc Accounting & Management and BSc Finance
- a 12-month placement in Year Three of the four-year course
- takes place summer to summer
BSc Business
- a 12-month placement in Year Three. Choose between
- a 12-month work placement
- two six-month work placements
- an International Academic Exchange followed by a work placement
BSc International Management & Modern Languages
- work placement in Year Three of the four-year course
- placement only option: at least nine months with a company in another country
- study abroad option: an academic year studying at one of our partner business schools in France, Spain, Germany, Latin America or Canada
- combination: one semester studying and one semester working
- takes place summer to summer
BSc Management
- a 12-month placement in Year Three of the four-year course
- takes place summer to summer
BSc Management with Marketing
- 12-month placement in Year Three of the four-year course. Placements must be in a marketing role
- takes place summer to summer
BSc International Management
- work placement in Year Three of the four-year course.
- placement only option: at least six months with an international company
- study abroad option: study at one of our partner business schools
- combination: one semester studying and one semester working
- takes place summer to summer
We recommend that all students study or work abroad, but it's possible to stay in the UK for your placement if:
- you're working at a multinational company
- your role has a significant international aspect
Improve your employability
We work hard to help you gain an advantage in a competitive job market.
We’ve designed our courses to give you the skills you need to succeed in the working world. Because of the business focus in the classroom and our placements, .
Stand-out candidates are more than their degree. Put your key skills to the test. Take your experience forward as you start your career.
Undergraduate placement stories: Wild
BSc Business students Neroli and Natasha share the opportunities that have been available to them on their placement at Wild.
Placing you with the right company
We have strong connections with some of the world’s leading businesses.
Our Placements Team will help you:
- find the right placement
- complete your applications
- prepare for interviews and assessment centres
Current placement employers include:
Consultancy/professional services
- PwC
- Accenture
- Deloitte
- EY
FMCGs and retail
- Kraft Heinz
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- Unilever
- GlaxoSmithKline
Finance and banking
- Goldman Sachs
- HSBC
- JP Morgan
- BNY Mellon
Telecommunication, energy, technology
- Virgin Media
- Vodafone
- IBM
SMEs, start-ups, creative agencies, marketing and PR
- AKQA
- Wild Cosmetics
- Rocket Internet
- Wheely
You can also do voluntary or charity work for your placements, if you want to give something back. Previous students have worked for hospitals and charities.
Earn and learn
Get paid while gaining experience.
Most placements pay a salary, although we can't guarantee you will get one. In 2024/25, our average salaries for students on placement in the UK were:
- BSc Management: £25,682. The highest salary was £50,000. This is based on data provided by 74 students who went on placement in the UK
- BSc Management with Marketing: £23,407. The highest salary was £30,000. This is based on data provided by 61 students who went on placement in the UK
- BSc Accounting and Finance: £26,747. The highest salary was £50,000. This is based on data provided by 77 students who went on placement in the UK
- BSc Business (previous version of the course featured two six-month placements):
- £22,588 for the first placement. This is based on data provided by 144 students who went on their first placement in the UK.
- £23,023 for the second placement. This is based on data provided by 134 students who went on their second placement in the UK.
- the highest salary was £70,000
If you're an international student you will be able to do a paid placement if you have a Student visa.
Work placement key figures
Based on the 2025/26 academic year. Source: internal data
73% of School of Management undergraduate students took a work placement.
Over 450 companies employed School of Management students on a placement.
Over 1,500 placement roles were advertised on our internal jobs board, MyPlacement.
‘I did my placement at Lloyd's Banking Group at their London offices. The experience was amazing. The staff were always supportive from my first day until my last day.’
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