Supporting your future

At  Essex, we pride ourselves on our first-class business links. We are even the number 1 university in the UK for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), the flagship Innovate UK programme. The KTP scheme helps businesses in the UK to innovate and grow by working directly with University academics and graduates. 

We have business links in a variety of different departments across the organisation and work directly with businesses such as:

• BT
• Mondaq
• Mersea Homes
• Profusion Media
• Provide
• Railscape
• Sea-kit
• And many more - We have 40 KTPs across eight academic departments

As an Essex student, you'll have access to CareerHub, where you can search for jobs and internships; book on to employability events and workshops; and book careers-related appointments with our advisers.

You'll also have access to CareerHub after you graduate and become an Essex Alum too.

As an Essex graduate, you'll also have access to Generation Essex our careers support package for final year undergraduates and graduates - we'll support you for 15 months after you graduate. We also have a range of support for graduates beyond too. 

We highly value our alumni at Essex, up to 33% fee reduction scholarships are available to graduates looking to stay on with us or return for postgraduate study through our fee discount scheme. You are eligible even if you study abroad here or have a spouse / partner studying here as a full-time international student. This token can be spent on one year of postgraduate study at either Masters or PhD level!

Essex offers a comprehensive variety of scholarships to our students. A £500 bursary is being offered to black, Arab or mature students progressing from undergraduate to postgraduate study in the academic year 2022-23.