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The International Year Zero (IYZ)

The IYZ is the first year of a four-year integrated degree course. Your first year is taught at the college where you will gain extra skills in your subject area, as well as English Language, before you continue to year one of your chosen undergraduate degree course.

Subjects offered:

  1. Business and Management
  2. Computing and Creative Industries
  3. Law and Social Sciences
  4. Science, Engineering and Health

Degree courses available from this pathway

Business and Management

  • BSc Accounting and Finance
  • BSc Business and Management
  • BSc Economics
  • BSc Finance and Business Analytics
  • BSc International Business and Management
  • BSc Marketing
  • LLB Law with Business and Management

Computing and Creative Industries

  • BEng Software Engineering
  • BSc Computer Science
  • BSc Computer Science for Cyber Security

Law and Social Sciences

  • BA Criminology 
  • BA Working with Children, Young People and Families
  • BSc Psychology
  • BSc Psychology and Criminology
  • BSc Psychology with Counselling
  • LLB Law

Science, Engineering and Health

  • BEng Biomedical Engineering
  • BEng Chemical Engineering
  • MEng Chemical Engineering
  • BEng Civil and Structural Engineering
  • MEng Civil and Structural Engineering
  • BEng Mechanical Engineering
  • MEng Mechanical Engineering
  • BSc Clinical Technology
  • BSc Chemistry
  • BSc Biomedical Science
  • BSc Archaeology
  • BSc Forensic Anthropology
  • BSc Forensic Science

Core modules

These are modules designed to enhance your academic and personal development skills for university study in the UK.

Core Module Credits

English for Academic Purposes

30

Academic Skills

20

Introduction to Maths, Data Analysis and Statistics

10

Subject Specific Modules

Depending on your chosen pathway you will study a variety of subject-specific modules designed to prepare you for your degree course.

Business and Management

  1. Introduction to Business Functions and Organisations (20 credits)
  2. Fundamentals of Economics (10 credits)
  3. International Relations and Global Issues (10 credits)

Computing and Creative Industries

  1. Introduction to Computer Science and Systems (20 credits)
  2. Introduction to Programming (10 credits)
  3. Digital Media and Software (10 credits)

Law and Social Sciences

  1. Introduction to the Social Science and Sociology  (20 credits)
  2. Two of:
  • Politics and Society (10 credits)
  • Fundamentals of Economics (10 credits)
  • International Relations (10 credits)
  • The English Legal System (10 credits)
  • Foundation Psychology (10 credits)

Science, Engineering and Health

A total of 40 credits from the following:

  1. Introduction to Chemistry and Biology (20 credits)
  2. Applied Life Sciences (20 credits)
  3. Introduction to Engineering (20 credits)
  4. Further Mathematics (10 credits)
  5. Computer Aided Design (10 Credits)

Tuition Fees

If you are joining a pathway programme at the University of Bradford International College (UBIC), you will first pay your pathway programme fees to our partner, Oxford International. These are listed on the Oxford International website for Bradford pathway programmes.

After you successfully complete your pathway, you will progress to your chosen degree course at the University of Bradford. You will then need to pay the University’s tuition fees for your degree, which are listed on the University of Bradford tuition fees page.