- Providing high quality maritime training to industry for over 130 years
- Student success - FNC students have won the MCA Officer Trainee of the Year Award eleven times in 18 years - an unrivalled achievement
- Industry standard, dedicated campus for Maritime Studies - all on one site
- Commendations from The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)
- Degrees awarded by Lancaster University – ranked in the UK’s top ten institutions*
- One of just seven general further education colleges to be granted Foundation Degree Awarding powers in March 2019
- Full degree awarding powers were granted to B&FC in 2022
- Founder and continuing member of the Women in Maritime Charter
- Highly qualified, expert tutors with lots of industry experience
- Higher than the national average results in exams**
- An exceptionally high graduate to employment rate
- Embedded professional development, including an exciting programme of adventure-based training
- A richly diverse student body
- Lots of individual support
- Excellent purpose-built facilities, including a state of the art marine engineering centre
- New outdoor multi use games area, full Sky TV package, table tennis, pool table, dart board, table football
- On site halls of residence - no commuting
- Plenty of reasonably priced local accommodation
- On site refectory and Starbucks Coffee
- Free on campus parking
* The Complete University Guide League Tables 2024
** e.g. Officer of the Watch 2022 and Chief Mates March 2023
