Supporting your future

At  Essex, we pride ourselves on our first-class business links. We are even the number 1 university in the UK for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), the flagship Innovate UK programme. The KTP scheme helps businesses in the UK to innovate and grow by working directly with University academics and graduates. 

We have business links in a variety of different departments across the organisation and work directly with businesses such as:

• BT
• Mondaq
• Mersea Homes
• Profusion Media
• Provide
• Railscape
• Sea-kit
• And many more - We have 40 KTPs across eight academic departments

As an Essex student, you have access to CareerHub, where you can search for jobs, placements, internships and other opportunities; book on to events, and arrange a 1:1 appointment with our expert advisers.

After you graduate, you’ll still have access to all of this as part of your careers support for life, so whatever your career circumstances, there’s support available for you.

We highly value our alumni at Essex, up to 33% fee reduction scholarships are available to graduates looking to stay on with us or return for postgraduate study through our fee discount scheme. You are eligible even if you study abroad here or have a spouse / partner studying here as a full-time international student. This token can be spent on one year of postgraduate study at either Masters or PhD level!