Social and policy sciences undergraduate virtual experience
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Explore our placements
Some of our courses can be taken with a year spent gaining valuable experience with a placement year.
Pump up your CV
A placement year is a great way to gain some professional experience and could make your CV stand out from the crowd. Benefits include:
- finding out more about the world of work
- explore your career direction
- make professional contacts
Support at every step
You'll be supported by our Placements Team during before, during and after your placement.
Our support includes:
- Placement options brainstorming in Year 1
- CV and interview help in Year 2
- Regular contact with you on placement in Year 3
- Final year debrief
Placement destinations
Our students have taken placements across a number of sectors. Examples include:
- The Big Issue
- Department for Work & Pensions
- Dyson
- IBM
- National Crime Agency
- Office for National Statistics
- The Walt Disney Company
- Welsh Government
Placement experience
Hear from our dedicated Placements Officer, Victoria Maskell, about taking a placement during your studies at Bath ^3.
Our graduate destinations
Find our where our graduates go.
- Work, combined and further study - 64%
- Further study only - 0%
- Other (including travelling) - 0%
- Unemployed - 7%
- Unknown - 29%
Social Work
Graduate destination information for Social Work students who graduated in the summer 2017. ^1
- Work, combined and further study - 50%
- Further study only - 17%
- Other (including travelling) - 0%
- Unemployed - 0%
- Unknown - 33%
Sociology, Social Policy and Social Sciences
Graduate destination information for Sociology, Social Policy and Social Sciences students who graduated in the summer 2017. ^2
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1 Graduate destinations information for the BSc Social Work and Applied Social Studies course. Data only includes destinations for first degree UK and Other EU domiciled students. View data source.
2 Graduate destinations information for the courses: BSc Social Policy, BSc Social Sciences, BSc Sociology and Social Policy and BSc Sociology. 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.