BA (Hons) Product Design at Bath Spa University

Programme overview

Want a career in design? If you're motivated by making, then this innovative Product Design degree is for you. Taught by industry professionals, the course enables you to build a foundation of technical and practical design skills and explore manufacturing processes, from traditional techniques to computer-aided design (CAD) and digital fabrication.

Faculty: School of Design | Duration: Three years full-time, or four years full-time with professional placement year. Part-time available. | Study mode: full-time; part-time; optional professional placement year (sandwich) | Location: Bath, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

You’ll develop a foundation of core design skills from sketching and model-making to digital and analogue making processes, material knowledge and experimentation. You’ll acquire skills in design communication, visualisation, research and prototyping, and develop your understanding of small to large-scale production. You’ll get access to all the technical workshops, enabling you to progress confidently into year two. Year one modules include Introduction to Design Practices, Communications – sketching and drawing in 3 dimensions, Digital Making and CAD, Production in Furniture and Product Design, Wicked Problems: The Complexity of Critical Design Thinking, Communicating and Externalising.

Career pathways

Many of our graduates have worked for a range of national and global design and manufacturing companies, contemporary designers and design marketing agencies, such as: - Disney - Modus - Matter - Unto This Last - Dyson - KWMC-The Factory - Benchmark - Herman Miller Others have freelanced, put their own designs into production, and exhibited internationally.

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Application information

Entry requirements

A Level – grades BBB-BCC. No specific subject required.; BTEC – Extended Diploma grades from Distinction Distinction Merit (DDM) to Distinction Merit Merit (DMM). No specific subject required.; T Levels – grade Merit. No specific subject required.; International Baccalaureate – a minimum of 32 points. No specific subject required.; Access to HE courses – Access to HE Diploma or Access to HE Certificate (60 credits, 45 of which must be Level 3, at Merit or higher). No specific subject required.; English Language Requirements for International and EU Applicants IELTS 6.0 - for visa nationals, with a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 in each element. Applicants for this course will be asked to provide an electronic portfolio of their work. Full details of what to include will be provided upon initial assessment of the application.

Domestic applicants: GBP 10,050 a year (2027/28). Annual tuition fee, UK full time Source

International applicants: GBP 20,290 a year (2027/28). Annual tuition fee, International full time Source

Duration: Three years full-time, or four years full-time with professional placement year. Part-time available

Apply through the official page: https://apphub.bathspa.ac.uk/Connectors/Paperless/BAFPD_D

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