2.5-Term Pathway - Foundation Certificate in Science and Health - Continue to Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) - Communications Engineering

For students who've finished high school but don’t meet the entry requirements for university, a Foundation Certificate can help them gain entry to an undergraduate degree. After completing this pathway option students qualify for progression to the 1st year of an undergraduate degree at the University of Essex.

A student’s course length is determined mainly by their English language level (UKVI IELTS score). Students on all course lengths take a set of common or similar modules to gain a solid base of skills for university. Students taking a course longer than 2 terms, will take additional modules designed to improve one or more of their English language level, academic skills, and basic knowledge of particular subjects.

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) - Communications Engineering

Students study a wide range of topics in communications, including:

• Radio frequency circuits and systems • The transmission of digital signals over analogue links • The transfer of audio-visual information

The School is a community of scholars leading the way in technological research and development. Today’s communications engineers are creative people who are focused and committed, yet restless and experimental. It is home to many of the world’s top engineers, and its work is driven by creativity and imagination as well as technical excellence.

Students also cover traditional topics in electronics, including signal processing, circuit design, processors and software.

The School is Top 150 for Telecommunication Engineering in ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2019 and more than two-thirds of its research rated “world-leading” or “internationally excellent” (REF 2014).