Placements
A year-long industry placement during your degree provides a huge career advantage. You’ll gain real-world experience, allowing you to apply your knowledge to live projects and problem solving. Employers prefer graduates with practical industry experience, making you stand out in job applications. You’ll build a strong professional network, gaining mentors, industry contacts and potential job offers before graduation.
Students have undertaken amazing year-long paid placements at companies including Tayntons, Renishaw, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and TIPD Legal.
Trips
In your final year, you’ll have the chance to participate in self-funded residential trips abroad, designed to enrich your study experience while being budget friendly.
Recent trips have included a field trip to the South of France, planned with student budgets in mind, yet packed with incredible learning opportunities. Over four days and three nights in Nice, plus a day trip to Monaco, students explored the world of international business.
The itinerary included a visit to IPAG Business School, a final-year research bootcamp, and industry visits to Grasse Perfumery and Allianz Riviera stadium. Students also explored Monte Carlo’s business and luxury sectors, with some even managing to talk their way into an exclusive VIP tour of the McLaren F1 Team’s pits – proof that confidence and networking go a long way in business!
These trips are more than just travel – they’re immersive learning experiences that expose you to global business environments, as well as creating lasting memories.
Experiences
Throughout this course, you will take part in a variety of interactive and engaging learning experiences. These include collaborating with fellow students in small group discussions to generate ideas, solutions, and strategies using problem-based learning. You will complete group projects, field trips, debates, and elevator pitches.
You’ll develop presentation skills through digital media and gain real-world insights via business simulations and live client consultation briefs. Industry guest speakers will share expertise and networking opportunities.
Your specialised business law modules will be taught alongside law students. You will have opportunities to participate in activities such as mock employment tribunals, where you role-play live cases to enhance their understanding of legal processes. You may also decide to join UoG’s Mooting & Law society.