York St John publishes more about this than most universities its size, and
the first line is the one that matters.
It is ultimately your responsibility to secure a placement.
The university offers guidance, support and recommendations. Finding the
placement is yours. That is the same position as Leicester and Roehampton, and it is worth
knowing before the placement route is the reason you pick a course.
Read the first drawer before anything else. It changes how you apply, not
whether you get in.
You cannot apply direct from India. One approved partner handles it.
No route without an English test is published for masters entry.
Applications from India go through one company
York St John states it plainly on its own country page:
Please note that applications from India will only be accepted through our approved partner.
The named partner is Hallbridge Education Group. Not a list, one
company. Northampton has a similar rule with several representatives; here there is a
single route in, and an application you submit yourself is not it.
A partner is paid a commission by the university, so compare York St John
against other universities on published facts rather than on what you are advised. Every
figure on this page came from yorksj.ac.uk.
For most of our courses, you should have IELTS level 6.0 (with no skill below 5.5) or an equivalent qualification.
The India section lists school-qualification alternatives, but scopes them
to undergraduate entry. For a masters, no route that avoids an English test is published.
Of the twenty-two campuses researched for this site, York St John is the only one where
that is true, so do not assume the waiver you found elsewhere applies here.
York St John publishes its assessment types and does not publish a ratio.
On MSc International Business:
We use a wide variety of assessment types, which help you to develop skills relevant to the workplace. This includes: Presentations, Critical essays, Portfolios, Reflective journals, Case study work.
Exams are not in that list. That is one course rather than a university-wide
policy, so read the assessment block on your own course page instead of generalising from
it.
Getting here: Our campus is located on the edge of the city walls in the centre of York, around a 1 mile walk from York train station.
Backlogs/arrears policy - no statement anywhere in the international section or the India entry block
Medium of Instruction acceptance - MOI is not mentioned on the English language requirements page or the India block, so I cannot say it is accepted or refused, only that it is not published
Whether the £3,600 professional experience uplift is invoiced in year two or bundled into the £15,400 up front - only the total is published
A coursework-versus-exam percentage split at PGT level - assessment types are listed in prose and exams are simply absent from the MSc International Business list, which is not the same as the university stating there are no exams
What happens if a student on the 2-year route secures neither an employer placement nor a Venture Creation Lab place - the programme specification names both options but does not address failing to obtain either
A dedicated India country landing page - /international/country/india/ and the country-page URL pattern both return 404; the India content exists only inside the JavaScript dropdown on the entry-requirements-for-your-country-or-region page
The official record
Student Sponsor - Track Record on the Student route. gov.uk, Register of licensed sponsors: students, as of 21 August 2026.
Approved (fee cap) with the Office for Students, degree-awarding
powers since 2015. Office for Students, Register of English higher education providers, downloaded 24 August 2026.
1 year, 2 years with placement are the published course lengths.
Read off the course pages.