What Is A Sandwich Year?

If you are planning for study abroad you have heard about a sandwich year. A number of international universities offer sandwich year courses. A sandwich year is exactly a year that is sandwiched between the 3 or 4 year of degree/ diploma that you have enrolled in.  

Details About Sandwich Year?

Degree programs offered in international universities have 3-4 years duration to cover course work. Some international universities which offer courses that have strong relevance with vocational courses like

• Pharmacy

• Bio medical engineering

• Foreign language study programs

• Degree in design

• Data Science

These study courses give a year of placement that is directly relevant to degree program. This usually happens after two year of degree program. This sandwich year is also called industrial placement year. A sandwich year is most popular in UK universities that is popular with vocational courses. These universities encourage the students to get advantage of practical experience for one year in relevant field as this makes students ready for job.

Sandwich year is different from regular placement in which completion of degree programs is compulsory while in sandwich year, placement of student is just for a short period for practical experience.

What Happens In Sandwich Year?

In sandwich year during placement, students do not attend classes. They just work on industry related assignments and send a work report to head office. These work assignments may be related to lab work, research, processing, manufacturing, client handling, testing of products as per requirements of student’s study program and that industry.

Benefits Of Sandwich Year

• Students get both financial and professional benefits of taking placement year, some of the benefits  are as

• After two year theoretical knowledge of degree program student get chance to see how the knowledge gathered in class can be applied in the real world.

• Apart from it, students have opportunity to gain practical exposure of how industry of their choice operates.

• After spending placement year, student bring practical experience and maturity to their course work after exposure to team work.

• After degree program when students have to appear for job, this sandwich year impress recruiters as they can see student is not just a fresher.

• Some industries offer paid sandwich year where students get benefit to cover their financial expense and it also waive off the university fee for respective year.

What Is The Procedure To Go For Placement Option?

Student have to sign up for the placement before they go abroad. While selecting the degree program, though student can change the status either they are willing to avail the sandwich year or not.

If you are planning for the study abroad degree with high employability then a sandwich year is a good option. It provide a real world job experience which lead to excellent return. If you have further queries regarding selection of course in abroad you can contact to studyabroad.pk team and get free consultancy from our experts.