Apply for a Scholarship
Applications for 2021/22 are now closed. Please email [email protected] to be notified when applications open for 2022/23.
To view a list of companies who offered scholarships in 2021, please complete the table below.
*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 |
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence | Guildford |
Summer placements only |
* (1) Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree; (2) Open only to British citizens/no dual nationals; (3) Candidates required to undergo security clearance; |
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 |
Codasip | Cambridge or Bristol |
Summer placements only |
* (1) No first years |
Collins Aerospace | Solihull |
Summer placements only |
* (1) Open only to British citizens/no dual nationals; (2) 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 |
Dialog Semiconductor Ltd | Swindon |
Summer placements only |
* No first year students |
Dukosi | Edinburgh |
Any placements |
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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 | 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 |
Imagination Technologies | Kings Langley (Hertfordshire), Bristol or Cambridge. |
Any placements |
* (1) Candidates should specify which job/s they are interested in |
Infineon Technologies UK Ltd | Bristol |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement for 2022/23; (2) No first year students; (3) Hardware based position. C/Python programming experience advantageous |
Isotropic Systems | Reading |
Any placements |
* Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree |
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 |
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Picocom | 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 |
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Quantum Motion | Oxford or London |
Summer placements only |
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R-P-R | Lymington, Hampshire |
Any placements |
* Requires 12-month placement |
RBSL | Telford, Bristol or Newcastle |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement for 2022/23; (2) Open only to British citizens/no dual nationals; (3) No first year students |
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 |
Renishaw | Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire |
Summer placements only |
* 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 |
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Spirit Semiconductor | 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 |
Teledyne e2v | Chelmsford |
Summer placements; MEng placements |
* (1) No applications from non-Nato countries; (2) Candidates should specify which job/s they are interested in; (3) No 12-month placements; (4) No first-year students |
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.