Focus on your future (Leeds Beckett University UG prospectus 2016)

Your Leeds Beckett learning journey will combine academic study with practical experience and the chance to broaden your horizons through participating in once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, fully preparing you for your chosen career and life after university.

Whether you are being guided by industry experts, building the contacts to help you succeed in industry, working on real projects to develop your portfolio or even helping to lead a student society, your learning experience will help you stand out in today’s crowded job market.

Don’t just take our word for it - 96.8% of our undergraduates are in work or further study six months after graduating and we are ranked third in England for graduate employment.
 
ACCREDITED COURSES
With our range of accredited courses, you can be assured your learning will be informed by best practice and to standards set by professional bodies. By the time you graduate, you’ll have the expertise employers are really looking for.
 
LEARNING FROM EXPERTS
You’ll constantly glean insight and knowledge from people who are leading in their area of expertise, whether it’s being taught by our skilled academics, meeting a range of employers at one of our many campus events, including our Annual Careers Fair, or attending our packed programme of guest lectures delivered by industry experts. Previous guest speakers have included former Leeds Rhinos and England rugby league captain Kevin Sinfield, and Gina Boswell, General Manager of Unilever UK.

To help you realise your potential, you will work particularly closely with our academics. For example, students in our Northern Film School were able to work closely with Principal Lecturer Jennifer Granville, an established actor and screenwriter, in the production of eight short films about the 1984-85 miners’ strike, which were premiered at the 2016 Leeds International Film Festival.

In another example of student and academic collaboration, computer security Senior Lecturer Dr Z Cliffe Schreuders led a cybersecurity project funded by the Higher Education Academy. As part of the project, students ethically hacked into a network of computers in order to improve their hacking techniques and to inform developments of future innovative cyber software.

PLACEMENTS
Placements will enable you to apply what you’ve learned on campus to the world of work and will give you an invaluable taste of your chosen career.

We’ve developed exciting placement programmes in partnership with more than 2,000 companies and organisations. In 2015-16, we arranged 5,231 student placements in organisations such as Disney, Samsung, Apple, Nike, BMW and many more.