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Professional Experience

Many of our Masters courses over a Professional Experience module which includes a placement option or work experience.

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Why choose a Masters with Professional Experience?

Professional Experience modules offer a fantastic opportunity to gain industry exposure, and benefit from professional mentoring and feedback, which will help you to secure the graduate role you want.

You'll be able to study an extended two-year course. This will include, in Year 2, two Professional Experience modules.

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Hear from current students

Hear from Padra, who studied our MSc Brand Management course at our Cambridge campus as he takes us on a tour around the Faculty of Business and Law where he’s doing his professional experience.

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Top things to know about Professional Experience

  • You can choose from a professional project, work experience, or work placement.
  • The modules are UKVI compliant and provide certainty around the duration of your course, accommodation needs, and career planning.
  • Each module lasts for 12 weeks.

Boost your employability

Professional Project

This module is offered on-campus, in collaboration with industry partners. You’ll learn in a variety of settings, working on an industry project with your peers.

Work experience

Based on-campus, you’ll have an opportunity to secure paid work experience in one or more of the business units at the University.

Work placement

Normally off-campus, spend time working in an industry and gaining valuable industry experience – the work placement is paid.

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