Student programmes

Vacation opportunities and internships

Vacation work is a great way to explore your career aspirations, and our business units often have work programmes to help aspiring new employees with internships, coop terms or vacation work, particularly in engineering and geoscience. The timing of these opportunities differs from country to country and applications are taken through our graduate recruitment site. If you'd like to know when these opportunities arise please register for our graduate newsletter. 

There are a limited number of international internships available for geology, mining and metallurgy students in their third year. Details are published in the newsletter and on the website. 

The Africa/Europe division of Rio Tinto Exploration runs a summer placement scheme as a pre-cursor for recruitment. Details are available on the Europe/Exploration section of  graduate recruitment site.

Scholarships

Rio Tinto offers scholarships to students entering their second year of study in geology, mining and metallurgy at selected universities in the US, Canada, South Africa, the UK and Australia. Eligible universities are shown below and contact should be made though the relevant department at the university:

In addition, some of our business units offer scholarships at their local universities. Please check your local university if it is near one of our sites.