Bachelor Degree with Integrated International Foundation Year (Healthcare) BSc

Course overview

The Bachelor Degree with Integrated International Foundation Year (Healthcare) offers an opportunity to those international students who have the potential and motivation to succeed, but do not yet have the formal qualifications required for entry to Year 1 of a University of Leeds Healthcare related undergraduate degree programme.

The University of Leeds International Foundation Year is one of the most established and successful programmes of its type in the UK. For more than 30 years it has been helping high-achieving international students to realise their ambition of studying for an undergraduate degree at the University. During this year of study, all your teaching is delivered by academic staff at the University and you are taught on campus and have full access to our facilities.

• IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic or IELTS for UKVI (United Kingdom Visas and Immigration) (Academic) taken at a test centre with overall score of 6.0, with a minimum of 5.5 in each component. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study. You must meet the requirements through a single IELTS test, or via a single test and One Skill Retake. We do not accept IELTS Indicator.
• PTE (Pearson Test of English) Academic or PTE Academic UKVI taken at a test centre with 60 overall and no less than 59 in any component. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study. We do not accept PTE Academic Online.
• TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) taken at a test centre with overall score of 80 with 17 in Listening, 18 in Reading, 20 in Speaking and 19 in Writing. Please note that we do not accept TOEFL MyBest scores and we expect candidates to have met the relevant requirements from a single TOEFL test. We cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study. We do not accept the TOEFL iBT Home Edition or the TOEFL iBT Paper Edition.
• LanguageCert Academic or LanguageCert Academic SELT (Secure English Language Test) taken at a test centre with 65 overall and no less than 60 in each component skill. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study.
• IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) English as First or Second language at C/4. GCSE English Literature may be considered in certain circumstances for some courses.
• IB (International Baccalaureate) – English A (first language) Literature or Language and Literature – 4 at higher level (HL) or 5 at standard level (SL). English B (second language) – 5 at HL or SL.