Placements, internships and employment opportunities

City St George's, University of London has been delivering placements in the IT industry for over 20 years. We have developed an excellent reputation with a very wide range of employers both large and small in the public and private sector.

Typical role titles have included; software developer, mobile app developer, junior business analyst, software tester, junior web developer, games programmer, junior consultant.

Students undertake relevant professional industry work in a supportive learning environment.

Our unique location in London enables us to work closely with companies in the fastest growing technology cluster in Europe – TechCity. Below are a small selection of the companies where our students have been placed:

• IBM
• Barclays
• PlayStation
• Disney
• Accenture
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Thomson Reuters
• Microsoft.

Additional industry experience schemes

The Department of Computer Science also offers two unique work-based learning initiatives.

Engineering students undertake both year-long placements and summer internships in a range of companies across the engineering sector. Students learn how to confidently apply skills and methods learnt during their studies.

Placements are paid and are a fantastic way to gain professional experience in a relevant field as part of your degree. Selecting a placement year could also count towards the experience requirement for a professional engineering qualification.

Our Biomedical and Healthcare engineers have worked as; trainee clinical technologist, ventilator technicians and laboratory interns. Many students work in roles for the NHS and the private sector.

Civil and Infrastructure engineering placement students have worked across a range of sectors and functions such as Rail, Airports, Tunnelling, Geo-Environmental and Structural Engineering.

Both Mechanical Design and Aerospace engineering students have worked in a range of mechanical engineering, aeronautical and automotive organisations.

In addition to various professional skills, Electrical and Electronic Engineering placement students have gained a variety of technical skills including; workshop safety, electronic circuits, firmware writing, programming, design, testing, electronic construction, laboratory experimentation and recording and presenting information.

Our students work in a variety of companies including multinational engineering firms, consultancies, start-up ventures, hospitals and construction firms. Recent host companies have included:

• Airbus
• Arup
• Atkins,
• Balfour Beatty
• British Airways
• Byrne Looby
• Cundall
• Department for Transport
• EDF Energy
• E.ON
• Kier Group
• Nissan
• NHS
• Skanska
• Transport for London

Whilst on placement students gain many technical and transferable skills that they take into their final year of their degree and help them succeed in graduate roles. These transferable skills include planning and effective time management, leadership and team work, interpersonal and communication skills.

As a mathematics student you have two options for securing some employment experience as part of your degree: one year industrial placement or a summer internship.

One year placement are taken after you have successfully completed your second year of study and are 9-12 month in duration. Upon completion you then return to finish your studies. Summer internships are taken in the summer between the 2nd and 3rd year and typically last between 4-12 weeks.

Whilst out on a placement/internship our students have the chance to develop many of their own numerical and transferable skills as well as learn new ones they can take with them into a future graduate role.

These can include analytical skills, acute attention to detail, the ability to construct logical arguments and present complex solutions, problem-solving, investigative skills, working successfully as part of a team, financial forecasting, data analysis and improved Excel skills.

Mathematics students work in a wide-variety of roles across the full spectrum of industries: finance and banking, IT, pharmaceutical, retail, local government, automotive and charities. Below are just some of the companies that previous placement and internship students have worked in:

• Bloomberg
• Microsoft
• EY
• Barclays
• GE Capital
• AXA
• JP Morgan
• Deloitte
• Disney
• IBM.

Having the chance to put their mathematics skills into practice in an industry setting is invaluable and many of our students are offered graduate roles – allowing them to focus exclusively on their final year of study upon return to City St George's, University of London. Typical roles titles have included; Data Analyst, Pricing Analyst, Trainee Accountant, Finance Assistant, Project Manager and Banking Consultant.