Sixty-nine students are following the University of Malta’s foundation programme this year to prepare to join degree programmes in the next undergraduate intake in October 2015. This is a 50 per cent increase over the number of students in the programme last year.
A total of 31 overseas students successfully completed the one-year programme last year and are now in various undergraduate courses at the University, said Charles Sammut, director of the programme’s board of studies at a certificate awarding ceremony. The students are from Kuwait, Oman, Libya, Russia, Bulgaria, China, Kazakhstan, Palestine, Tunisia, Ukraine and Albania.
The course of study is aimed at enabling international students to obtain the requirements set for students to pursue degree programmes at the University.
There are currently 795 full-time international students from 83 countries studying at University at foundation, undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level.
In addition there are 472 exchange students from universities in Europe, the US, Australia, Canada, China and Japan who will follow a semester or full year of study at the University and transfer the credits earned in Malta to their full degree programme back home.