BA (Hons) International Craft (Top Up) at Manchester Metropolitan University

Programme overview

The BA (Hons) International Craft top-up will support you to think innovatively and respond to global trends in design. The course will expand your critical and conceptual thinking and encourage an understanding of wider global and creative professional design practice, whilst enabling you to develop an individual positioning for your professional design practice. Collaboration is at the heart of the course - you will undertake design practice modules with current final year students, work on projects with external industry and academic research partners, and exhibit your final projects as part of our annual Degree Shows events.

What you will study

The International Craft top-up course facilitates you to undertake projects with an external professional and international focus, run in collaboration with a range of academic and professional partners. The projects will offer high-quality opportunities to acquire external professional and global perspectives as well as further develop collaborative skills and design practice knowledge within a range of contexts. Year 1 core: Synthesis and Resolution, Unit X, Global Design: Cultures, Contexts and Methods.

Career pathways

Graduates go on to establish their own creative businesses as self-employed practitioners, or pursue careers such as: Product designers. Furniture designers.

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Application information

Entry requirements

BA (Hons) International Craft is a one-year top-up degree programme for applicants who have previously studied and successfully completed a relevant HND (or equivalent), or Level 5 of a relevant undergraduate degree. International students will be required to achieve an IELTS score of 6.0 with no component less than 5.5. English language qualification in line with the University’s entry requirements is required for students whose first language is not English. Further information for international students for application with non-UK qualifications can be found in the international section of our website. Applicants and returners from industry seeking recognition for prior learning will be assessed in line with the University’s RPL policy on their ability to meet the pertinent learning outcomes. Portfolio required.

Domestic applicants: GBP 10,050 a year (2027/28). Standard UK and Channel Islands full-time fee for 2027/28 as stated on the course page Source

Intake: September 2027

Duration: 1 year full-time

Apply through the official page: https://www.ucas.com

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