Applicants must satisfy the General Entry Requirements for admission, namely, the Matriculation Certificate and Secondary Education Certificate passes at Grade 5 or better in Maltese, English Language and Mathematics.

Applicants must also satisfy the following Special Course Requirements:

(i) passes at Advanced Matriculation Level at Grade C or better in Pure Mathematics and in one of the following subjects: Applied Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Economics, English, Information Technology, Music, Philosophy, and Physics and

(ii) a pass at Intermediate Matriculation Level in Physics (if not offered at Advanced Matriculation Level) and

iii) a pass at Intermediate Matriculation Level in Computing or Information Technology (if not offered at Advanced Matriculation Level)
or

be in possession of:

(i) five passes in the Secondary Education Certificate Examination, including English Language and Maltese and

(ii) a pass in Systems of Knowledge at Intermediate Matriculation Level and

(iii) a pass at Advanced Matriculation Level at Grade C or better in Pure Mathematics or at a corresponding level of other examinations recognised by Senate for the purpose of the Admission Regulations and

(iv) any one of:

(1) the Higher Technician Diploma of the City and Guilds of London Institute Course No. 8000 in Electrical Engineering

(2) the Diploma in Industrial Electronics, with Credit, of the Fellenberg Training Centre

(3) the Advanced Diploma of the City and Guilds of London Institute Course No. 7235 in Applied Information Technology

(4) the MCAST-BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Computing or

(5) any other qualification from a recognised institution considered by the Board to be equivalent to any of (1), (2), (3) or (4)

Students who lack a grade in only one of the subjects of the Special Course Requirements required at Advanced Matriculation Level shall be admitted under those conditions as the Board may impose to compensate for the missing element. If, by the end of the first year, such students do not successfully complete all the requirements to progress regularly to the second year of the Course, they shall be required to withdraw from the Course and shall neither be entitled to repeat the year nor to progress conditionally as normally permitted under the Principal Regulations.

Successful completion of the Diploma gives access to students to the next stage of the B.Sc (Hons) in ICT when next offered.

The admission requirements are applicable for courses commencing in October 2010. For more detailed information please refer to the bye-laws for the course available here.