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I need to know for when the time comes, what are the qualifications required to enter university and how long does it take to finish university? I plan to work on developing websites or anything to do with computers.

Right now I got these below

- GCSE English
- GCSE Business Studies
- GCSE Spanish
- GCSE ICT

Right now GCSE Maths is unknown, but most likely failed and need to do again.
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doesn't your school have some kind of advisor who actually knows this stuff?
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I just showed up on the first day - no qualification or anything
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TwoDoorPunkCab posted...

doesn't your school have some kind of advisor who actually knows this stuff?

I tried searching by going to the department of education, college and university but there is no one to give advisor or to tell me were to find someone who gives advise.

The only advise I got was from teachers, which says to get 5 GCSE and 2 or 3 A level.
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entrance requirements vary a lot between schools.

most degrees are 4-year programs
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Conflict posted...

It takes 4 years to get a bachelor's degree

The qualifications depend on a number of things. If you get an AA degree from community college in most cases you'd just need a 2.0 GPA. But if you're going for a 4-year out of high school it's gonna vary wildly. I hope you're doing extracurriculars too if that's the case

I think this guy is in Britain from the acronyms he uses. I think degrees there are 3 years.
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supermichael11 posted...

TwoDoorPunkCab posted...

doesn't your school have some kind of advisor who actually knows this stuff?

I tried searching by going to the department of education, college and university but there is no one to give advisor or to tell me were to find someone who gives advise.

The only advise I got was from teachers, which says to get 5 GCSE and 2 or 3 A level.

yeah, to get into uni you are going to either need a couple of a levels relevant to the course you want to do, or nvqs. i went down the nvq route because i got paid to do it, and i learn better with hands than with my eyes. so do whichever appeals to you.

the length of your course will mostly depend on the one you do. i did a foundation degree in computing & internet technology and that was a 3 year course

don't worry about failing any of your gcses too much either. schools put a lot of pressure on students to do well like they're the most important thing in your life, but really it's the school looking out for itself because their budgets are determined by student success rates. you can always do functional skills in english, maths, and ict whenever you want and they are equivalent to gcses. if you are doing an apprenticeship then your provider will even also cover the cost of doing those functional skills, including any resits you might need to do on exams
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