Are you the First Year Undergraduate of the YearAre you the First Year Undergraduate of the Year

Open to undergraduates studying any degree subject
who have just started their SECOND year.

 

We're searching the best universities in the UK to find the current second year who will be crowned the outstanding First Year of the Year. We're looking for a winning mix of personal skills, career motivation and an excellent academic record. The rewards are great: the winner will receive a guaranteed place on Ernst & Young's 2011 six-week summer internship programme and a place at their International Leadership Conference in Florida. He/she will collect the award at a gala event in Canary Wharf, London on 15 April, 2011.

Even if you don’t win, you still stand a chance of making the final shortlist of ten, all of whom will be royally looked after by the sponsor Ernst & Young and invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards as their guests.

So if you have just finished your first year and are a second year student studying any degree subject…

And you have a minimum of 300 UCAS points and are expecting at least a 2.1...

And you think you were (last year) the best first year undergraduate in the UK, click the big button below.

Closing date for entries
is 31 January 2011.

Enter now

How do I win it then?

It’s not easy to win the Undergraduate of the Year Award and competition will be fierce. The process is demanding and only the truly outstanding and committed will make it to the last 10. There are three stages that you’ll have to get through.

Stage One:
Submit your personal data and answer three special questions posed by the sponsor of the Award.

Stage Two:
Complete three online tests designed exclusively by our partners SHL, Europe’s leading test provider. The online assessment will take you around an hour to complete and somewhere between 30 and 50 will pass through to the next stage. The closing date for entry is January 2011.

Stage Three:
The sponsor will seek to find a shortlist of ten from the undergraduates who pass the first stage. This will be done in a variety of ways including telephone interviews, assessment centres and further tests (depending on the sponsor). The final shortlist of ten is invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards in Canary Wharf London on 15 April where the winner will be announced.

Please note: if you want (and are eligible) to apply for more than one award, you must register using a different email address each time.

Last year's winner:
Leanne Sweet

I am from Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset and I am 20 years of age. My future ambition is to become an auditor at a successful accounting firm and I am studying accounting as it combines my passion for mathematics and business. At university, I am currently a tutor/mentor to help underperforming schools.

Tell me about Ernst & Young

At Ernst & Young we’re committed to helping our people, our clients and the communities around us achieve their potential – it’s how we make a difference.

You might not think you’re the right “type” or that you haven’t studied the right subjects to work here, but there’s a good chance you have. That’s because everyone at Ernst & Young brings different skills and traits with them – some purely technical, others less easily defined. What matters to us and to our clients, is that we all know our strengths and work to them. We are 135,000 people, in 700 locations across 140 countries around the world. We work with our clients on Assurance, Corporate Finance, Tax and Advisory – always aiming to help them realise the potential in their business.

Find out more about Ernst & Young at:
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