manchester foundation year in engineering

Hello there,

I got conditional offer from the University of Manchester. They accepted me onto Engineering with an Integrated Foundation Year course. I have no idea about how is like to study foundation Year in Manchester University. I haven't decided to go to Manchester University too but I would like to listen people who completed this course in manchester and can give me some information about the foundation year course structure also such as how many students gonna be there? How much of them can achive to progress onto first year of their degree? If someone can help me about that I will be pleased to hear.

Thanks in advance

if you firm them they give you access to what is basically the first modules, i did maths and physics and it's really easy...

Thank you very much for your reply. You gave me more hope. I would like to ask you this question too. I have been learning English since 2 years and I completed my high school for 2 years ago. I am quite worried about my background knowledge about Maths and Physics. I forgot most of the topics where I already studied before. Now, What do you think about that Attending foundation Year at the University of Manchester could improve my background in physics and maths? Do you think Is it gonna be beneficial for me? If you can also comment about that. I will be grateful to you my mate.

Many thanks

Well I know it helps a lot because those are basically the only 2 topics you will study and you can always get help if needed, but you really shouldn't struggle with the first few topics which should be fairly basic maths etc if I aced them, I'm sure if they've accepted you, you shouldn't struggle, but yes depending on what course you want to do, this will be extremely beneficial to you, it means you can study any engineering course at the uni and you will be ahead of the rest of the class, what are your other options though?

just read you want to do aerospace, yes it's great also Manchester although low(er) in the u.k rankings that is only due to stupid student satisfaction ratings else it'd be top 10 for sure, also Manchester is one of the ones which anywhere in the world you can go easily as it's higher in the world rankings than the u.k ranking

I will be soon I used to visit very regularly as my ex went there, but to me it's the most amazing university ever! thank god my ex left haha :L but yes the UK rankings are messed up, if you don't take student satisfaction, which seems to be a tad flawed as most people going to Manchester seem to love it then it would easily be top 10 in the UK, they're 3rd in the country for research etc... Sheffield I have heard is brilliant for it and I have friends there who love it, but I didn't like it as much as manc, southampton ranks highly...personally i dislike it...doesn't have the same roots as manchester etc, but if you are going to be working abroad or might plan to, take manchester if not perhaps Sheffield would be the better option, are they all foundation course offers, and what are your offers? also 18th isn't low... there are 116 uni's Brunel is specialist engineering and ranks 40th or something ... but tell me what you want from a university that way i can help a bit more, like social life, type of people you want to meet, what sort of accommodation and architecture you like, Manchester's buildings look fantastic! urmm just some background, as your offer is conditional you have got your insurance too... have you visited either of them?

I will be soon I used to visit very regularly as my ex went there, but to me it's the most amazing university ever! thank god my ex left haha :L but yes the UK rankings are messed up, if you don't take student satisfaction, which seems to be a tad flawed as most people going to Manchester seem to love it then it would easily be top 10 in the UK, they're 3rd in the country for research etc... Sheffield I have heard is brilliant for it and I have friends there who love it, but I didn't like it as much as manc, southampton ranks highly...personally i dislike it...doesn't have the same roots as manchester etc, but if you are going to be working abroad or might plan to, take manchester if not perhaps Sheffield would be the better option, are they all foundation course offers, and what are your offers? also 18th isn't low... there are 116 uni's Brunel is specialist engineering and ranks 40th or something ... but tell me what you want from a university that way i can help a bit more, like social life, type of people you want to meet, what sort of accommodation and architecture you like, Manchester's buildings look fantastic! urmm just some background, as your offer is conditional you have got your insurance too... have you visited either of them?

I haven't visited to Manchester and others as well but I will be visiting respectively them soon. My heart goes more Manchester because Manchester University is well-known in the world and has a very high reputation. If I consider manchester's world rankings, they are brilliant for me but the most important thing for me right now, I want to find out first about foundation year. Do you know how many students are there approximately in engineering with an foundation year course?Are they mostly from international countries or there are also students from the UK as well? Do you also comment about Can most of them achieve to pass overall grade for automatically entering first year of their chosen degree?What is the average grade to be able to progress onto first year? And Could you also make it clear, Am I gonna see only physics and maths during the foundation year? If you can tell me more about those questions than I will ask you other questions about the manchester's sociallife, type of people I want to meet and what's like to live in Manchester etc...First, I would like to give my priority to university's foundation year programme. Secondly, when I will decide to go to manchester than I will focus on accommodation and other things. I asked you a lot of questions , I hope, it doesn't make you bored. Thanks in advance

wow, a lot to work with here haah, I have no real idea of how mnay there are, when I was at interview they said 200-300 ish? but obviously you won't see all of them, it's a big mix of UK and Foreign, most if not all the ones I have spoken to so far are English, but that's because I don't know that many internationals etc or not many are on this site, urmm the pass mark is 60% to do Beng 70% Meng but that must continue through your first year on the course as well, If you work you should have no problem passing, so if you don't get 60% you aren't accepted onto the next year. And yes it will be mainly maths and physics with practicals , tad bit of computing etc, everything you need for the course, then you can join societies to pick up more things, on any foundation course it will be basically the same, however manchester's is run only in the uni, others tend to run them outside in schools and stuff, manchester is definatley the place to me IMO, good ranking, good fun, great course!

wow, a lot to work with here haah, I have no real idea of how mnay there are, when I was at interview they said 200-300 ish? but obviously you won't see all of them, it's a big mix of UK and Foreign, most if not all the ones I have spoken to so far are English, but that's because I don't know that many internationals etc or not many are on this site, urmm the pass mark is 60% to do Beng 70% Meng but that must continue through your first year on the course as well, If you work you should have no problem passing, so if you don't get 60% you aren't accepted onto the next year. And yes it will be mainly maths and physics with practicals , tad bit of computing etc, everything you need for the course, then you can join societies to pick up more things, on any foundation course it will be basically the same, however manchester's is run only in the uni, others tend to run them outside in schools and stuff, manchester is definatley the place to me IMO, good ranking, good fun, great course!

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Does anyone have info about how many students will be attending the course (approximately)? I saw someone mention there were 2 people with him and I don't think this is what I want...