Product Design ,BSc (Hons)

    Product Design ,BSc (Hons)

    Duration3 year(s)
    Next IntakeSeptember 1, 2026

    Product Design ,BSc (Hons)

    About

    90% of students were satisfied overall with the course (National Student Survey, 2024)

    Overview

    Turn your imaginative ideas into real-world solutions through a balance of creative and technical skills. This course empowers you to take a technological approach to designing and developing functional, market-driven, and innovative products.

    Bring your ideas to life both digitally and physically with industry standard tools that will enable you to produce digital designs, images and animations as well as 3D prototypes in plastics, wood and metal.

    Current industry insight feeds into your learning and we will support you to become an industry-ready graduate who can deploy technologically creative design solutions across a range of industries.

    • Visiting lecturers support week-long projects or run weekly seminars, tutorials or lecture series. Previous visiting lecturers have come from leading companies including Mosley&, Empathic, Redline Studios, Seymourpowell, Out of the Bubble Design and Retail Lab.
    • Our students have secured placements with prestigious companies like Shark/Ninja, MoD, BAE systems, BMW, and Lewis Design Associates.
    • Strengthen your portfolio by entering prestigious competitions and showcasing your work. Our students have recently been recognised in the Design Innovation in Plastics (DIP) competition and have exhibited their projects at New Designers in London.
    • Many of our graduates thrive in a range of exciting roles for global brands like Aston Martin, Triumph, Dyson, and Magmatic, while others launch successful businesses.

    Requirements

    Entry Requirements

    Entry requirements

    Typical offer

    UCAS points:

    112

    A Level:

    BBC

    BTEC Extended Diploma:

    DMM

    Contextual Offer:

    DMU operates a generous contextual offer for students from underrepresented backgrounds in Higher Education.

    This is a minimum of one to two grade reduction from our typical offer and full details including eligibility criteria can be found at dmu.ac.uk/contextual

    T Levels:

    Merit

    Access to HE:

    Pass with 30 Level 3 credits at Merit

    International Baccalaureate (IB):

    26

    GCSEs:

    5 x GCSEs at grade 4/C or above including English and Maths

    English language requirements

    If English is not your first language, an IELTS score of 6.0 overall with 5.5 in each band (or equivalent) when you start the course is essential.

    English language tuition, delivered by our British Council-accredited Centre for English Language Learning, is available both before and throughout the course if you need it.

    Interview and portfolio

    Interview required: No

    Portfolio required: Yes

    To find out more what we're looking for in a portfolio, head to our portfolio advice page.

    Career

    Graduate careers

    We produce industry-ready graduates with expertise in function, user needs, aesthetics, technology, and design for manufacture. Our alumni thrive in roles such as product designers at various levels, industrial consultancy, project planning, furniture design, UX, interaction design, and research.

    Our graduates go on to work for global brands like Cambridge Consultants, BMW, JCB, Aston Martin, Triumph, Dyson, and Magmatic, while others launch successful businesses. With our industry-focused education, you’ll gain the skills and experience to join their ranks and shape your future in design.

    Fee Information

    Product Design ,BSc (Hons)

    De Montfort University

    De Montfort University

    United Kingdom

    United Kingdom, Leicester