Careers and placements
Placement Year
A Placement Year is an exciting opportunity to gain workplace experience as part of your course.
The Placement Year team are here to answer any questions and support you with your Placement Year.
Get in touch by emailing placementyear@yorksj.ac.uk.
What is a Placement Year?
A Placement Year is also know as a Sandwich Year or Year in Industry.
You can do a Placement Year as part of your course at York St John. It is an exciting opportunity for you to apply the skills you have learned on your course and to gain a significant amount of work experience. This will be recognised in the title of your degree at the end of your studies.
On your Placement Year you will develop your employability skills while finding out about an area of work that interests you. You will usually be paid in the process.
The placement takes place at the end of your second year, for a minimum of 9, but usually 12 months. You will get an 85% fee reduction to your annual tuition fees during your year on placement.
You will then return to York St John to spend your fourth year completing your course, with the opportunity to support second year students sourcing their own placement.
Neev Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Undertaking a placement year was the best decision I've done! I learnt valuable skills that have helped my personal and professional life.
Joseph Townends Accountants
I wanted to do a placement because I thought it would be a good experience that gave me an insight into the industry. My placement year has helped me in looking for graduate jobs as it has narrowed down the options I am interested in and the experience also looks good on my CV.
Ben York St John University
I did placement for social and technical skill improvement. The experience was stressful but valuable for my confidence. The placement year will enable me to be more confident in the work I do.