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Placement year requirement

I am due to undertake a placement year after my BEng degree and the appeal was that, in my mind, I could do anything I wanted after the placement, get a grad scheme, masters or gap year. Is this true? or am I required to do a masters after it?

Reply 1

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Original post by RobElliot

Once you've completed your degree you can do whatever you want after it.

Reply 2

username6157322

You can do whatever you want with exceptions. Nothing guarantees you a job these days because the job market is bad. There is a surplus of graduates but not enough places for everyone. It is good that you are undertaking a placement because you will end up getting valuable work experience which employers are really looking for. Also, it is possible to be offered a place on a grad scheme after a placement. I know some people that did an internship or a placement and then ended up getting a grad scheme from the same company so it happens.

A masters degree is not required and a waste of money in my opinion. The main problem with universities is that they shove you with a lot of random crap that you're probably never gonna use and forget about afterwards and they also don't provide you with skills that employers are looking for at a satisfactory level. You know, you can be the smartest and good at exams, but have never really worked in a team, or never done anything in spare time. So if you finish BEng with a placement year then you should be okay applying for grad positions. A masters is not needed.