One-year Placements
One-year placements are taken after completing the second year of study. Students do about a year of work within the 15 months (July to September in the following year) between their second and final years at university. Students return to City to finish their degree after the placement.
All City undergraduates get the chance to take a placement as part of their course. Placements provide opportunities for students to acquire technical and business knowledge. On placement students demonstrate competence in the workplace, by performing responsible work that will extend their knowledge in a relevant way.
Some students are placed in large IT departments or project teams, while others work in small organisations alongside user staff. Programming and user support are common activities, but systems investigation, analysis and design, documentation, testing, use of packages, data collection and help desk work are all appropriate too.