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Computer engineering?

  • 18-07-2010 10:16pm
    #1
    wcp1200
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭


    Hi I was wondering how I would go about doing a course in computer engineering in either NUIG or GMIT. I did my LC but was foolish back then and ended not studying all year. I passed everything and got 165 points. So I was wondering is there any other way to do it now.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Blueprint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 476 ✭✭Blueprint


    If you go and talk to the access officer in GMIT, they do a Foundation Cert which teaches you the necessary skills to do a full time degree course. I did it last year and it was really useful, as there was no way I could have kept up with the maths otherwise. It's two full days a week and guarantees you a place in GMIT if you pass. There's also an evening course offered in the NUIG along the same lines. You're pretty much too late to apply for an ordinary college course at this stage of the year, but I think they take applications for the Foundation until much later.


  • #3
    wcp1200
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭wcp1200


    So i can do a course in NUIG with no qualifcations. Sorry I dont know much about any of this. Could you explain what the evening course in NUIG is? Is it like you do it for a year and than you can do the full four year course in there?


  • #4
    Blueprint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 476 ✭✭Blueprint


    Yes, they have an Access course in NUIG, two evenings a week I think and it qualifies you to do a full degree course. There's one for Arts and one to get you ready for Science and Engineering, so you'd need the latter. I think the NUIG one had a deadline of May 30th though, so you may have missed that. GMIT are a bit more open and flexible and the Access officer is lovely, so it's well worth going to talk to her. The interviews are only in late September or October, so there should be time to apply.


  • #5
    wcp1200
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭wcp1200


    Hey thanks. But would nuig not be a better college. I dont mind waiting. Thanks again.I forgot to mention im 18. Are these courses for mature students only?


  • #6
    Blueprint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 476 ✭✭Blueprint


    Hmm, if you're only 18, I'd say your best bet would be to do a PLC course for a year and do well at it, which will get you a max of 400 points to get into College next year. The GTI do an IT course you could do, my brother did it to qualify for the GMIT, where he did Software Development. Whatever you do, you need to do it quickly, as time is running out.


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