What is a Foundation Degree?

• High profile qualification that ensures you graduate with the skills needed to take you forward in your chosen career
• Jointly designed by employers, the College and partner universities to ensure quality and maximise your employability by developing specialist skills and knowledge relevant to a particular sector of the industry. All Foundation Degrees are validated by a partner university
• The majority of Foundation Degrees can be studied either full or part-time over two or three years, providing you with flexible study options to fit around your lifestyle and other commitments and responsibilities, such as work and family
• A flexible qualification enabling you to choose whether to focus on your career or continue studying to gain an Honours Degree in just one year full-time
• Can be studied straight after leaving school or College, but are equally useful for those currently in work to enhance knowledge and skills or to help change career direction

What Foundation Degrees do we offer?

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Administration and Business Technology	Programme Specification (54kb)
Aerospace Engineering Manufacturing	Programme Specification (35kb)
Aircraft Engineering	Programme Specification (134kb)
Automotive Business Management and Technology	Programme Specification (30kb)
Business	Programme Specification (134kb)
Computing and Information Technology	Programme Specification (27kb)
Construction	Programme specification (40kb)
Counselling	Programme Specification (134kb)
Creative Arts Therapy Studies	Programme Specification (58kb)
Dance Theatre Performance	Programme Specification (134kb)
Digital Media Production	Programme Specification (134kb)
Early Childhood Studies	Programme Specification (134kb)
Early Years	Programme Specification (55kb)
Engineering (Electrical and Electronic)	Programme Specification (39kb)
Engineering (Mechanical)	Programme Specification (134kb)
Engineering (Mechatronics)	Programme Specification (39kb)
Graphic Design with Interactive Multimedia	Programme Specification (60kb)
Health and Social Care Practice	Programme Specification (134kb)
Housing	Programme specification (76kb)
Interactive Multimedia with Graphic Design	Programme Specification (72kb)
Professional Photography	Programme Specification (134kb)
Theatre Media Performance	Programme Specification (35kb)

More information about Foundation Degrees can be found on the UCAS website.

'Since starting this course I have become more confident and am able to link theory to practice in my workplace. If you are serious about improving your practice then this course will support your professional development. It has so many rewards I can't endorse it enough.'
Jacqueline Masters-Fry, Early Years Foundation Degree

How to apply to a Foundation Degree course at City of Bristol College