BA (Hons) Graphic Design at London Metropolitan University

Programme overview

Our Graphic Design BA seeks to inspire creative confidence and innovation in the discipline through its approach to teaching, ensuring students gain real-world experience and develop a wide range of practical, creative and conceptual skills, explored thoroughly through thinking and making. Our students are encouraged to engage with the world around them through live briefs, socially and globally engaged studio projects and engagement with commercial practice.

Faculty: School of Art, Architecture and Design | Duration: 3 years full-time; 6 years part-time | Study mode: full-time / part-time | Intake: September 2027 | Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year 1: Critical and Contextual Studies 1 (Visual Communication), Message and Meaning, Skills and Principles, Work Ready Level 4. Year 2: Critical and Contextual Studies 2 (Visual Communication), Skills and Enquiry, Voice and Vision, Work Ready Level 5. Year 3: Critical and Contextual Studies 3: Dissertation (Visual Communication), Major Project: Graphic Design, Skills and Innovation, Work Ready Level 6.

Career pathways

The teaching team includes professional print, photography, web, animation and graphic design specialists alongside illustrators and artists, who together, create a stimulating teaching and learning environment that allows you to identify and succeed in your chosen career path. The course has produced a number of award winning students who have excelled in leading design competitions run by organisations such as Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and the Design Museum.

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Application information

Entry requirements

In addition to the University's standard entry requirements, you should have: a minimum of grades BBC in three A levels, one of which is from a relevant subject in the arts, humanities or social sciences (or a minimum of 112 UCAS points from an equivalent Level 3 qualification) English language GCSE at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent) a portfolio of work, which will need to be submitted as part of your application (you may also be asked to attend an interview) We also accept mature students with diverse backgrounds and experiences, and encourage applications from international students with equivalent qualifications. For details of what to include in your portfolio, please refer to our portfolio guidance for undergraduate courses. If you don't have traditional qualifications or can't meet the entry requirements for this undergraduate degree, you may still be able to gain entry by completing our Graphic Design (including foundation year) BA (Hons), or Art and Design (including foundation year) BA (Hons). Portfolios and interviews; Your portfolio should be selective but have enough work to show the range of your interests and talents. We're interested in seeing how you develop a project from beginning to end, not only finished work. Graphic designers work in a variety of media; please include the whole range of your creative work. If you can't bring some of your work to the portfolio interview, please take photographs and include them.

Domestic applicants: GBP 10,050 a year (2027/28). Full-time, September 2027 entry Source

International applicants: GBP 21,000 a year (2027/28). Full-time, September 2027 entry Source

Intake: September 2027

Duration: 3 years full-time; 6 years part-time

Apply through the official page: https://evision.londonmet.ac.uk/urd/sits.urd/run/SIW_IPP_LGN.login?process=siw_ipp_app&code1=W214-DF

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