Level 6 (Degree) Apprenticeship

As a Level 6 (degree) Apprenticeship, you’ll graduate with either a BA (Hons) or BSc (Hons) degree, exactly the same as your peers who go to university full time! You’ll feel extra proud when throwing your mortarboard in the air that you’ll have experienced the best of both worlds, you’ll have a great degree and a boatload of experience to back it up, too.

On a degree apprenticeship, you’ll spend 20% of your working week studying towards a qualification at university. You’ll either study at university, online or an assessor might come to see you in the workplace. At this level, the qualification part of the apprenticeship will be quite challenging due to the academic aspect of a degree. As a result, you’ll need formal qualifications to be accepted onto a course. Entry requirements for degree apprenticeships vary, however most will require you to have level 3 qualifications, such as an advanced apprenticeship, A-Levels, BTEC or NVQ. Alternatively, if you have experience in the industry, you may not need recent qualifications or may need fewer of them.

As a degree apprentice, you’ll take on quite a bit of responsibility in your role, whether that’s managing your own team or handling official processes associated with your organisation. A Level 6 apprenticeship will usually last at least 2 and a half years, meaning this responsibility will continue to increase throughout. Don’t be put off by this! You’ll have support from your manager or workplace mentor to make sure you’re not overwhelmed.

If you do your degree apprenticeship with a university, you will also be entitled to everything that the more typical undergraduates get. You’ll have library access, academic support, student accommodation, all of the sports groups, societies and most importantly graduation! This means you won’t be missing out on student life one bit – you may just struggle to find time to do everything you want to do!

If you do your degree apprenticeship with a university, you will also be entitled to everything that the more typical undergraduates get. You’ll have library access, academic support, student accommodation, all of the sports groups, societies and most importantly graduation! This means you won’t be missing out on student life one bit – you may just struggle to find time to do everything you want to do!