Employer Links
Employers play an active part in a large number of our degree programmes, delivering technical lectures and taking a role in professional skills modules.
The majority of our academic schools have graduate employers amongst their advisory board members, who ensure that our degree programmes remain relevant to the needs of employers.
All of our degrees have a strong focus on employability, which is strengthened by our extensive links with employers:
- we have well established links with some of the biggest graduate recruiters, including over 80 of the employers featured in The Times newspaper’s Top 100 Graduate Employers list
- we have excellent links with local employers, who provide a wide range of work experience and graduate opportunities and around 50 per cent of our graduates who go into employment do so in the North East region
- over 2,000 employers advertise vacancies, work experience and placement opportunities with our Careers Service annually
- more than 250 employers visit our campus each year to delivery presentations, hold interviews and attend recruitment fairs, ultimately to recruit our students