Undergraduate international foundation year courses
An international foundation year course can prepare you extremely well for university study.
Alliance Manchester Business School does not currently offer an integrated foundation year programme. However, we accept a range of foundation year qualifications from the following providers for progression into the first year of study at Alliance MBS.
The information published here is intended only as a helpful guide. Satisfying the grade requirement of your course is only one aspect of the application and does not guarantee admission.
Our ratio of applications to places is extremely competitive. This means that we cannot offer a place to every applicant who has the required predicted grades and all applications are assessed holistically by the Admissions Team. Predicted grades are considered alongside other information, including the personal statement, academic reference, completion of all sections of the application and provision of your complete academic history relevant to meeting our entry criteria.
2025 Entry Requirements
Abbey College Cambridge
Successful completion of the International Foundation Programme in Business Management and Economics, with a minimum overall average of 80% including at least 75% in each module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
Abbey College Manchester
Successful completion of the International Foundation Programme in Business Economics, with a minimum overall average of 80% including at least 75% in each module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
Bath Academy (David Game College Group)
Successful completion of the University Foundation Programme in Business and Finance, with grades AAA in your major modules plus grade A in minor module Mathematics.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
Bellerbys College
Successful completion of the Foundation Programme in Business, Finance and Management OR Marketing, with a minimum overall average of 75% including at least 70% in each module. Business Mathematics must be taken as a subject module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
CATS College (Canterbury, London or Cambridge)
Successful completion of the University Foundation Programme OR the Fast-Track University Foundation Programme, with grades AAA including Mathematics.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
David Game College
Successful completion of the University Foundation Programme in Business and Finance, with grades AAA in your major modules plus grade A in minor module Mathematics.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
INTO Manchester (The University of Manchester pathway)
Standard requirements - Successful completion of the INTO Manchester International Foundation in Humanities and Social Sciences with grades AAA. Mathematics must be taken as a subject module. Plus EAP grade A overall with writing and speaking at grade A and listening and reading at grade B.
INTO Manchester (The University of Manchester pathway) students are guaranteed a conditional offer to study at the University of Manchester, subject to attaining the necessary academic and English language grades.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
If you're applying for BSc (Hons) Business Accounting with Industrial/Professional Experience, you'll also need to take part in an external assessment process done by PwC. If you successfully pass the assessment process, you'll get a guaranteed conditional offer for the programme - you still must meet the academic and English language requirements.
INTO Manchester (NCUK and Manchester Metropolitan University pathways)
Standard requirements - Successful completion of the INTO Manchester International Foundation in Business and Humanities with grades AAA. Mathematics must be taken as a subject module. Plus EAP grade A overall with writing and speaking at grade A and listening and reading at grade B.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
INTO Newcastle University
Successful completion of the International Foundation in Business and Management, with a minimum overall average of 75% including at least 70% in each module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
INTO University of Exeter
Successful completion of the International Foundation in Accounting and Finance, and Management OR Economics, Finance and Management OR Mathematics with Economics, Finance and Management, with a minimum overall average of 70% including at least 65% in each module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
Kings Education (Oxford, London, Bournemouth or Brighton)
Successful completion of the Advanced Level Foundation in Business, Finance and Management, with a minimum overall average 75% including at least 70% in Mathematics.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
Lancaster University
Successful completion of the International Foundation Year in Business and Management Studies, with a minimum overall average of 75% including at least 70% in each module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
NCUK International Foundation Year
Successful completion of the NCUK International Foundation Year with grades AAA. Mathematics must be taken as a subject module. Plus EAP grade A overall with writing and speaking at grade A and listening and reading at grade B.
ONCAMPUS Coventry
Successful completion of the International Foundation Programme in Business, Economics, Finance and Management, with a minimum overall average of 80% including at least 75% in each module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
ONCAMPUS London (Birkbeck University of London)
Successful completion of the Undergraduate Foundation Programme in Business, Economics, Finance and Management, with a minimum overall average of 80% including at least 75% in each module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
Oxford Brookes
Successful completion of the International Foundation Diploma (Business Pathway), with a minimum overall average of 75% including at least 70% in each module. Please note; the subjects of your modules will be taken into consideration when making a decision on your application.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
Queen Mary University of London
Successful completion of the International Foundation Diploma in Business and Management OR Economics, with a minimum overall average of 75% including at least 70% in each module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Successful completion of the Undergraduate Foundation Programme, with a minimum overall average of 77% including at least 75% in each module. Quantitative Methods must be taken as an elective module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Successful completion of the Global Growth Pathway Program (previously called International Foundation Program), with a minimum overall average of 90% in Advanced Mathematics, Calculus, Statistics and Economics (Micro and macro Economics), including at least 87% in Advanced Mathematics.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
St Andrews College, Cambridge
Successful completion of the Foundation Course in Business, with a minimum overall average of 75% including at least 70% in each module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
St Clare's, Oxford
Successful completion of the Business Foundation, with AAA. Maths for Business must be taken as a module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
The University of Sheffield International College
Successful completion of the International Foundation Year in Business and Management OR Economics, with a minimum overall average of 75% including at least 70% in each module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
Tsinghua University
Successful completion of the Global Academic Pathway, with a minimum overall average of 90% with at least 95% in Introduction to Algebra & Calculus, and at least 90% in the following modules; Elementary Business Studies, Introduction to Accounting & Finance and Fundamentals of Economics.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
University College London (UCL)
Successful completion of the Undergraduate Preparatory Certificate for the Humanities, with a minimum overall average of 75% including 70% in both subject modules. Mathematics must be taken as a subject module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
University of London
Please note: We only accept the University of London International Foundation Programme when studied at a centre in the UK.
Successful completion of the International Foundation Programme, with a minimum overall average of 75% including at least 70% in each module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
University of St Andrews
Successful completion of the International Foundation Programme for Management, Economics and Finance, with a minimum overall score of 15 out of 20 including 15 in Maths and no lower than 14 in all other modules.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.
University of Surrey International Study Centre
Successful completion of the International Foundation Year in Business, Economics, Law and Social Sciences, with a minimum overall average of 75% including at least 70% in each module.
You also need to meet our English language requirements.