Information Technology MSc

Overview

The placement provides an excellent opportunity for you to gain first-hand industry experience. Experience gained on the placement is invaluable in helping you to make informed decisions about your future career path, as well as enhancing your employment prospects upon graduation. A dedicated Placements Office helps you to obtain placements and you will receive support throughout the placement experience. Interview techniques and advice are also provided to help you successfully gain a placement. A number of companies habitually accept students from this course for the placement year.

Placements have taken place in a range of large companies, both in the UK and abroad. Companies that have taken our design placement students include Jaguar Cars Ltd, Xerox, Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd, Dyson Appliances Ltd and The Gillette Company.Companies that have taken our Computing students include IBM, Barclays Bank, Lockheed Martin, Sun Microsystems, United Advertising, Hewlett-Packard and British Aerospace.

BU is proud to announce that thirteen students will be joining the Intel team as placement students in 2012, a higher number of students hired than any other UK University. You can read more in our news section.