Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Information Technology with Foundation Year

A four year route opening with a foundation year, covering computing and study fundamentals before three years of information technology at degree level.

Information technology is the infrastructure side of computing, and the foundation year gives time to build the systems and networking grounding it assumes.

Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Information Technology with Foundation Year is taught at the University of West London, a UK university with degree awarding powers. Because the information technology foundation route is a degree, it supports an application under the UK Graduate Route, which gives two years of unsponsored work in Britain after the information technology foundation route ends, or three years for a doctorate. To claim it after the information technology foundation route you must be inside the UK on a valid student visa when you apply. One limit applies to the information technology foundation route as to every taught course in Britain: the rules introduced in January 2024 stop taught students bringing a spouse or children as dependants, so the information technology foundation route cannot support a family move.

Entry to Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Information Technology with Foundation Year is Class 12 or equivalent at 50 percent or above. The English requirement is IELTS 5.5 with no band below 5.5, and tuition for the information technology foundation route is recorded at GBP 16,750 a year. UWL charges no application fee, so applying for the information technology foundation route costs you nothing, and no scholarship is recorded against it. the information technology foundation route lists four entry windows a cycle. Apply Study Visa manages the the information technology foundation route application, the deposit, the offer, the CAS and the UK student visa as one process.