Mentoring

How can students benefit from alumni expertise?

UCL Connect

For students who are intellectually curious and want to attend lecture-style learning events.

This is our event series for students and alumni to develop their career and personal competencies through lectures and panel events delivered by alumni experts. We run three events per term, with at least one per term being in-person.

These are great opportunities to meet other students and alumni, and learn insights about industries

To see previous and upcoming events, please visit the UCL Connect homepage.

Alumni Networking

If you are a UCL student, you can stay connected with UCL’s official alumni network through social media: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/alumni/about-0.

If you are a UCL alumni, you can now find UCL’s official alumni network on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/groups/57385.

LinkedIn is a great tool for building your professional network and making connections, whether you are looking for advice from UCL alumni, interested in joining relevant sector groups, or applying for a job.

As a UCL alumni, there are various mentoring schemes you can sign up to mentor current UCL students.

Discover more about how to make the most of LinkedIn and social media:

UCL Alumni Skills Mentoring Programme

For committed students who want to meet an alumni mentor once a month for 6 months.

This is a 6-month scheme for students who want a long-term mentoring relationship. The focus of the mentoring scheme is transferrable skills, so the Alumni and Supporter Relations team will match students with an alum who has their desired skillset or career path.

Getting a mentor that matches all the students’ desired criteria is exceptionally challenging, so please note that it is immensely valuable to have a mentor who is passionate, has transferrable skills, and good networks. Even if they don’t have your dream job, they can introduce you to people in their networks who do.

We expect mentors and mentees to meet once a month for about an hour.

How to apply: please check the alumni mentoring webpage in Term 1 (likely October) 2025.

Student Alumni Chats

For students who want to meet new people and have a one-off chat with an alum.

This is a programme that the Alumni and Supporter Relations team run in Term 1 and Term 2. Students are usually matched with an alum who studied a similar degree and/or is from a similar country. The goal is to have a minimum of one 30 minute chat about how to make the most of life at UCL and what pathways are available post-graduation.

This is an excellent opportunity to have a micro-mentoring conversation with someone who has been in your shoes.

In future rounds, the matching criteria may change, but we always aim to match students to an alum with whom they share something in common as we know this is useful for building relationships.

How to apply: please check our Alumni Chats webpage in Term 1 (likely October) 2025.