Apply for a Scholarship
Applications for 2021/22 are now open. Please submit your initial application/s by 10pm Wednesday 17th November 2021.
To see the companies offering new scholarships, complete the following questions and click to search.
Note – there may be some changes to this list over the next couple of weeks. Click here to apply for a scholarship.
*MEng placements (less than 12 months) are only applicable to students at Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Imperial, Newcastle and York. Please select ‘no’ if you are at a different university.
Companies relevant to you are listed in table below. You can further refine your results using the Type of Business and Geographical Area filters.
| Company | Placement location | Type of Placements Offered | Restrictions/Notes |
| Allegro MicroSystems Europe Ltd | Edinburgh |
Summer placements; |
* (1) No 12-month placements; (2) No first year students |
| AWE | Aldermaston or Burghfield, Berkshire |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement for 2022/23; (2) Open only to British citizens/no dual nationals; (3) Candidates required to undergo security clearance; (4) No first year students |
| Beko Research & Development Centre | Cambridge |
Summer placements only |
* Students must be in the penultimate year of an MEng degree (not BEng) |
| Cadence Design Systems Ltd | Bracknell or Cambridge |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement for 2022/23; (2) No first year students |
| Caterpillar | Peterborough |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement for 2022/23; (2) No first year students |
| Chess Dynamics | Plymouth or Horsham |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement; (2) Must have a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in UK; (3) Candidates required to undergo security clearance |
| Collins Aerospace | Solihull |
Summer placements only |
* Candidates required to undergo security clearance |
| CSA Catapult | Newport, Wales |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement for 2022/23; (2) Candidates should specify which job/s they are interested in; (3) No first year students |
| EDA Solutions | Fareham, Hampshire |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement for 2022/23; (2) No first year students |
| Embecosm | Southampton, Hampshire |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement; (2) Must be studying software/computing and have demonstrable interest in compilers or operating systems; (3) Must hold a current passport; (4) No first year students |
| EnSilica ~New This Year~ | Abingdon or Wokingham |
Summer placements; 12-month placements |
* (1) Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree; (2) Requires interest in semiconductor design; (3) No MEng placements |
| Graphcore | Bristol |
Summer placements; 12-month placements; 3rd-year MEng placements |
* No final-year MEng placements |
| IDEX Biometrics | Farnborough |
Summer placements; |
* (1) Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree; (2) No 12-month placements |
| Infineon Technologies UK Ltd | Bristol |
Any placements |
* Must include one longer placement |
| ITDev | Southampton |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement for 2022/23; (2) Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree; (3) Placement is software/embedded systems engineering focused |
| Jaltek | Luton, Bedfordshire |
Any placements |
* Candidates required to undergo security clearance |
| JonJuTech | Didcot, Oxfordshire |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement for 2022/23; (2) No first year students |
| Leonardo (Edinburgh) | Edinburgh |
Summer placements only |
* (1) Must have a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in UK; (2) Candidates required to undergo security clearance; (3) MEng students only (not BEng) |
| Nordson | Southampton, Colchester or Aylesbury |
Summer placements only |
* No first year students |
| onsemi | Bracknell, Berkshire |
Any placements |
|
| Picocom ~New This Year~ | Bristol |
Summer placements only |
* No first year students |
| Plextek | Great Chesterford, near Cambridge |
Summer placements; |
* (1) Must have a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in UK; (2) Candidates required to undergo security clearance; (3) One hardware and one embedded software focused scholarship; (4) No 12-month placements; (5) MEng students only (not BEng): (6) No first year students |
| Qualcomm Technologies | Cambridge |
Summer placements only |
|
| R-P-R | Lymington, Hampshire |
Any placements |
* Requires 12-month placement |
| Renesas Electronics Europe Ltd | Bourne End, Buckinghamshire |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement for 2022/23; (2) Candidates must specify which job/s they are interested in; (3) No first year students |
| Sensata Technologies | Swindon |
Any placements |
* Requires interest in micro-electronics or Micro-electromechanical systems |
| Siemens Digital Industries Software | Cambridge or Bristol |
Any placements |
|
| Spirit Semiconductor ~New This Year~ | Reading or Leeds |
Summer placements only |
* (1) Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree |
| STFC | Harwell, Oxfordshire |
MEng placements; 12-month placements |
* (1) MEng students only (No BEng students) (2) No summer only placements; (3) No first year students |
| STMicroelectronics | Edinburgh |
Summer placements; |
* (1) No 12-month placements; (2) No first year students |
| Synopsys | Plymouth, Devon |
Any placements |
* Students in at least second year preferred |
| Vision4CE | Wokingham, Berkshire |
Any placements |
* (1) Must have a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in UK; (2) Candidates required to undergo security clearance; (3) Requires interest in embedded software/systems, analogue and digital circuit design, development and testing. |
| Waters | Wilmslow |
Summer placements only |
* No first year students |
Notes:
- 12-month placements only apply to students whose degrees include a year training in industry or have agreed with their university to do a 12-month placement in addition to their degree.
- MEng placements (4–8 months) are only applicable to students at Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Imperial, Newcastle and York.