Apply for a Scholarship
Applications for 2019/20 have closed.
Answer the questions below to display a table showing companies relevant to you, who were offering scholarships.
*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 |
| Altran | Bath |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement; (2) This is an embedded software or control and instrumentation-focused scholarship; (3) All students should ideally have a minimum of 5 years’ permanent residency in the UK and be able to obtain security clearance |
| Apple ~NEW THIS YEAR~ | St Albans |
Any placements |
* (1) Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree; (2) Longer placements preferred; (3) Must have interest in computer architecture; (4) Candidates must specify which job/s they are interested in |
| Arm Ltd | Cambridge or Sheffield |
Any placements |
* No first year students |
| AWE | Aldermaston or Burghfield, Berkshire |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement for 2020/21; (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 |
Any placements |
* Students must be in the penultimate year of an MEng degree (not BEng) |
| Cadence Design Systems Ltd | Bracknell |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement for 2020/21; (2) No first year students |
| Chess Dynamics ~NEW THIS YEAR~ | Plymouth or Horsham |
Any placements |
* (1) Must include one longer placement; (2) Must have a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in UK; (3) Candidates will be required to undergo security clearance |
| Collins Aerospace ~NEW THIS YEAR~ | Solihull |
Summer placements only |
* Must be successful in Collins Aerospace Security Screening Parameters |
| Critical Software | Southampton |
Any placements |
* (1) 12-month placement required; (2) This is a software-based placement |
| EDA Solutions | Fareham, Hampshire |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement for 2020/21; (2) No first year students |
| Embecosm | Lymington, Hampshire |
Any placements |
* (1) Requires 12-month placement; (2) Must be studying software/computing and have demonstrable interest in compilers, operating systems or AI; (3) Must hold a current passport; (4) No first year students |
| Graphcore ~NEW THIS YEAR~ | 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; (2) Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree; (3) Must be studying software/computing; (4) Placement is software/embedded systems engineering focused |
| Leonardo (Edinburgh) | Edinburgh |
Any placements |
* (1) Must have a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in UK and be able to obtain security clearance; (2) MEng students only |
| Leonardo (Luton) | Luton |
Any placements |
* (1) Must have a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in UK; (2) Placement is software and/or firmware focused; (3) Software/computing course content preferred for software placements |
| Moortec | Plymouth, Devon |
Any placements |
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| ON Semiconductor | Bracknell, Berkshire |
Any placements |
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| Plessey | Plymouth |
Summer placements; |
* No 12-month placements |
| Plextek | Great Chesterford, near Cambridge |
Summer placements; |
* (1) Must have a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in UK and be able to obtain security clearance; (2) One hardware and one embedded software focused scholarship; (3) no 12-month placements; (4) MEng students only: (5) No first year students |
| Qualcomm Technologies | Cambridge |
Summer placements only |
* Candidates must specify which job/s they are interested in |
| 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 2020/21; (2) Candidates must specify which job/s they are interested in; (3) No first year students |
| RN Electronics ~NEW THIS YEAR~ | Brentwood, Essex |
Summer placements only |
* Must hold a valid UK driving licence |
| SEA ~NEW THIS YEAR~ | Barnstaple, Beckington or Bristol |
Any placements |
* (1) Must have a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in UK and be able to obtain security clearance; (2) Longer placements offered provisionally dependant on business needs |
| Sensata Technologies | Swindon |
Any placements |
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| Sky | Brentwood, Essex |
Any placements |
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| STFC | Harwell, Oxfordshire |
Summer placements only |
* (1) MEng students only; (2) No first year students |
| STMicroelectronics | Edinburgh |
Summer placements; |
* (1) No 12-month placements; (2) No first year students |
| Ultra Electronics ~NEW THIS YEAR~ | Weymouth and Portchester |
Any placements |
* (1) Must have a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in UK; (2) All selected candidates will be required to undergo security clearance |
| UltraSoC Technologies Ltd | Cambridge or Bristol |
Any placements |
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| vivaMOS | Southampton |
Summer placements only |
* No first year students |
| 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.