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University Preparatory Certificates: Foundation Courses for International Students at the UCL Language Centre
UCL offers intensive one-year foundation courses to prepare international students for a variety of degree programmes at UCL.
The University Preparatory Certificates (UPCs) are for international students of high academic potential who are aiming to gain access to undergraduate degree programmes at UCL and other top UK universities and whose education systems in their own countries do not offer qualifications suitable for direct admission.
These intensive and challenging courses combine the study of two academic subjects usually studied with Academic English. All lectures, seminars, tutorials (and practical laboratory sessions for Science and Engineering students) are delivered by UCL staff within the university.
UPC students are registered as UCL students and have access to all the academic, welfare, social and cultural resources UCL has to offer. UPC students are supported with their UCAS application and our aim is to ensure that on completing the course, students are confident to embrace the challenges of university study in the UK.
Each year, an average of 50% of UCL UPC students continue studying at UCL as undergraduates. In 2010 60% of UPC students started UCL degree programmes. Forty per cent of former UPC students graduating in 2008 and 2009 received a first-class Bachelor’s degree from UCL. Overall, in 2010 72% of UPC students progressed to the UK’s leading universities.
For more information see our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/upc
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