Take advantage of the exciting work experience options available at Bath Spa University and enhance your career prospects.

You'll see that job listings frequently ask for relevant work experience as well as a degree, but if you need the degree to get the work experience, and can't get the work experience without the degree, how are you expected to win? Well, BSU have the answer with our Bath Spa Works programmes.

Through Bath Spa Works, you can enhance your CV and improve your career prospects with short, medium, or long-term work experience options like Projects, Internships and the Professional Placement Year.

Bath Spa Works: Projects offer students from any discipline the opportunity to get paid to work collaboratively on real life social, environmental or sustainable projects. Projects become available throughout the year and last for a number of weeks.

As well as helping local and regional non-for-profit and purpose-led organisations, these projects will help you develop your employability skills, broaden your work experience, and build your contacts and network.

View Bath Spa Works: Projects on MyCareer.

Bath Spa Works: Internships are paid opportunities with local businesses that are available exclusively to BSU students. They take place throughout the year (including the summer) and vary in length, but will typically be for at least three months. These roles can be worked remotely, in-person or a mix of both.

If you’re looking to do something that adds extra value to your degree, helps you develop key skills, provides a meaningful impact on the company you’re working for and earns you some money, then visit MyCareer to see all of the exciting opportunities are available.

The Professional Placement Year (PPY) is available to any undergraduate on any course, takes place between your second and third year, and provides substantial dedicated support to help you get substantial and long-term work experience that will include at least 900 working hours over a minimum of 30 weeks.

The support offered includes a bursary of up to £1,500 for every PPY student to use toward placement costs like commuting, food, or work outfits.

You can learn more about PPYs on MyCareer.

The Placements Team behind Bath Spa Works also support the several module options that are available as part of our degree courses. Two of the most popular options to help you gain meaningful work experience are these two undergraduate open modules:

  • Work Placement open module: Available as a second year module, this option helps you explore job and industry options, preparing you to secure a placement of 70 to 120 working hours.
  • Summer Placement open module: Available as a final year module but taking place between the summer of your penultimate and final year, this module choice supports you into securing a 180-hour placement over a minimum of six weeks, in turn freeing up a lot of extra time in your final year for large dissertation or portfolio projects.

There's a vast range of placements that are suitable for these modules on MyCareer.

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If you're curious about any of these options and would like to know more, please ask a question on MyCareer.