Discover EY - Social Mobility in Business (Assurance) - April 2026 intake

Immerse yourself in our events and discover what it means to experience EY.

Programme Overview

At EY, we're committed to offering opportunities for all. We live in a diverse world and believe our workplace should reflect this. We’ve designed a programme for students in in their first year of university (or second year on a four-year course), that will give you the tools and experience to support you in your career journey.  

Our Social Mobility in Business programme is aimed at raising awareness with students from lower socio-economic backgrounds enabling them to learn more about EY, network with inspiring leaders, and gain an insight into either Assurance, EY-Parthenon, Tax, or Technology.

What You Will Be Doing

Taking place in April 2026, you’ll participate in an insight experience and exciting activities that give you a taste of life at EY. EY will cover the cost of reasonable travel expenses, and provide a one off payment for attending the event also.

You Will Be

• Developing your professional skills and personal strengths – helping you propel your career into tomorrow.

Exploring your interests, network with peers and ask questions.

Learning from extraordinary leaders who’ve carved inspirational careers, overcome challenges, and made an impact.

Hearing from our EY Social Mobility Network about the structured support, training and opportunities available.

Gaining insight into your chosen business area:

• Audit - go beyond studies and see how we work with clients from local start-ups to big multinational companies.
• Tax - hear how our apprentices and graduates are helping us to transform the world of Tax.
• EY-Parthenon - explore our teams and client projects to give you a deeper understanding of mergers, acquisitions, valuations, as well as looking at the economic circle of our clients.
• Technology - explore an environment fuelled by our use of artificial intelligence, cyber security, data analytics and beyond. And develop an understanding of how your passion for technology can solve complex problems for some of the world’s biggest businesses.
  

Regardless of your chosen business area, our team is dedicated to supporting you every step of the way. You’ll get to prosper in an environment that enables you to learn, shape and grow. And that's not all - you could be fast-tracked onto a Summer Internship or Industrial Placement. The opportunities here are endless.

Locations

Join us in one of our offices on day two across the UK: Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, or Leeds. We advise you to apply to the hub location where you would want to be employed in the future. For the in-person event, EY will cover reasonable travel costs for you to get to the office. Please note, there are no overnight stays for these events.

Hub Locations

Birmingham includes the following office locations: Birmingham and Bristol

Edinburgh includes the following office locations: Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow

London includes the following office locations: Cambridge, London, Luton, Reading and Southampton

Leeds includes the following office locations: Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle

E.g. For example, if you are interested in working in Reading in the future, please apply to the London Hub.