Get support from your dedicated Placements and Internships Team in the Management School.
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.
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.”
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.
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:
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A careers coach talking with a student
The Management School’s Placements Team went above and beyond to share their knowledge and experience to really help me find my passion and career path.
Selected entry year
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
Visit Careers Connect where you can book events about LUMS placements and appointments with careers advisors.
