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No prior work experience, qualifications, or university degree are required; instead, applicants must meet at least two of a published set of socio-economic eligibility criteria, developed in line with the UK Social Mobility Commission Toolkit. The programme launched in April 2023 and had welcomed its fifth intern cohort by October 2025, running in closed cohorts rather than accepting applications on a rolling basis. A candidate should check the published eligibility criteria before applying, since entry is screened on socio-economic background rather than academic record, and should watch for the next cohort's window given intakes are periodic, not continuous.

Its early-career entry point, the Landsec Futures internship, inverts the usual screen: no degree, prior work experience, or formal qualifications are required, and selection instead runs against published socio-economic eligibility criteria modelled on the UK Social Mobility Commission Toolkit. That is unusual among real estate employers of comparable scale, most of which filter on academic credentials first. For a candidate who would be screened out by a degree-classification or target-university requirement elsewhere in the sector, this is one of few routes into a firm of Landsec's size where that filter does not apply, worth weighing on that basis alone.