The Industry Placement is part of the Industry Placement Scholarship program. Students complete a five day work placement in December or January. The students are matched with a scientist or in some case a number of scientists and they work with them for the week.

Some of the placements of students in January 2011 included
- Primary Industries & Resources SA
- Rural Solutions SA
- SA Research & Development Institute
- Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
- SA Food Centre
- Lenswood Research Centre
- Almond Board of Australia
- Loxton Research Centre
- DPI (Dept Primary Industries) Mildura
- Flinders University
- AgriExchange Pty Ltd
- Biological services
- Banrock Station
- Amcor Glass
- SA Murray Darling Basin NRM Board
- Scholefield & Robinson Horticultural Services




