Well officially our building is the engineering front building (The shiny new one with a cafe on the ground floor) but truth be told you have lectures everywhere. It's the same for all courses and a result of having so much going on at any one time I guess. They are never that far away though as the campus is pretty compact.

Reply 24

~Duke

Original post by jamz0770

Hi Jamz,

Thank you for your rapid response!

Reply 25

jamz0770

Original post by ~Duke

Hi Jamz,

Thank you for your rapid response!

Most welcome! Let me know if you have any other questions!

Reply 26

Anita.V

Original post by ~Duke

Hi Anita,

I received an offer last year after I deferred it to 2014. I am a mature international student. Have you confirmed your place yet?

Hi, yes I firmed it a few weeks ago :smile:

Reply 27

balint186

Is there a facebook page for firmers? :smile:

Reply 28

balint186

Original post by jamz0770

Could you tell which book/books you used for the programming 1/2 module (java)?

I'm familiar with web programming and now I decided to look into java, to get a bit of a head start. :smile:

(edited 10 years ago)

Reply 29

jamz0770

Original post by balint186

Could you tell which book/books you used for the programming 1/2 module (java)?

I'm familiar with web programming and now I decided to look into java, to get a bit of a head start. :smile:

Sorry for my slow reply I've been busy for the past few days!

The course text is (or was as it was 2 years ago now) Absolute Java.

There are loads of books on the topic though and as long as you find a basic one it will likely help :smile:

Reply 30

balint186

Original post by jamz0770

Thanks!

Could you please tell us how the degrees are classified? Do all the modules count towards the overall degree classification or are for example first year modules excluded?

Reply 31

jamz0770

Original post by balint186

Thanks!

Could you please tell us how the degrees are classified? Do all the modules count towards the overall degree classification or are for example first year modules excluded?

Assuming you just take the bachelors and not the masters they are weighted;

1st year: 11%
2nd year 33%
3rd year 55%

Don't ask me where the last 1% is, its a mystery. You take 4 units a year, usually a module is half a unit and they are all equally weighted except your dissertation which counts for a whole unit and thus counts twice the amount of a normal module (3rd year)

Reply 32

eloo

Got an offer. In spite of being told that programming is taught from scratch I'm still a bit worried if I would be able to handle programming related modules. Can someone explain what the very first programming modules looked like and also whether they were that complex for programming beginners (I do not have any programming/computer science experience), because I'm pretty scared of my lack of knowledge in this field :frown:

Reply 33

mxjc278

To any UCL students, do you know of any students at all who have been let in with say ABB?
The panic has officially kicked in.

Reply 34

eloo

Could any of graduates tell, please, if the course gives sound foundation for pursuing education in regular Master in Management after finishing BSc?

Reply 35

HL1995

Original post by eloo

I think the programming component in this course is minimal and will likely not be in depth, just some basic programming. I also have no experience in tech/computer software engineering and all that so kind of worried too.

Reply 36

eloo

Original post by HL1995

Also, I'm assuming that there are some programming tasks that we have to do on our own at home. That's why I was thinking if buying a MacBook will be a good idea or after all I will regret doing so because of its incompatibility with some necessary apps that we will have to use.

Reply 37

HL1995

I read on a website that last year 80% of students achieved a 2:1 or a first. Can any current students or students who have graduated provide insight on the relative difficulty of this course (especially the programming elements) and whether it is difficult to obtain high marks?

Reply 38

jamz0770

Original post by mxjc278

To any UCL students, do you know of any students at all who have been let in with say ABB?
The panic has officially kicked in.

Afraid not

Original post by eloo

Could any of graduates tell, please, if the course gives sound foundation for pursuing education in regular Master in Management after finishing BSc?

More than solid foundation, you'd probably be better off specialising in a certain area of management though.

Original post by HL1995

Original post by eloo

The programming is taught from scratch and if you are the sort of person who can get the grades to get in then it won't be a problem to you. I had nothing more than a GCSE in IT and although I wouldn't say I loved the programming modules I got 1st's on both so its completely possible.

Original post by HL1995

Afraid that's not true, its not the hardest course at UCL but not the easiest either. If you're comparing its academic rigour to Law or medicine then yeah but that goes for most courses. In my class I'd say 15% got 1sts. 55% got 2.1's and the rest got 2.2's or lower.

Reply 39

klaraho

Hi all,

Could someone tell me what should I do?

My personal statement is mainly about Management ( Business), but I would love to apply to UCL for the IMB course.

Do you think my personal statement solely on management would be good enough?

What should I do?