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International students - helping you to meet the English Language requirements for your undergraduate courses in DCU

The International Foundation Certificate (IFC) programme is a pre-sessional undergraduate university course offered in Dublin City University, Ireland.

Are you looking to pursue an undergraduate degree at DCU, but lack the necessary English language skills? If so the International Foundation Certificate (IFC) will help you to achieve these skills, as well as preparing you for the adjustment to university learning in the Irish context. You will also sample a number of modules from your target/destination degree course.

The International Foundation Certificate (IFC) Programme is specifically designed for non-native English speakers who do not meet the English language requirements for direct entry onto degree programmes in DCU. The International Foundation Certificate (IFC) is taken on a full-time basis over one academic year. You will take a mixture of core and specialist modules. The core modules will help you to achieve the English language skills necessary for DCU undergraduate degree programmes and help facilitate your adjustment to learning in an Irish university. The specialist modules allow students to take 1/3 of the modules from the first year of their chosen degree programme. This means that if you successfully complete the IFC programme and transfer to the first year of the degree programme, you will only have 2/3 of the first year workload..

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About You:

If you complete this course successfully you will be guaranteed a place on your target degree course in DCU. You will also be entitled to exemptions from the modules you successfully complete in the Foundation Year.

You will need:

  • A school education that is equivalent to the Irish School Leaving Certificate standard, and
  • Specific requirements for the targeted degree courses (e.g. Mathematics for the engineering degrees), and

English language requirements:

  • IELTS: 5.5 with no component less than 5.0 or
  • TOEFL: 500 (paper based) / TOEFL 173 (computer based) /TOEFL 61(iBT) or
  • DCU Foundation English Test: above 55%.
Course Structure:

The IFC course provides a transition to your target university course by allowing you to sit appropriate Year 1 modules. This corresponds to 1/3 of your degree course, meaning that you will only have to complete 2/3 of the workload when you progress to your target degree. you will have become an integral part of the Irish third level education system.

تحديث بتاريخ 08 November, 2015

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