Easier admission for DBIT Students with Top-Rated University College London (UCL)

Good news for DBIT students! University College London, one of the world's top universities, has relaxed admission requirements to one of their important business courses for DBIT SP Students.

UCL is now accepting DBIT students admission to the second year of the BSc Information Management for Business course. Not only that, DBIT students also get consideration to the third year of the four year MSc Information Management for Business course.

Below is the complete text from UCL's management:

"Students from Diploma in Business Information Technology (DBIT) course from Singapore Polytechnic will be admitted to the BSc (Information Management for Business) from University College London (UCL) second year, taking Foundations of Management (MSIN1001) as their second year elective on a case by case basis. That students from DBIT course will be considered for admission to the third year of the four year MSc (Information Management for Business) programme on a case by case basis."

Of course, this is a good recognition of the quality of learning students get from the DBIT Course!

About University of College London (UCL)

For those who may not be familiar, UCL is ranked seventh in the world's top ten universities by the QS World University Rankings (2011) as reflected in performance in a range of rankings and tables. 21 Nobel prizewinners have come from the UCL community. You can view the list of nobel price winners here.

It is also interesting to note some other important facts about UCL:

• 38% of UCL students come from outside the UK, attracted from nearly 140 countries around the globe.
• More than 4,000 academic and research staff at UCL are dedicated to research and teaching of the highest standards.
• In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) UCL was rated the best research university in London, and third in the UK overall, for the number of its submissions which were considered of ‘world-leading quality’.
• UCL has the highest number of professors of any university in the UK, with 705 established and personal chairs, as well as the joint highest number of female professors with 135.

About the BSc/MSc Information Management For Business

Some of the aims include:

• provide students with a broad and comprehensive background of business operations, procedures and culture applicable to a career in a technology and business oriented environment.
• equip students with sufficient business, technical and managerial knowledge to play a key role in the companies and organisations of the future
• encourage students to develop an innovative and entrepreneurial approach to recognising and grasping business opportunities.

The course also works in close collaboration with some of the biggest employers in the UK - including British Airways, BT, Morgan Stanley, HP, IBM, Fujitsu, Apple, Microsoft and Unilever - and provides "a unique balance of IT, management, business and leadership that is deigned to ensure that graduates have the skills, qualities, education and understanding that they need to excel in and lead the industries and companies of the future".

You can read more about this BSc and MSc degree here.