Placements and work experience
You can take a year in industry after your second year to gain industrial experience.
Work placements cover a wide range of work experience types and destinations, both laboratory and non-laboratory. You will have both an academic and placement site supervisor. Your placement will allow you to improve personal and transferable skills, make new contacts and will enhance your employability.
Whilst we do not guarantee you a placement, you will be given extensive support to secure one. Recent placements have included:
- GSK
- The Binding Site
- Micropathology
- The Body Shop.
Many of our BSc students also choose to undertake work placements during vacations. We actively promote these placements and will support you with applications and interview skills.
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Your career
Graduates on our courses have gone on to work for employers including:
- AstraZeneca
- NHS
- Civil Service
- KPMG
- Johnson and Johnson
- Tesla
- ALS: Sarstedt Ltd
- Novartis
- Universities and Schools
They have pursued roles such as:
- Graduate-entry medicine students
- NHS scientists
- Biomedical research and development scientists
- Scientific publishing professionals
- Laboratory technicians
- Teachers
- Business, marketing and accountancy professionals
- Postgraduate student or researcher
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Helping you find the right career
Throughout your time in the School of Life Sciences your personal tutor, and careers and placements staff will work in conjunction with Student Opportunity to support you to find the right career. Through our unique taught tutorial system, you put into practice a range of scientific and transferable skills. As a Life Sciences student you will develop the hands-on laboratory, problem solving and research skills desired by employers. Our graduates are highly employable and go on to a range of scientific and non-scientific careers.
Our unique careers and placements service is tailored to your academic subject area. Our team offer a range of activities within the School to help you to consider your career once you graduate. Opportunities include:
- One-to-one careers advice appointments within the School
- Termly networking events featuring presentations from Life Sciences alumni and employers about a range of careers
- The option to undertake a full year industrial placement or study abroad year as part of your degree
- A wide range of summer work placement opportunities in industry and the School
- Careers talks throughout the degrees to ensure that you are thinking about your next steps throughout the programme
- Links with Warwick alumni to present to you the potential pathways of your degree
- We run a successful Medical School Application Support Programme (MASP) to prepare those interested in applying for graduate entry medicine. Since the programme started 4 years ago we have achieved remarkable success with 83% of MASP students getting an interview for Medical School and 66% being offered a place.
Find out more about careers support at Warwick.