Whatever you study at Forward, engineering, law, agriculture, media, you complete the same compulsory cross-cutting core. It is graded, assessed and carried into your final year.
Most universities let their strongest general capabilities sit inside one or two departments. Forward does the opposite: the capabilities that decide whether a graduate is useful in 2050 are pulled out of the disciplines and made compulsory across all of them. A bioengineer and a policy graduate leave here with the same five foundations, expressed through different work.
Every graduate can direct, evaluate and correct machine intelligence in their own discipline, including knowing when not to use it.
Numeracy that survives contact with real data, estimation, statistics, modelling and the honest reporting of uncertainty.
Technical work situated in the political, economic and historical realities it will actually be deployed into.
The capabilities that grow more valuable as automation spreads: judgement, persuasion, negotiation, and building trust with people.
Every graduate leaves able to cost, sell and run something, whether that is a company, a unit, a lab or a public programme.
Year 1
Core foundations taught alongside your discipline's fundamentals.
Years 2-3
Core applied inside your discipline and inside your paid co-op placement.
Year 4
Enterprise strand assessed through your capstone and its economics.
