Filton College provides a safe, welcoming and supportive environment for you as an international student. Our focus is on security and pastoral care while at the same time offering you a wide and exciting range of qualifications.
Our supportive international team is on-hand to help you integrate successfully into the College, and life generally in the UK.
Bristol is an exciting city and we provide you with a friendly college environment with an excellent reputation. We look forward to welcoming you.
Filton College
Filton College is part of the United Kingdom’s state sector and is a major provider of further education, higher education and vocational training. There are 2,800 full-time and 8,000 part-time students, including nearly 100 international students from 30 different countries throughout the world. We offer Foundation Degrees validated by the University of the West of England, who are also based in Bristol.
The College has excellent new facilities for teaching, learning and support for students including:
- A library and learning resource centre with state-of-the-art IT facilities
- Free internet and e-mail access
- A new £3 million A Level centre
- New hairdressing and beauty salons
- Extensive indoor and outdoor sports facilities
- Unrivalled teaching spaces for Art and & Design
- New 250-seat theatre
Bristol
Bristol is the largest city in the south-west with a population of 420,000. It is located close to England’s beautiful West Country and the glorious Cotswolds and is an attractive, modern, multi-cultural city with excellent leisure facilities. Bristol is also very accessible: London is only a couple of hours away by train or coach and there are very good transport links to the rest of the country.
Bristol is a lively and interesting city; you will always find plenty to do:
- Cafés & restaurants
- Traditional English pubs & modern wine bars
- Nightclubs
- Cinemas and theatres
- Arts centres & galleries
- Museums
- Sports facilities
- Beautiful parks & gardens
- Brand new award winning shopping centre, Cabot Circus
An exciting programme of events takes place in Bristol throughout the year, including fireworks displays, outdoor festivals, live music performances and the world-famous balloon fiesta. For more information on Bristol see www.VisitBristol.co.uk
