UK Foundation Program
UK foundation program is located directly on the university campus， it is a part of university education. The tuition fee here is only 30000-50000RMB expensive than domestic university and it can guarantee teaching quality and students’ future.
Compared with British two-year A-Level studying, the best advantage of undergraduate foundation course is that it can help students who have finished high school in their countries to familiar with England teaching model, studying method and English ability as soon as possible. Compared with the two-year A-Level studying, it can save one year's time and cost. In UK, many universities are provided with their own undergraduate foundation courses, students can directly upgrade in undergraduate course after passing the foundation course exams, the outstanding students can also apply to other better university as well.
Pre-master course is mainly set for those Chinese students who cannot directly apply for the master degree courses. It helps Chinese students improve their English ability, learning method and professional ability so that they will be qualified for the master degree. Many British universities have opened their own pre-masters courses; students can read master degree directly after they are qualified in pre-master course; excellent students can apply to a better university.
Foundation course commencement time and test way
Generally the foundation course lasts 6 months to 1 year. Each university has their own curriculum schedule. The enrollment is always in Jan. and Sep. every year.
Foundation course examination is different from the A-Level public examinations; it is determined by students' assignments, final grades of each course unit and their attendance.
Absolute advantage: UK foundation program provides good language environment so that students can better adapt to the top UK university learning. This cannot be compared with domestic foundation course. UK foundation program strictly implementing conditional enrollment policy to guarantee admission, you only need to pass the foundation course exams then get unconditional admission, no longer need to apply for or re-exam of IELTS.
What kind of students can apply:
1）high school graduate or finish 2 years high school study who wants to read undergraduate program in the UK；
2）3 years of college graduate or undergraduate without degree who wants to read graduate degree in the UK；
3）undergraduate without good academic results who wants to enter famous university in the UK；
4）undergraduate without good language skills to read master directly；
5）wants to change professional master degree to read；
The UK University demands Chinese high school graduates attend one year foundation course before starting their undergraduate learning, and the foundation course should be recognized by universities or directly under university, otherwise they do not recognize academics, some of the good ranking universities in England request student to read foundation course, while other poorly ranked universities barely have strictly requirements.
Domestic Status
Nowadays, there is foundation course held in many domestic education service agencies and universities, and they declare that their partner universities are very good, or top-ranking, but the reality is most of these foundation program is the fake one preparatory, almost all of those are language training classes.
A very simple truth is that the UK Top 20 universities require students to provide the A-LEVEL scores, but currently there is no A-LEVEL course in domestic foundation program, how can they apply for British famous universities???
Advantages of domestic and foreign foundation program
Students with good English and communication ability suit for overseas education with appropriate IELTS score, generally over 5.5 or 6.
Students with poor grades or bad ability suit for domestic foundation course.
How to choose the foundation program
For the foreign foundation program, you should firstly know clearly which universities recognize this program; it’s very important whether the school suit for you. It’s better to choose stable foundation program with higher recognition and longer history.
Do not believe that domestic famous school foundation courses are all good, there is no relationship between school and program, and you should pay close attention to the following aspects:
The foundation program is admitted by which university, what conditions can be directly admitted to the UK University first grade after reading the foundation course. This point is very important, a lot of fake programs are not admitted by foreign universities, even if your IELTS score reaches 7 points, you still need to go abroad to read one year foundation program. Many fake programs explain UK university’ admission requirements in a very fuzzy way because these foundation programs are not admitted by the school you applied.
The foundation program school conditions: Many famous schools foundation course is jointly organized by the various companies, institutions and universities, it will cost too much and the project is very messy, some of them will cost 70 -100 thousand per year, one United States foundation program even costs over 100 thousand per year, some parents only prefer to the expensive ones. The truth proves that the above highly cost foundation program have quite a part of language class.
Application documents
1) Application form
2) IELTS transcript
3) High school certificate or studying certificate
4) 3 year high school transcript
5) 1-2 recommendation letters
6) Personal statement
7) Some schools need application fee e.g.: SOAS, University of London ￡90, University of Reading ￡40
8) Some schools need UCAS to apply for example: university of Bath
Compared with British two-year A-Level studying, the best advantage of undergraduate foundation course is that it can help students who have finished high school in their countries to familiar with England teaching model, studying method and English ability as soon as possible. Compared with the two-year A-Level studying, it can save one year's time and cost. In UK, many universities are provided with their own undergraduate foundation courses, students can directly upgrade in undergraduate course after passing the foundation course exams, the outstanding students can also apply to other better university as well.
Pre-master course is mainly set for those Chinese students who cannot directly apply for the master degree courses. It helps Chinese students improve their English ability, learning method and professional ability so that they will be qualified for the master degree. Many British universities have opened their own pre-masters courses; students can read master degree directly after they are qualified in pre-master course; excellent students can apply to a better university.
Foundation course commencement time and test way
Generally the foundation course lasts 6 months to 1 year. Each university has their own curriculum schedule. The enrollment is always in Jan. and Sep. every year.
Foundation course examination is different from the A-Level public examinations; it is determined by students' assignments, final grades of each course unit and their attendance.
Absolute advantage: UK foundation program provides good language environment so that students can better adapt to the top UK university learning. This cannot be compared with domestic foundation course. UK foundation program strictly implementing conditional enrollment policy to guarantee admission, you only need to pass the foundation course exams then get unconditional admission, no longer need to apply for or re-exam of IELTS.
What kind of students can apply:
1）high school graduate or finish 2 years high school study who wants to read undergraduate program in the UK；
2）3 years of college graduate or undergraduate without degree who wants to read graduate degree in the UK；
3）undergraduate without good academic results who wants to enter famous university in the UK；
4）undergraduate without good language skills to read master directly；
5）wants to change professional master degree to read；
The UK University demands Chinese high school graduates attend one year foundation course before starting their undergraduate learning, and the foundation course should be recognized by universities or directly under university, otherwise they do not recognize academics, some of the good ranking universities in England request student to read foundation course, while other poorly ranked universities barely have strictly requirements.
Domestic Status
Nowadays, there is foundation course held in many domestic education service agencies and universities, and they declare that their partner universities are very good, or top-ranking, but the reality is most of these foundation program is the fake one preparatory, almost all of those are language training classes.
A very simple truth is that the UK Top 20 universities require students to provide the A-LEVEL scores, but currently there is no A-LEVEL course in domestic foundation program, how can they apply for British famous universities???
Advantages of domestic and foreign foundation program
Students with good English and communication ability suit for overseas education with appropriate IELTS score, generally over 5.5 or 6.
Students with poor grades or bad ability suit for domestic foundation course.
How to choose the foundation program
For the foreign foundation program, you should firstly know clearly which universities recognize this program; it’s very important whether the school suit for you. It’s better to choose stable foundation program with higher recognition and longer history.
Do not believe that domestic famous school foundation courses are all good, there is no relationship between school and program, and you should pay close attention to the following aspects:
The foundation program is admitted by which university, what conditions can be directly admitted to the UK University first grade after reading the foundation course. This point is very important, a lot of fake programs are not admitted by foreign universities, even if your IELTS score reaches 7 points, you still need to go abroad to read one year foundation program. Many fake programs explain UK university’ admission requirements in a very fuzzy way because these foundation programs are not admitted by the school you applied.
The foundation program school conditions: Many famous schools foundation course is jointly organized by the various companies, institutions and universities, it will cost too much and the project is very messy, some of them will cost 70 -100 thousand per year, one United States foundation program even costs over 100 thousand per year, some parents only prefer to the expensive ones. The truth proves that the above highly cost foundation program have quite a part of language class.
Application documents
1) Application form
2) IELTS transcript
3) High school certificate or studying certificate
4) 3 year high school transcript
5) 1-2 recommendation letters
6) Personal statement
7) Some schools need application fee e.g.: SOAS, University of London ￡90, University of Reading ￡40
8) Some schools need UCAS to apply for example: university of Bath
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