BA/BSc/MDes (Hons) Product Design

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Accreditations:

Institution of Engineering Designers (IED)

Duration and delivery: BA/BSc (Hons): 3 years fulltime, or 4 years full-time with a minimum 30-week placement MDes (Hons): 4 years fulltime, or 5 years full-time with a minimum 30-week placement

Entry requirements: 104 - 120 tariff points

Required subjects: None

If English is not your first language: IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component or equivalent

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These well-established and cutting-edge courses will give you the skills and guidance you need to develop successful commercial products. You’ll be encouraged to take a creative and innovative approach to problem solving, while also addressing the functional, social and economic needs of your design.

Extensive experience

Our teaching team has extensive experience in the product design industry. You’ll learn all the practical skills necessary to work in the sector as well as examining the theory behind product design, giving you a balanced view of the product development process to complement your practical experience.

Skills and guidance

Your design skills will be developed with the support of dedicated, highly qualified and experienced academics, technicians and demonstrators. The course is equipped with excellent facilities including a specialist CAD laboratory and our manufacturing design centre. You’ll learn how to manufacture physical models and prototypes, as well as produce industry standard computer models. In your final year, you will design your own original product and make a working prototype, which you will exhibit at our annual Festival of Design & Engineering.

The BSc (Hons) option focuses on the technological aspect of design, whereas the BA (Hons) option focuses on the aesthetic and contextual issues relating to product design.

Practical applications

The Integrated Master’s (MDes) option will give you a head start in your career, as not only will you graduate with a postgraduate degree, the course is also accredited as fulfilling the requirements for Chartered Technological Product Designer (CTPD).

All three courses are accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED), a testament to the practical applications of this degree and the fact that we produce graduates who are ready for the workplace.

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