From connecting to our employer and alumni networks to volunteering in the community and studying abroad - we’ll help to enhance your career prospects so you can land your dream job.

Make plans towards your successful career through our employability programme York Futures. Learn about successful York graduates through online case studies, talks and mentoring schemes, meet with top employers at our careers fairs and go global through our study exchanges and internships with leading institutions and employers all over the world.

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From our campus Buddha to York Minster's peregrines, our current students reveal 5 things you probably didn't know about York.

Some other unexpected things you may not know about us...

• Jimi Hendrix played a gig on campus in 1967. We named a lecture theatre ‘Hendrix Hall’ in celebration.
• York is famous for chocolate - the birthplace of Terry’s Chocolate Orange. The smell of chocolate often wafts through the city!
• Every year the Department of Physics makes apple pie from a tree on campus that was cut from Newton’s original apple tree.
• Archaeological excavations on Campus East uncovered the oldest surviving human brain in Britain, dating back at least 2,000 years to the Iron Age.
• Campus is brimming with wildlife. The lake and wetlands make it a popular place for many species of wild and semi-wild wildfowl including ducks, geese, grebes, moorhens, coots, herons and swans (including rare black swans).