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The Exeter Award

Enhance your employability


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Work experience15 or 30 credit modules

  • Can be taken during your second year.
  • Can be taken in your final year provided you have at least 90 level 3 credits in your degree programme from other modules, as the work experience modules are level 2.
  • You can take either a 15 or a 30 credit work experience module as part of your degree. You cannot take both.
  • If you are on the four-year UK Work Experience FCH degree you cannot take the 15 or 30 credit work experience modules in your fourth year.
  • The timing of the work placement can be at any point from the summer vacation prior to the start of the academic year in which the module is to be taken, to the end of the Easter vacation of that year.

120 credit module

  • This is a one-year module taken between the second and fourth years by students on the four-year UK Work Experience FCH degree.
  • The work period can be at any point from the summer vacation at the end of the second year to the end of the summer vacation before the start of the fourth year.