Hello, I'm in the second year of my PhD and was wondering if I'll still be eligible to apply for an internship program?

Hi Isaac. The only requirement we have is that you have to be leaving university and ready to start work in 2021 so basically be in your penultimate year of study.

Can I ask when you are finishing your phd studies?

Thank you very much for your response. I'm due to complete my PhD in October 2021.

Okay, so since you still have 1 year left to go of study then you would be eligible to apply for our Summer Internship programme this summer!

Hope this helps

Thank you very much it is really helpful. Leading on to my next question- given the current nature of things, will graduate applications for 2021 go ahead as normal? Thanks very much.

We have had no communications that would say that applications would not go ahead as planned and as far as we are aware, our applications for 2021 vacancies will open around August/September time as planned!

Great, thank you very much for this. Another question are all graduate and internship programmes available across all UK locations? Thanks again

Good question Isaac. Basically only certain service lines and programmes are available depending on the office. So some larger offices may have more variety in service lines or offering and some other offices may only have Assurance or Tax for example. I'd recommend looking at our website when applications for 2021 open so that you can see what offices offer which programmes and services lines (as this varies year on year too based on business need).

Hope this makes sense

Thanks it is really helpful indeed and I would keep an eye out on the website. Just lastly, if start dates are August/September and I'm not due to complete my PhD till a month after is it still worth applying for the 2021 intake? Thank you.

So you would be expected as part of the training contract to start with us full time in work and full time studying from the start date of September 2021. Therefore you would need to decide whether you not completing your phd until later would allow that?