Work abroad
A placement abroad will provide you with a unique opportunity to experience a different culture and a new working environment. You will enhance transferrable skills and develop confidence, resilience, and intercultural competencies. You will build academic and professional networks whilst increasing your global job prospects. What you do, and how you structure your placement partly depends on your degree subject and requirements, but also on what you want to do during your time abroad.
Who is eligible
All undergraduate and postgraduate students (regardless of nationality or year of study), can receive funding to participate in placements or internships abroad. You will automatically be considered for Turing funding upon registration if your placement or internship is for 28 days or longer.
Turing grant allocations will be awarded on a rolling, first come first served basis. To increase your chance of securing a Turing grant, we encourage you to register your placement early and as soon as you have provisional dates for a placement.
Registering your placement
For further information please see Surrey Abroad.
All placements abroad, including Professional Training Year (PTY) placements, Health Sciences placements, Vet EMS placements, MPhys placements and PGR placements will need to be registered with the International Engagement Office.
If you have self-sourced a Vacation or Recent Grad Internship that is 28 days or longer, and you wish to apply for Turing funding, you will need to register the Internship.
For details on how to register and links to the required documents, as well as pre-departure guidance, please follow the tab for your stay type on Surrey Abroad.
Find out more
The Employability and Careers Centre provides useful information for those thinking about working abroad.
To find out about the job markets, typical employers and vacancy sources as well as work experience and further study possibilities in more than 50 countries all over the world, please visit the Employability and Careers pages.