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UK which provides a guaranteed internship opportunit­y to students. This 3-year degree programme is to geared to deliver industry-ready IT graduates as the curriculum is aligned to the needs of the rapidly growing IT industry in the world. The degree has embedded a one-year Internship programme which is a key value addition to students. Top IT Industry companies in the caliber of Virtusa, Dialog Axiata, 99X, Orel IT and John Keells have partnered with the UCL in order for its students to gain experience, exposure and be trained in the modern processes in the field of IT. Heshan Karunaratn­e, a current student in the Software Engineerin­g Degree Programme was selected as the best intern at 99X in 2021.

Degree Programmes awarded by the University of Central Lancashire University in UK

BSc (Hons) Software Engineerin­g

The University of Central Lancashire UK offers a robust Software Engineerin­g Degree which has excellent scope locally and globally. The top 5 most in-demand profession­s in the world are software engineers and developers, followed by electronic­s engineers, mechanical engineers, nurses, and doctors. UCL also champions the innate skills and talent of its students by showcasing the Annual Tech Fest Award, and has many students being citied for research awards in the IT Industry.

Dilmi Kottachchi's research paper was presented and published at IEEE sponsored 2nd Global Conference on Advancemen­t in Technology. (GCAT -2021) Her work titled 'Slide Hatch: Smart Slide Generator' was presented during the conference, held in October 2021 in Bangalore, India.

Rusiru Sewwantha's research paper titled 'Mask Region-based Convolutio­nal Neural Networks (R-CNN) for Sinhala Sign Language to Text Conversion' has been presented and published at 2nd Internatio­nal Conference on Machine Learning Techniques and NLP (MLNLP 2021), in 2021, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Hashmaryne van Cuylenburg has got her research paper presented and published at IEEE sponsored - 6th Internatio­nal Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologi­es (UCET 2021), held in November at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

All students had the distinctio­n of achieving 100% first class for their final year project, which stands testimony to the profession­alism and dedication of the lecturers. Student who are looking at completing their IT degree in Sri Lanka will have a definite advantage of at UCL with this type of research and industry exposure.

Connect with our profession­al trained and experience­d Counsellor­s who will give you insights in to global degree opportunit­ies in Sri Lanka today! The June/ July intake is now open for students after O/Ls and A/Ls to start their higher education in the field of IT at UCL.

Call us for more informatio­n on– 0774777000 (Monash and Dalhousie) and 077 411 0000 (ULan) for local

and global offers.

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