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Undergraduate work placement

For undergraduates looking for a year placement as part of their course

Put your learning into practice

Duration

11 months

These are right for you if

you're looking for a year placement

Start date

Summer 2026

Location

Across the UK

If your undergraduate degree includes an industry placement, PwC is a great place to do it. Few organisations deal with such a broad range of clients and sectors. Few organisations offer our scope and scale of professional services or bring together so many different skills and perspectives from across the globe. Few can give you such a unique perspective on the rapidly changing AI-enabled business world. 

Take one of our 11-month paid placements and you’ll have a real role, working alongside graduate trainees, experienced professionals and industry-leading experts. You’ll learn about our firm, gain exposure to a wide range of clients, work on a number of different projects, build valuable business skills, and gain priceless experience. It’s an exceptional opportunity and a powerful education. 

Our placements put you at the heart of the action. Contributing to a range of internal and client projects, you’ll be part of a highly skilled team. You'll do the same work, and benefit from the same training, as our first-year graduate recruits. 

Experiencing life inside one of the world's largest professional services organisations is a fantastic way to build your commercial awareness and interpersonal skills. It’s also a lot of fun. As you’d expect from a business of this scale, the work can be intense at times. But you’ll have incredible support at every stage and a competitive rewards package to recognise your hard work.

Our work placement will give you a comprehensive feel for the challenges of professional services and the chance to work with clients ranging from global corporations to governmental organisations, small enterprises and big brands. 

Nothing can beat on-the-job experience for personal development. At PwC, you’ll learn new things every day, from your colleagues and our clients. You’ll boost your ability to draw insight from complex information. You’ll grow in understanding and confidence. All these qualities can make a real difference to your last year at university, not to mention your long-term future.

You’ll also benefit from extensive training and excellent learning and development opportunities. In addition to our core training modules, you’ll be encouraged to explore our internal training platform to develop the skills you’d like to build.

Our 11-month paid work placements are open to students, from all disciplines, who need to complete a placement as part of their undergraduate degree. You must have a good academic record and be able to show how you've used your initiative and team-working skills. 

These placements are for students in their second year on a four-year degree expecting to do a work placement in the third year.  Our placements are popular, therefore we encourage interested students to apply early. Our 11-month work placements start in September.

This year we have roles in Management Consulting 

Management Consulting (as a part of Advisory and Consulting) 

In Management Consulting, we use our understanding of how business works and how technology can create competitive advantage to help clients deliver profitable growth. That might mean helping businesses understand, and create better experiences for, their customers and employees. It might mean optimising financial management, driving operational efficiency, advising on workforce effectiveness or bringing together a range of interrelated projects to deliver broad strategic outcomes. 

Throughout, you’ll learn how to provide business leaders with the data and insight they need to make smarter decisions. And you’ll develop strategies and solutions that streamline processes, improve productivity and drive business performance. 

Our assessment and selection process

Apply online

The first thing you'll need to do is complete your online application carefully, following all the instructions.

Online assessment

A series of online assessments that measure your cognitive skills, behaviours, natural preferences and reasoning abilities.

Video interview

The next stage of our assessment process is an on-demand video interview. The questions will focus on how you typically approach your work, for example at school, university or any prior work experience you may have.

Assessment centre

The last stage of the work placement recruitment process is a virtual immersive assessment centre.

Graduate conversion assessment

During your undergraduate placement you'll be assessed through your performance and feedback received, if you demonstrate the skills we are looking for you could be offered a graduate job..

Learn more about our

assessment and selection process

Interested in an undergraduate work placement?