UK consulting spring weeks.
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Spring week is banking's word. In consulting the same first-year programme is sold as an insight week at one firm, a discovery programme at the next, an immersion or an open day elsewhere, and sometimes a first-year programme with no season attached. Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bain and the Big Four consulting arms each brand theirs separately, and the names change between cycles.

Searching last year's name can return nothing, and a firm may file the event under a heading that never says spring. The table above groups them by what they are, an insight programme for non-final-year students, so filter by the stage you are at, not by the label. Eligibility wording varies more here than in banking, so check whether a firm counts your year of study or your expected graduation year.

Consulting insight applications typically open in the autumn term, deadlines cluster from late November into January, and the programmes run over the Easter vacation in March and April 2027. Banking runs ahead of this, opening earlier in the autumn: see /tracker/finance-spring-week.

The gap is the useful part. If you spent September working out what you wanted, or applied into banking and heard nothing, the consulting round has not begun. Elsewhere a missed window costs a year; here it costs very little.

Consulting firms tend to sign off insight headcount late, and an unbudgeted programme is not advertised, so the list is incomplete on the day term starts. New rows appear through October, November and December, sometimes from firms that ran nothing the year before. Check back weekly through the autumn rather than reading the table once in September.

Most of these programmes do not gate entry on a case interview; where a case appears it is usually a group exercise on the day, and /tracker explains the standard stages. The written motivation answer carries the screen, and it is read for whether the reason you want consulting is a reason about consulting.

Test it: replace consulting with investment banking. If the answer still reads well, you have described an interest in business rather than a reason. Intellectual challenge, variety and fast progression are true of plenty of jobs. The work is more specific: short projects that end in an answer, being staffed on an industry you knew nothing about a fortnight ago, holding a view in front of someone who has run the business for twenty years. No technical knowledge is expected of a first year; one honest reason, stated as a position with two or three supports, is the exercise.