First City University College
First City University College First City UC has an excellent track record of producing highly employable graduates, entrepreneurs and award-winners. Besides its own Honors Degree, Diploma and Foundation programmes, First City UC collaborates with UK universities for Dual Degree Award programmes. All First City UC’s programmes share the following goals: .Develop and produce students to be highly competent and well prepared for employment or be entrepreneurs. .Encourage creativity through experimentation, exploration and innovation. .Prepare students to conduct academic research in order to better understand and improve the current state of design. .Prepare students to be professional designers with hands-on use of state-of-the-art equipment such as 3D printers, laser cutter, industry-relevant software in Macintosh labs, and other equipment used by professional designers. Faculty of Design and Built Environment With more than two decades of academic excellence, First City UC takes pride in ensuring its programmes offer a holistic design education and training. Students are therefore equipped with the necessary cutting-edge design skills, besides ensuring they are intellectually and conceptually well developed. Students also participate at local and international exhibitions to showcase their works and capabilities. The Faculty of Design & Built Environment boasts of a teaching team that has years of experience – both in education and industry. With more than 20 years of experience conducting UK franchised honors degree design programmes, harnessing the best of British design education and contextualizing it to local needs and expectations, the First City UC’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes therefore give students the edge in terms of design knowledge and capabilities, employability and entrepreneurship.
