Placements and sponsorship
You can incorporate a placement year into any one of our undergraduate degrees.
A placement year allows you to gain valuable work experience in a role and industry or sector you are interested in, develop key skills and competencies sought by graduate recruiters, and build a network of useful contacts.
Most placements are salaried, and several students are offered permanent employment to return to after graduation. A placement year usually takes place after the first two years of study and on completion students will gain a Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS) or a Diploma in Industrial Studies (DIS).
Our Industrial Training Coordinator gathers and supplies information about placement opportunities and advises students on what to expect from the experience. The process is overseen by our Placement Administrator, who helps our students secure placements which best match their interests and ambitions.
Examples of recent placement employers include AECOM, Balfour Beatty, BAM, Bechtel, British Airways, Brunsfield, Costain, DHL Aviation, E C Harris, Etihad, Eurovia, Fluor, Galliford Try, Interserve, ISG, Jaguar Land Rover, Kier Group, Laing O’Rourke, LendLease, Morgan Sindall, Mott MacDonald, Network Rail, Sir Robert McAlpine, Skanska, Southern Water, Taylor Woodrow, Thameslink, Tony Gee, Vinci Construction, and Walter Lilly.
Sponsorship
The Loughborough Construction Consortium provides a core of sponsoring organisations that offer excellent placement and sponsorship opportunities to our students, supplemented by extensive collaborating organisations across the wider built environment sector.
Sponsorship will provide you with a bursary during your study, summer placement work for those who want it and a paid twelve-month placement with your sponsor company. In many cases, students are offered employment with their sponsor company after graduating and many are now in senior positions within these companies.
I am now employed by Morgan Sindall Construction, who sponsored me throughout my degree, working as a Site Manager. I have recently completed a three-storey modular teaching block, housing several science labs and teaching areas.