About This Course
About This Course
The Higher National Diploma (HND) in Computing aims to enhance your career and employability in the areas of Computing by developing a critical awareness and industry-centric skills required to succeed in the field.
This diploma is equivalent the first 2 years of a bachelors degree, allowing students seamless transfers to a top-up degree with over 200 universities worldwide.
This course focuses on building current skills in specialist technical software development and allow students to develop up-to-date knowledge in programming and systems development. You will learn how to plan, design and implement a range of different software solutions using an array of computing and programming tools used in the market today.
Learning Objectives
- Equip students with computing skills, knowledge and the understanding necessary to achieve high performance in the global computing environment.
- Offer students exciting career progression opportunities into various specialisms in IT & Computing.
- Provide opportunities to students with a global outlook to aspire to international career pathways.
- Develop strong practical foothold for students to enter or progress in employment in business-related fields, or progress to a bachelors degree in business or a related area of study.
Entry Requirements
- 55% overall grades for CBSE, American, Filipino and Thanaweya Amma in Grade 12 exams.
- IB minimum of 24 points.
- 2 C`s at AS Levels.
- 2 D`s at ‘A’ Levels.
- BTEC Level 3 Diploma with a minimum pass profile.
- Work experience with two references.
- Additional English language qualifications/tests may apply where the medium of teaching is not English.
Course Outline
HND Computing Units – Year 1
CORE UNITS
Unit 01: Programming
Unit 02: Networking
Unit 03: Professional Practice
Unit 04: Database Design & Development
Unit 05: Security
Unit 06: Planning a Computing Project (Pearson-Set)
Unit 7: Software Development Lifecycles
OPTIONAL UNITS
Unit 13: Website Design & Development
HND Computing Units – Year 2
CORE UNITS
Unit 16: Computing Research Project (Pearson-set)
Unit 17: Business Process Support
OPTIONAL UNITS
Unit 35: System Analysis and design
Unit 36: User Experience and Interface Design
Unit 37: Architecture
Unit 45: Internet of Things
Unit 54: Prototyping
Fee Structure
| New fees – AED | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Application fee -BTEC | 2000 | Non-refundable |
| Pearson Reg Fees | 2200 | |
| Miscellaneous Fee | 700 AED | Across all BTEC – courses ( Not an year based fees) |
| HND | 34000/year | Inclusive laptop |
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