Some of our courses can be taken with a year spent gaining valuable experience with a placement year.
A placement year is a great way to gain some professional experience and could make your CV stand out from the crowd. Benefits include:
You'll be supported by our Placements Team during before, during and after your placement.
Our support includes:
Our students have taken placements across a number of sectors. Examples include:
All our undergraduate courses with languages include a Year Abroad. You'll be able to spend time in Europe, or beyond.
All our undergraduate courses with languages include a Year Abroad:
Depending on the course you choose, you'll be able to choose from a work placement, exchange or working as an English Language Assistant.
Find our where our graduates go.
Graduate destination information for Politics students who graduated in the summer 2018. (1)
Graduate destination information for Modern Languages students who graduated in the summer 2018. (2)
Our students share their study experience and time spent on placement and year abroad.
What might a day in the life of a languages student look like? French and German student James tells us what it's like to be a Modern Languages student at Bath (3).
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1 Graduate destinations information for the courses: BA Language and Politics (now offered as International Politics and Modern Languages BA), BSc Politics and International Relations and BSc Politics with Economics. Data only includes destinations for first degree UK and Other EU domiciled students. View data source.
2 Graduate destinations information for the courses: BA Modern Languages and European Studies (now offered as BA Modern Languages). Data only includes destinations for first degree UK and Other EU domiciled students. View data source.
3 Information correct at time of production. Views and opinions expressed by the participants in these films are their own and not necessarily those of the University of Bath.
