The pre-university program, Swinburne Foundation Year at Nawaloka College of Higher Studies is explicitly designed for you to have a smooth transmission into university life and your higher studies. With cutting-edge technology and equipment, you can experience how academics meet practice while fortifying your learning capabilities.

• Duration – Eight months

• Next intake – February, June, October

• Delivery mode – On Site (Colombo and Kandy)

Their curriculum is tailored to sharpen your overall understanding on fields of business, engineering, and IT, sculpting your knowledge to suit degree programs and professions you choose in the future. You will cultivate essential soft skills and language skills that are required in order for you to possess a good agency over your academic as well as professional life.

If you can successfully complete this program, you will be eligible to enroll in relevant degree programs at Swinburne since you will already be meeting the set of eligible requirements of the course.

If you are not seeking immediate transfer into a bachelor’s programme, Swinburne offers you the option to continue studies locally through the UniLink Diploma programmes available at NCHS. This will allow you to effortlessly progress into the first or second year of a Swinburne bachelor’s degree.

English proficiency requirements

• Sri Lankan GCE O level – C Grade in either English Language or Appreciation of English Literacy Texts

• UK/Cambridge GCE O levels – Grade C in English subject

Academic entry requirement

• Sri Lanka IGCSE/GCE O-Levels – Satisfactory completion of minimum 3 subjects

Or

• Sri Lankan GCE O Levels – Satisfactory completion of minimum 3 subjects Satisfactory completion of minimum 3 subjects in the UK or Sri Lanka GCE A Levels

Destination courses

Upon successful completion of the Swinburne Foundation Year program, students will gain access to the first year of a related bachelor degree in Melbourne, Australia or Sarawak, Malaysia, subject to minimum academic and course pre-requisite requirements and a related UniLink diploma at NCHS.

For more information on more eligibility requirements, visit the official NCHS website.