Our highly-skilled students can make important contributions to your business. There are a number of ways industry professionals can engage with our students. Projects can vary from short summer placements, dissertation projects for taught undergraduate and masters students, year-long placements for final year undergraduates, or collaborative PhD projects. Benefits to your organisation Hosting a student project can bring many potential benefits to your organisation, including: you’ll tap into world-leading research expertise, skills and knowledge to aid innovation, you’ll gain a high-calibre, temporary resource to assist with a strategic project, you’ll deliver on smaller projects that might have been on hold or would not otherwise have been done, you’ll receive fresh insights to a particular business area, a different perspective to problems, and a new motivated member of the team, you’ll create a pool of potential future employees or project collaborators. Undergraduate students Summer placements/internships 4P The Masters degree programs in Chemistry, Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, and Chemical Physics at the University of Edinburgh include the option for students to spend their final (5th) year on a 6-12 month industrial placement. Masters students Taught? Suggest a project PhD students This article was published on 2026-01-15
