Can you provide placements?
Placement year
“I would highly recommend anyone to take a placement year, it is not only a fantastic experience, it differentiates you from all the other graduates.”
— Tanya Bhattacharyya
Placement at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Our students have taken placements at:
- Bank of England
- HSBC Investment Bank
- Morgan Stanley
- Goldman Sachs
- JP Morgan
- Nomura
- UBS
All our economics undergraduate students have the opportunity to undertake a four-year degree with a one-year paid placement during the third year.
Students will receive support from the Faculty Team throughout their placement.
Economics placement year
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Type of placement
There are placements in a wide range of organisations in the private and public sectors, including:
- Investment and retail banking
- Accountancy, auditing
- Asset management
- Financial research, forecasting
- Financial planning and control
- Sales, marketing, purchasing and logistics
- Political lobbying or working with MPs or MEPs
- International development work
All placement jobs are at a junior professional level. Ideally, you will be given a project or a piece of work that will be your individual responsibility. The job will provide you with a challenge and allow you to use existing skills and develop new ones. Placements may involve an element of routine work as well.
Placement support
Our dedicated Placements Team will support and guide you through the recruitment process to gain your placement. View an overview of the placement support process.
Further information
View the Study site and fee pages, or download our undergraduate programme brochure for further information about placements.
If you have any quiries then please email: hss-placements@bath.ac.uk
