{"id":1551,"date":"2026-01-22T14:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:33:21","slug":"apply-for-the-undergraduate-of-the-year-awards-2026-by-26-jan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/01\/22\/apply-for-the-undergraduate-of-the-year-awards-2026-by-26-jan\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply for the Undergraduate of the Year Awards 2026 by 26 Jan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apply.undergraduateoftheyear.com\/Home\/Guest\">The\u202ftargetjobs\u202fUndergraduate of the Year Awards 2026<\/a> is your chance to shine, stand out, and be noticed by the UK\u2019s top graduate employers.<\/p>\n<p>Each award category is partnered with a leading employer, offering an incredible prize, from a place on their graduate programme to summer internships, mentoring, and prize money.\u202f This\u202fisn\u2019t\u202fjust another competition;\u202fit\u2019s\u202fyour opportunity to\u202fshowcase\u202fyour talent, build connections, and gain real-world experience before you graduate.<\/p>\n<p>There are 16 awards available in different categories including AI Innovator of the Year, Multilingual Undergraduate of the Year, Engineering Undergraduate of the Year, Future Lawyer of the Year and Black Heritage Undergraduate of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, one of our students won the Undergraduate of the Year Award Celebrating Neurodiverse Talent! <a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/kent-stars\/190\/kent-stars-rolls-royce-researcher-rachel\">In winning the award, Rachel also won an internship at Rolls-Royce!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Applications for the Undergraduate of the Year Awards 2026 close at 9:00 on Monday 26 January so get your application in soon!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apply.undergraduateoftheyear.com\/Home\/Guest\">\u202fApply online now<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u202ftargetjobs\u202fUndergraduate of the Year Awards 2026 is your chance to shine, stand out, and be noticed by the UK\u2019s top graduate employers. Each award category &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/01\/22\/apply-for-the-undergraduate-of-the-year-awards-2026-by-26-jan\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40853,"featured_media":1553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,223276],"tags":[178181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}