**This new one-year full-time Higher National Certificate course will give you the skills and knowledge needed to progress your career in the fascinating, challenging world of electrical and electronic engineering.**
**About the course**
Electrical engineers are sought after worldwide across the private and public sector, from transport to healthcare, and education to construction.
We’ll develop your knowledge across a range of core and more specialist units. The course will suit you if you’ve completed relevant studies at an advanced level (A Level or equivalent) or have relevant industry experience and want to pursue a career in electrical and/or electronic engineering.
The course contains significant project-based learning including: laboratory investigations, design work, projects, case studies and tutorials.
You’ll undertake independent study and practical problem-solving alongside more traditional methods such as tutorials. You will develop your communication skills and the application of computers in engineering.
**HNC core units include:**
- engineering science
- electrical and electronic principles
- managing a professional engineering project
- engineering mathematics
- engineering design
**Assessment**
Coursework is continually assessed through a variety of individual and group assignments, such as practical activities, written reports and presentations.
**Bursaries**
We want our courses to be accessible to students from any background, so we’ve put together a cash support package in the form of non-repayable bursaries to provide financial help where it’s really needed. Details for 2022-23 will be advertised once approved by the university regulator – the Office for Students (OfS). Please check our website - www.nottinghamcollege.ac.uk - for more information.
**Your career and progression**
The HNC qualification is widely-recognized in its own right and provides students with the skills required for employment in a broad range of industries with either a managerial or technical bias.
After successfully completing the Higher National Certificate, you could top-up your qualification to the Higher National Diploma at Nottingham College, or progress to a degree at a wide range of higher education providers.
Alternatively, you could pursue a career in research and development, design, technical sales and production.
Course Details - Modules
Modules are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
LEC1
Institution code:
N30
Campus Name:
Highfields
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
Typical Offer: Applicants should normally possess (or expect to achieve) a minimum of 32 UCAS tariff points.
All applicants will receive due consideration and a wide variety of educational and other lifetime experiences can be taken into account.
For entry to our university-level courses, we expect applicants to be working (or to demonstrate competency) at Level 2 or above in English Language/Literacy and Mathematics/Numeracy.
Generally, we accept GCSE passes in English Language and Mathematics at Grades 9 – 4 (formerly Grades A* - C).
Experienced mature applicants (those aged 21 or above at the start of the course) with relevant professional or industrial experience and/or qualifications are very welcome to apply.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Students are advised to contact their own national student finance service for up-to-date information concerning potential financial support.
Applicants who are permanently resident outside the United Kingdom, Channel Islands or Republic of Ireland are advised to contact the College's International Office before submitting an application at:
international@nottinghamcollege.ac.uk
Any additional costs or fees are shown on the UCAS page for each individual course.
Provider information
City Campus, The Adams Building
Stoney Street
The Lace Market
Nottingham
NG1 1NG
Career tips, advice and guides straight to your inbox.