Why choose City of Bristol College?

Excellence

Over the last few years, the City of Bristol College has emerged as one of the region's leading education providers.

We are justifiably proud of recently being awarded  'Beacon' status from the Learning & Skills Council for excellence, innovation and our exceptional teaching standards and achievements of our students. City of Bristol College is the only college in the West of England to achieve Beacon status and the award ranks the College as one of the top 10% of colleges throughout the United Kingdom to achieve this.

We are one of the largest colleges in the region with 40,000 part and full-time students and we offer a warm welcome to over 500 international students who choose to study with us.

Choice - our courses

With over 1,000 part time and 170 full-time courses running at various levels centres we are sure to have a course to suit you. We offer qualifications at all levels from Foundation to A Levels, NVQs, National Diplomas, and a wide choice of vocational qualifications.

The number of higher education courses we offer is continually expanding and students gain excellent results.  You can study Higher National Certificates (HNC) and Higher National Diplomas (HND), Foundation degrees and other higher-level professional qualifications.

We have recently received Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) status for two areas of study, Aeronautical Engineering and Supervisory Management.

Programme areas include:

A Levels

Access to Higher education

Accounting

Administration

Aeronautical Engineering

Art, Design, Fashion and Performing Arts

Business

Care and Early years

Circus Skills

Construction

Dance Movement Therapy

Digital Communication

Engineering

English

IELTS

Internet Technologies

Management

Maths

Media, Music Technology & Photography

Science

Teaching

 ...Search our course finder on our website for latest information on courses www.cityofbristol.ac.uk

Support

At the College you will benefit from our supportive and friendly learning environment and first class tutors and facilities. We can offer a choice of accommodation - new self-catering students flats in the city centre or we can arrange home stay.

We can offer you help with study and IT skills, language (if English is not your first language) and advice on immigration, careers and finance matters.

We have links with other international students through the International Centre at Bristol University and Bristol International Student Centre.

Progression

We have excellent links with local schools, employers and universities, which ensures that we can provide suitable progression routes to enable you to progress through your studies.

Our partner universities include: University of Plymouth, Bath Spa University College, Kingston University, University of the West of England and University of Bath.

Why Bristol?

International students choose to study in Bristol because it offers all the attractions of a buzzing big city, but on a manageable human scale. Bristol is an exciting city, but what makes it distinctive is its energy and the mix of historic and new. With its ever-expanding cultural scene and annual city events calendar there's something to interest everyone. See www.visitbristol.co.United Kingdom for details.

The city has a population of 380,000 including a large ethnic and overseas population and with two universities in the city there, is a large student population.

Bristol has superb transport links - it boasts an international airport and excellent rail and road links to London and other major cities.

CONTACT

Telephone: 0117 312 5000
Fax: 0117 312 5050
Minicom: 0117 312 5283

Email: enquiries@cityofbristol.ac.uk

Website: www.cityofbristol.ac.uk