Product Design BA (Hons)

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Our BA (Hons) Product Design course is your launchpad into the world of creative innovation – where your ideas can become real products that shape how people live, work, and play.

From day one, you’ll be designing and making: sketching bold ideas, solving real-world problems, building prototypes, and bringing your concepts to life through 3D modelling and cutting-edge CAD software. Whether you’re passionate about designing sustainable consumer goods, modular furniture, intelligent wearables, or the next big smartphone app, this course gives you the creative freedom and technical skills to make it happen.

Blending creativity, technology, and innovation, it’s an exciting journey that equips you to design for the future – and for real impact.

Entry Requirements

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• We welcome applications from students with a mix of A levels and BTEC/Cambridge Technical qualifications.

  Applicants are interviewed and are requested to provide a portfolio of their own work. International students may submit their portfolio electronically. Students with a relevant HND or Foundation Degree with a suitable profile of achievement may be admitted onto Stage Two or Three of the BA Product Design programme.

  If you would like to make an application as a Home or EU student, please visit our How to Apply page.

  If you are an International student and would like more information on how to make an application, please visit our How to Apply page.

• Admission to this foundation programme is normally:

  • DEE at A-Level or,
  • MPP at BTEC/Cambridge Technical or
  • Pass (D or E) at T Level

  We welcome applications from students with a mix of A levels and BTEC/Cambridge Technical qualifications.

  However, we would also like to hear from you if you have professional or industry experience instead, a range of other qualifications or self-developed subject knowledge that relates to the programme you wish to study.

• Once your Product Design degree application has been reviewed, you may be invited to attend an portfolio review with us.

  Prior to your portfolio review you will be asked to send in a digital portfolio of some of your work. Your portfolio can be up to 12 pages and should include 3-5 pieces of your design work. We would like to see a range of 2D and 3D work, for example, ideation and sketching, concept renderings and visualisations, sketch-modelling and prototyping, 2D and 3D CAD drawings, images of finished design or artwork.

  Not all your examples need to be completed pieces so you can include some works in progress – we’re looking to see your ideas and experimentation, as well as some finished work.

  Your portfolio review will be with a member of the programme team and you’ll go over your portfolio with them. They’ll ask you some questions around your work and your interest in the course. This is also a great opportunity for you to ask them any questions you may have about the course.

  We hold our Product Design chat online and it will take around 30 minutes.

• All International and EU students applying for a course with us must meet the following minimum English language requirements:

  • IELTS 6.0 (or equivalent) with a minimum of 5.5 in all bands
    for study at undergraduate level.

  For information regarding English language requirements at the University, please see our IELTS page.