Question 1

What is a placement year?

Accepted Answer

A placement year is a period of work at an organisation taken between the penultimate and final year of a degree, usually at least 30 weeks and most often a full year, the University of Suffolk says. It turns a three-year course into four, and most placement year opportunities are paid, Suffolk says. In New York, New York Tech and Pace University call a full-time work term during a degree a co-op. New York Tech's co-op alternates semesters of study with a period of full-time, paid work at a partner company in the New York metropolitan area.

Question 2

How long is a placement year?

Accepted Answer

A UK placement year is usually at least 30 weeks and most often a full year, the University of Suffolk says. New York Tech's co-op is 24 weeks of full-time work, 36 hours or more a week, in one term: summer and fall, or spring and summer. It generally adds one semester to a student's time to graduation, New York Tech says. Pace University's Accounting Winter Co-op runs full-time from early January to mid-March, before an accelerated spring semester of study.

Question 3

Which firms offer placement years in New York?

Accepted Answer

Our record follows 24 firms for 2027–28 placements in New York, and 8 of them list placement roles there today, 12 roles between them, as the firm table shows. Since the season began on 1 June 2026, 24 of them have posted a placement role in New York, and 16 of those are no longer listed.

Question 4

When do co-op applications in New York open?

Accepted Answer

At Pace University, eligible accounting students apply through Career Services early in the fall of their fourth year for its Accounting Winter Co-op, which begins in the first week of January. New York Tech's students take a preparation course, ETCS-300, in the semester before their co-op. Pace's catalog says the Big Four and the other participating firms prefer to offer the co-op in the January to March busy season. Each firm our record follows posts on its own day, which the firm table gives. Since 1 June 2026, 24 of them have posted a placement role in New York.

Question 5

Who can apply for a placement year or co-op in New York?

Accepted Answer

At the two New York universities we checked, a co-op comes in the third or fourth year of a degree: New York Tech's in either, Pace University's accounting co-op in the spring of the fourth. New York Tech's co-op is optional, takes an application and must relate directly to the student's field of study. Pace's is open to students in any of its accounting programs, on either campus, with a GPA of at least 3.3. A UK placement year is taken between the penultimate and final year, the University of Suffolk says.

Firm	Open roles	Opened
Tetra Tech	1	10 Nov
Mercer	1	27 Oct
IBM	2	16 Oct
Nokia	1	13 Oct
Ellington Management Group	1	26 Sept
Morgan Stanley	3	18 Sept
Priceline	2	10 Sept
Qube RT	1	8 Sept

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