We’re giving you a unique opportunity to gain professional work experience within an external business or organisation of your choice, as part of a two-year Masters degree at Essex.
You can choose from four of our carefully selected Masters with Professional Placements courses listed below. Each course is an opportunity to put taught skills into practice and develop a network of industry professionals. Your placement is a sought-after contribution to your employability, giving you the tools employers look for in skilled graduates.
If you're interested in a degree with real-world practical value and you’d like to apply your academic knowledge to a working environment, then this is the course for you.
Professional placements will give you a fresh perspective of the world and your subject.
We’re offering two year postgraduate courses with an integrated professional work placement module in the second year. These courses are available to UK, EU and international students. The placement module will take place after the taught portion of your programme in year one and assessed as part of the course.
The courses are marked on the results of your written examinations, together with continual assessments of your practical work and coursework.
We'll assign you to an Academic Supervisor within your chosen department and a Placement Supervisor. Both of your supervisors will have regular contact with you throughout the work placement to make sure you get the most development from it.
Visit our course pages to learn what the fees for the professional placement are, as this may vary from course to course. Fees will also increase for each academic year of study.
We will offer you support in finding and applying for a work placement, but you will be responsible for securing one. You should be aware that masters with placement courses are rare at universities in the UK so it can be hard to find a suitable placement.
We recommend that you look at what types of placements are available from employers before you accept a place on our course.
If you’re unable to secure a placement or change your mind about doing one, you can start your dissertation earlier and complete your Masters in your first year.
International students
If you an international student, you will also need to consider your Tier 4 visa and any restrictions you may have which would stop you undertaking full time work. Brexit and other external political conditions may also make it harder for international students to secure a placement.
The structure of the course will include the taught modules of your chosen MA in the first year, followed by the work placement module in the second. The dissertation module will be at the end of year two.
If you change your mind and decide not to do your placement in the second year, you can start your dissertation early and complete the Masters in the first year.
YEAR ONETaught modules - 120 credits |
YEAR TWOPlacement module - 120 credits Dissertation - 50 credits |