Degrees with Employment Experience
A Degree with Employment Experience offers you the opportunity to further develop your knowledge, skills and understanding within an employment context by undertaking a one year work placement as part of your degree programme.
How does this work?
For most of our degrees, you can opt to apply for a year's employment placement, usually before the final year of your course. You work for a year, full time with an external organisation in an area relevant to your degree. (It may sometimes be possible to work with two different organisations for six months each.) You are employed (and paid) by the external organisation, but you remain registered for your degree at the University, with access to University services, and you will have continued contact with your academic tutors. Assessment for the year consists of a journal you keep during the year, and a short critical piece of writing about one aspect of your work, the assessment does not affect your final degree mark, but you have to pass the assessment for the year in employment to be formally added to your degree qualification.
At the end of the year you return to the final year of your academic studies. When you graduate the year's employment experience is recognized in the official title of your degree, e.g. a Physics degree would become 'Physics with Employment Experience'.
You do not apply for a Degree with Employment Experience when you make your degree application. It is an option you can explore after you start your degree.