Internships and employability experiences
Internships are a great way to support you on your career journey and help you explore different career paths. They can also develop your networks and give you the knowledge to achieve your career goals.
The Careers Centre can offer you:
- an Employability Bursary to help you complete work-related activity
- access to competitions and funding opportunities
- advice and guidance on how to research and pursue internships
- unique employability opportunities at every stage of your university journey
- access to apply to internships and other work experience opportunities
- formal recognition of work experience you have undertaken, where possible
- support with applying to internships in the UK and internationally.
Explore our unique internship opportunities available at every stage of your career journey.
The Careers Centre organises a work shadowing programme in which alumni, friends and staff of the University of St Andrews offer their time for you to shadow them at their place of work.
The Employability Bursary provides up to £700 to help University of St Andrews students complete work-related activity.
Discover competitions and funding opportunities to help you pursue employability experiences.
This certificate recognises professional-level work experience on your academic transcript.
Advice on how to obtain appropriate legally required documentation for an internship in Europe.
Answers to some commonly asked questions.
Find out how to search for UK and international opportunities.
Current opportunities
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Operations & Logistics Internship
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Finance Summer Placements For SSE
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J.P.Morgan EmployAbility Internship Programmes 2025
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London Investment Banking Summer Analyst - Summer 2025
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Mizuho - Project Management Summer Internship
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Rede Partners Internship Programme 2025
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Mizuho - IT Developer Summer Internship
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Mizuho - Banking Summer Internship
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Mizuho - Finance Summer Internship
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Mizuho - Risk Management Summer Internship
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Mizuho - Internal Audit Summer Internship
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Winter Vacation Scheme 2024
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Mind and Matter 2024 Volunteer
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HSBC 2025 Global Banking & Markets Summer Internship Programmes in Hong Kong - HSBC
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HSBC 2025 Global Banking & Markets Summer Internship Programmes in Singapore - HSBC
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Sales Internship (5 months) - Mandarin-speaking - UK wide - T2 Visa Opportunity
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Summer Internship
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Summer Internship 2025 - Corporate Division
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Summer Internship 2025 - Technology Division
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Summer Internship 2025-Business Division
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2025 Summer Analyst Programme
- View all opportunities
The Employability Bursary provides up to £700 to help University of St Andrews students complete work-related activity.
It can be used for things like:
- accommodation for internships
- professional clothing
- dependants' care costs
- development courses
- travel expenses
- volunteering.
The Careers Centre will usually award only one Employability Bursary per student in an academic year.
If you have any questions about the Employability Bursary, ask a question through CareerConnect.
Eligibility
To apply for the bursary, you must be a matriculated student at St Andrews. Students are eligible to apply once per academic year.
To receive the full amount of £700, you must:
- be completing, or have completed, a supported pathway programme at St Andrews or
- be a current Sanctuary Scholar or
- be care-experienced, a carer or estranged, meaning you have been in care at any stage of your life, or are currently in care, or currently caring for relatives, or living without the support of a family network or
- have attended one of the following widening access programmes:
- Sutton Trust Summer School
- LEAPS
- Focus West
- Lift Off
- Aspire North
- Reach
- Fife First Chances Programme
- Scottish Wider Access Programme (SWAP).
All other students can apply for up to £400. Each application will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
What does the Employability Bursary cover?
The bursary covers reasonable expenses you may incur while completing work-related activity, which cannot be claimed back from another funding source.
Examples include:
- travel and accommodation involved in undertaking unpaid work experience and internships
- clothing you need for a work interview
- the cost of a PVG or DBS check for a role
- professional development courses
- funding postgraduates who are participating in unpaid internships within the charity sector
- childcare costs while undertaking work experience or an internship
- employing a personal assistant.
The bursary cannot cover:
- expenses incurred during work time
- expenses incurred as part of a credit-bearing module (such as a final year project, a year in industry, or a medical rotation placement).
Application advice
To increase your chances of success, you should provide as much detail as possible, and explain where you are on your Career Journey and how you expect the bursary will help you to progress. Read blog posts from a recipient of the Employability Bursary for examples of how the bursary can be used, and what impact it can have.
Applications will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis until the fund runs out. Once your application is received, you should receive a decision within ten working days. It can then take up to four weeks after the decision has been made for you to receive the payment.
After completing your employability experience
Once you have completed your employability experience, you will need to provide a short report (up to 400 words) describing the impact the bursary has had on your employability.