{"id":359,"date":"2018-11-18T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/?p=359"},"modified":"2019-01-08T16:41:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T16:41:22","slug":"year-in-industry-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/year-in-industry-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Year in Industry Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS) at the University of Kent offers a range of Year in Industry programmes, providing students with the opportunity to gain paid work experience as part of their degree.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Which degrees include a Year in Industry?<\/h2>\n<p>The School offers the following Year in Industry degrees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/6\/actuarial-science-with-a-year-in-industry\">BSc Actuarial Science with a Year in Industry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/863\/financial-mathematics-with-year-industry\">BSc Financial Mathematics with a Year in Industry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/890\/mathematics-with-a-year-in-industry\">BSc Mathematics with a Year in Industry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/891\/mathematics-and-statistics-with-a-year-in-industry\">BSc Mathematics and Statistics with a Year in Industry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/1218\/applied-actuarial-science-with-industrial-placement\">MSc Applied Actuarial Science with an Industrial Placement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/1219\/mathematics-and-its-applications-with-industrial-placement\">MSc Mathematics and Its Applications with an Industrial Placement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/1220\/statistics-with-industrial-placement\">MSc Statistics with an Industrial Placement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/1221\/statistics-with-finance-and-industrial-placement\">MSc Statistics with Finance with an Industrial Placement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Why should I study a Year in Industry degree?<\/h2>\n<p>A Year in Industry degree gives you the opportunity to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strengthen your CV and stand out from the crowd in the graduate job market<\/li>\n<li>Put into practice the skills and techniques you&#8217;ve learnt as part of your degree<\/li>\n<li>Try out a job role in your chosen career \/ sector of interest<\/li>\n<li>Gain valuable industry experience and knowledge<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-weight: bold\">Earn a salary!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What support is available to help me secure a placement?<\/h2>\n<p>Throughout Stages 1 and 2, you attend specialist programme of workshops and events designed to ensure you have the best possible opportunity of securing a placement, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regular timetabled employability workshops<\/li>\n<li>1:1 meetings with the Placements Team<\/li>\n<li>Annual SMSAS Placements Fair<\/li>\n<li>SMSAS Placements Campus Day \/ Poster Fair (<em>students who are on placement return to campus for a day to present their posters and share their placement experiences)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>SMSAS Placement Boot Camp<\/li>\n<li>Annual Kent Employability Fair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our in-house Placements Team will support you throughout the process, providing advice and guidance on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to prepare your CV and build experience and skills at university<\/li>\n<li>Where to find placement opportunities<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">What to expect in the placement application and recruitment process<\/span><\/li>\n<li>How to complete application forms<\/li>\n<li>Interview and assessment centre techniques<\/li>\n<li>And much more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also receive informal mentorship from returning placement students.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Who can I work for?<\/h2>\n<p>Students work for a wide range of employers and in a huge variety of roles. Current and previous students have worked for companies such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aviva<\/li>\n<li>Deloitte<\/li>\n<li>Deutsch Bank<\/li>\n<li>Disney<\/li>\n<li>Goldman Sachs<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">HMRC<\/span><b><\/b><i><\/i><u><\/u><\/li>\n<li>IBM<\/li>\n<li>Intel<\/li>\n<li>JP Morgan<\/li>\n<li>Land Rover<\/li>\n<li>Lloyds Banking Group<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">LV=<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Microsoft<\/li>\n<li>Morgan Stanley<\/li>\n<li>NFU Mutual<\/li>\n<li>Office for National Statistics<\/li>\n<li>Provident<\/li>\n<li>Redmayne-Bentley<\/li>\n<li>Rolls-Royce<\/li>\n<li>Tata Steel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>More information<\/h3>\n<p>For more information about our Year in Industry degrees, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/contact-us\/\">contact our friendly Admissions Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/year-in-industry-degrees\/&amp;t=Year in Industry Degrees' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Year in Industry Degrees%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/year-in-industry-degrees\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/year-in-industry-degrees\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/year-in-industry-degrees\/&amp;title=Year in Industry Degrees' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/year-in-industry-degrees\/&amp;title=Year in Industry Degrees' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS) at the University of Kent offers a range of Year in Industry programmes, providing students with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/year-in-industry-degrees\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47358,"featured_media":374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[789,183029,9871,37392],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasstudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}