Adding a Year to Your Programme
Study Abroad
You can apply to add an additional year to your degree programme by choosing to study abroad. If your application is successful, you’ll go abroad between your second and final years. The grades you achieve abroad will not count directly towards your final degree, but if you pass the year your degree certificate will show you studied PPL for four years 'with intercalated year'. Study abroad is a very popular option among students, with over 700 students studying abroad each year from across the university.
Here are the destinations that have been available to current students in the three departments in recent years. This list is illustrative of the types of options that will be available in future years:
Australia – Monash University (Melbourne, Australia with the opportunity to spend the second half of the year at the Monash Malaysia campus in Selangor, Malaysia)
Hong Kong – City University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST); Chinese University of Hong Kong
China – Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Tsinghua University; Xiamen University
Japan – Hokkaido University; Kyoto University; Nagoya University; Waseda University
Singapore - National University of Singapore (NUS)
South Korea - Seoul National University
North America - McMaster University, Ontario
South America – Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
Europe – A large number of partner universities in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden.
Work Placement
You also have the opportunity to complete a professional work placement in the UK or abroad, as an intercalated (non-credit bearing) year between your second year and final year. By doing so, you will transfer from a three year degree to a four year 'intercalated year' degree.
You will source your own placements to gain genuine examples to support future applications and interviews, whilst also allowing you to begin applying the skills and knowledge you have been learning on the course.
Languages
PPL students are usually able to take a language in their Second or Third Year. We have a wide variety of languages available to learn at Warwick including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Your Student Experience
There are plenty of amazing and diverse
options for an intercalated year through
all three departments, and I took the
opportunity to study in Salzburg, Austria.
This was an incredible year abroad that
taught me independence through living
in an exciting and unique environment.
Being a part of the Universität Salzburg
community gave me new academic
opportunities in both doing local language
modules and specialist subjects that I
would not have the opportunity to do
in Warwick."
Omar (PPL Graduate, 2022)
