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.
- 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 and 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 IT-related fields, or progress to a bachelor's degree in IT or a related area of study
- 55% overall grades for CBSE, American, Filipino and Thanaweya Amma in Grade 12 exams
- IB minimum of 24 points
- Two C`s at AS-Level
- Two D`s at A- Level
- BTEC Level 3 Diploma with a minimum pass profile
- Work experience with two references
- Additional English language qualifications/tests may be required if language of above qualifications was not English
HND Computing units – Year 1
Unit 2: Networking
Unit 3: Professional Practice
Unit 4: Database Design and Development
Unit 5: Security
Unit 6: Planning a Computing Project (Pearson-Set)
Unit 7: Software Development Lifecycles
Unit 13: Website Design and Development
HND Computing Units – Year 2
Unit 17: Business Process Support
Unit 35: System Analysis and design
Unit 36: User Experience and Interface Design
Unit 37: Architecture
Unit 45: Internet of Things
Unit 54: Prototyping
| New fees – AED | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Application fee -BTEC | 500 | Non-refundable |
| Pearson Reg Fees | 2500 | — |
| HND (Net Tution Fees) |
34000 | per year |
- Qualification level
- Duration
- Subject
- Intake
Undergraduate pathway
24 months
IT and Computing
Jan | Apr | Sept
