FOUNDATION YEAR
International students please refer to the undergraduate international student pathways – see page 39
WILL STUDYING A FOUNDATION YEAR MEAN I AM BEHIND OTHER STUDENTS? Not at all – many of our students who have studied a foundation year outperform students who start on year 1 of the main degree. Many go on to get first class honours, are brilliant ambassadors for the University and are highly valued by their department. Nathan Pine, a Physics alumnus, graduated with a first class honours degree and an amazing final result of 92%. Nathan was also listed as a co-author on a research paper, alongside his tutor and a PhD student. Not bad for an undergraduate! NATHAN SAYS: I didn’t reach my full potential at sixth form and so over my foundation and first year at Swansea I realised my true priority was my studies, slowly building my grades higher and higher. This gave me a strong work ethic going into second and third year allowing me to obtain very high percentage grades consistently across a variety of modules. WHAT IS A FOUNDATION YEAR? If you don’t have the necessary entry requirements to enter on to the first year of a degree, you can apply for a place on a degree course with an integrated foundation year. This means that you will be studying for four years instead of three. During your first year, you will be able to improve your skills and increase your knowledge of the
subject. After successful completion, you will then go straight on to the main degree course. When you graduate, it will be as though you’ve graduated from the three-year degree course and your qualification will be a Bachelors degree, e.g. BSc (Hons) or BA (Hons).
WHAT OTHER SKILLS CAN I LEARN IN MY FOUNDATION YEAR?
Depending on your subject, you can brush up on other skills that you might need. For instance, if you want to study Physics, but your Maths at A level let you down, Integrated Foundation Year gives you a great opportunity to get your Maths up to scratch. You will also become more confident in your own abilities. WHAT QUALIFICATIONS DO I NEED TO APPLY? We consider applicants on their own merits, so offers may vary, but we guarantee † that we will make you an offer. This might be in the form of a typical grades offer. The typical offer is listed on the subject pages in this prospectus, but we are happy to accept a range of other qualifications, so please check the individual course pages on our website for more detailed and subject specific criteria at: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses
• Accounting & Finance • Applied Medical Sciences • Biosciences • Business Management INTEGRATED FOUNDATION YEAR SUBJECT AREAS • Chemistry • Computer Science • Economics
• Engineering • Geography • Humanities
• Mathematics • Science • Physics
† Guaranteed conditional offers do not apply to professional courses, and normal selection procedures apply. Full details of our Guaranteed Offer Policy can be found at swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/how-to-apply/guaranteed-offers
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