The Foundation Year Programme is not a stand-alone academic programme. Instead, it is coupled with our Bachelor and Masters programmes. The Foundation Year Programme is not applicable with the Diploma programme. The Foundation Year Programme is designed to help students to integrate into the main academic programmes. The College reserves the right to offer provisional acceptance to applicants to the academic programmes they apply for, with the condition that they fulfil the requirement of the Foundation Year Programme.

The Foundation Year Programme runs for a year (over 2 semesters). If the student is able to obtain a GPA of 2.00 and above (for the Foundation Year Bachelor Programme) or 2.33 and above (for the Foundation Year Masters Programme), then the student will be given full-acceptance to their Bachelor / Masters programme at the end of the year of the Foundation Year Programme. Students who are unable to fulfil this requirement would be deregistered or to be matriculated under a lower academic programme.

If the student does exceptionally well in the first semester of the Foundation Year Programme with a GPA of 3.67 (A-) and above, then the student will be given full-acceptance to their Bachelor / Masters programme at the end of first semester of the Foundation Year Programme.

The curriculum of the Foundation Year Programme includes a maximum of 12 credits / semester. The level of competency required will be based on the academic programme coupled with it. Students in this programme is allowed to take a maximum of 2 core modules / semester for the academic programme which is coupled with the Foundation Year Programme. Only scores of “A-” or “A” will contribute towards the main academic programme.