Get support from your dedicated Placements and Internships Team in the Management School.
Placements give you the chance to gain work experience and become more employable.
Our degrees with a placement year take four years and you complete your placement in your third year.
A placement is a period of professional-level work experience that is normally 10 to 12 months long and forms part of your overall degree.
What students get from their placements:
There's no experience like industry experience. Impress future employers with your CV.
Improving your skills and knowledge on placement could help you earn a higher degree grade.
Try working in an industry before you decide if it's right for you.
£21,000 was the average placement salary in 2021/22.
The pay you receive varies and depends on the organisation and role you are employed in.
If you take a placement we recommend to you, you'll earn a salary for your placement. We only promote paid placements to our students.
You pay 20% of your annual tuition fee for the year you are on placement.
You remain a student throughout the year and have access to all the resources and support of the university. You are entitled to apply for student loans as in any other year and will also continue to receive any bursary you have been awarded.
Caitlin spent her placement year at Adobe.
“I worked in the marketing sector of Adobe on the Creative Cloud side of the business.
You get to learn things that you wouldn’t have learned in your course, things that you can’t learn in a classroom.”
Along with Adobe, our students have completed placements at organisations such as L’Oreal, IBM, Body Shop, The Walt Disney Company, Deloitte, Unilever, Intel, Renault, Tesco, Rolls Royce, Ernst & Young, and Lloyds Banking Group.
Your options for where you can do your placement include:
You are also encouraged to create your own opportunity with support from our team. Past students have created placement opportunities for themselves in:
Yes, if you do the appropriate research. You will be responsible for finding out whether you have a right to work in any country where you are considering completing a placement. You need to check if you are eligible for a Visa. For more information, visit Prospect's page about working abroad.
It would be your responsibility as a student to secure a placement. We support you by:
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We support you through every year of your degree.
Lancaster gives you so much support when you’re applying for a placement.
Yes. You can switch in your first term at university. We offer a ‘Transfer to Placement’ presentation during the first term which gives information about how to do this.
If you decide not to take a placement or you don't find a placement you are satisfied with, then you will be transferred to the standard variant of your degree. For example, if you enrol in BSc Accounting and Finance (Industry) and you later decide not to take a placement, you will be transferred by default to BSc Accounting and Finance.
Contact the Lancaster University Management School Placements and Internships Team at lumsplacements@lancaster.ac.uk
Current student? Visit Careers Connect where you can book events about LUMS placements and appointments with careers advisors.
