Placements and funding

Opportunities for high-flying students

For those students whose performance is outstanding, there are extended opportunities for acquiring new skills, research experience and work experience.

Internships

Students are paid to take work on current research projects, and given the opportunity to produce publications.

SUN Start programme

Each year Sun Microsystems recruits some of our best students for a one year long work placement at various Sun laboratories. This scheme is open to students who have completed their 3rd year of study.

IBM internships

As well as funding two Informatics scholarships, IBM selects a number of students for summer placements.

Prizes

The Schools has a Student Prize Scheme which aims to recognize and reward outstanding performance. Prizes are sponsored by the School, by professional organizations such as the British Computer Society, and by IT companies.

The following companies sponsor prizes:

Agilent Technologies
Barclays Capital
Citigroup
Google
Microsoft
Unilever
Xerox
Real Time Engineering

For more information please see:

Informatics Scholarships and Prizes

This article was published on Jun 29, 2010