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This degree is the only Product Design BSc (Hons) in the UK to offer 3 separate industrial work placements. You will put what you have learnt in lectures in to practice and gain hands-on experience in bringing innovative products to market, managing commercial projects professionally and helping companies to be more effective, competitive, and relevant in the world today.
If you’re interested in making your imagination a reality this is the course for you. You will study a wide range of design sectors and be immersed in the design and manufacture of products. You’ll study human-centred design and design thinking methodologies. On this course you'll consider what is product design? Is it...
Making people’s lives better?
Improving the way things work?
How we organise things?
Improving the ways we communicate?
How we think strategically?
Using imagination to create real things?
Making change to communities?
Imagining and designing the future?
Designing experiences and products that people love?
Improving and innovating products and services?
Starting creative businesses?
Making difficult decisions?
Working with others for the greater good?
Making the world a better place?
If you said yes to one or more of these, you are a future product designer! Product Design is about making your imagination a reality. Everything we experience in our built environment has been created by people for people. Designers come from different backgrounds, some have creative skills, some have technical skills, but all are visionaries who are dedicated to improving the world around them.
Are you ready to become a changemaker, innovator and leader?
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This is an English-medium course. The UCAS code for the Welsh-medium course is different.
Why choose Bangor University for this course?
- No.1 in the UK for Product Design (The Guardian University Guide 2025).
- Only UK Product Design course with three separate industrial work placements.
- Develop skills enabling you to bring innovative products to market, making life better, easier and more productive for consumers and companies.
- Learn to manage commercial projects professionally, allowing companies to be more effective, competitive and relevant in the world today.
Watch - What will you study in your first year?
[00:04] The main focus in year one is to develop students' creativity, the creative process, and to develop their technical skills and manufacturing skills.
[00:13] So we will do that through a number of different ways, really.
[00:15] So they will be taught sessions where you as a student will be taught how to use particular softwares for SolidWorks,
[00:22] for CAD, the Adobe Creative Cloud. We will also apply the knowledge through practical creative projects.
[00:29] At the start of year one those projects will be fairly short,
[00:32] so we get a quick turnaround and that will be building up into longer projects towards the end of the year.
[00:37] For the first semester we have like dedicated lecturers towards just going around and learning
[00:42] the machines and everything... Learning how to use them safely and most efficiently and everything.
[00:51] What we've noticed over the last few years is the students like to work through some of the technical elements at their own pace.
[00:58] So on a weekly basis, our students receive a tutorial, a guide in a way, for specific skills within those specific softwares.
[01:06] And on the timetable there will be a drop-in session.
[01:09]
So any student that struggles with a particular element can come to that session and we are there to give you support.
[01:16] Usually just over half of the class would be there in each drop-in session to get that extra support.
[01:21] You can just walk into this building and someone's there to help you that there's always someone around.
[01:26] But it's very easy to get that full support from lecturers.
[01:29] So if you have a problem, you can come in to the workshop and talk to all of them because one of them will be definitely around at all times.
[01:35] We did metal working... A lot of us had never done metal-working before, but working with a company where we had to do that,
[01:41] it was good because then you still, you're learning a new technique, but you're still getting like a nice end product at the end of it.
[01:49] Like it still quite, quite a professional standard for a year-one thing.
[01:55] So there's two key places that you can find information.
[01:59] Go to the Bangor University website and you can find all the information required about the course there.
[02:03] Secondly, I suggest that you go and check us out on Instagram.
[02:07] So search for @product design bangor. That gives you a maybe more of a realistic view of what happens here on a daily basis.
Additional Course Options
This course is available with a Placement Year option where you will study for 1 additional year. The Placement Year is undertaken at the end of the second year and students are away for the whole of the academic year.
The Placement Year provides you with a fantastic opportunity to broaden your horizons and develop valuable skills and contacts through working with a self-sourced organisation relevant to your degree subject. The minimum period in placement (at one or more locations) is seven calendar months; more usually you would spend 10-12 months with a placement provider. You would normally start sometime in the period June to September of your second year and finish between June and September the following year. Placements can be UK-based or overseas and you will work with staff to plan and finalise the placement arrangements.
You will be expected to find and arrange a suitable placement to complement your degree and will be fully supported throughout by a dedicated member of staff at your academic School and the University’s Careers and Employability Services.
You will have the opportunity to fully consider this option when you have started your course at Bangor and can make an application for a transfer onto this pathway at the appropriate time. Read more about the work experience opportunities that may be available to you or, if you have any questions, please get in touch.
This course is available with an International Experience Year option where you will study or work abroad for 1 additional year. You will have ‘with International Experience’ added to your degree title on graduating.
Studying abroad is a great opportunity to see a different way of life, learn about new cultures and broaden your horizons. With international experience of this kind, you’ll really improve your career prospects. There are a wide variety of destinations and partner universities to choose from. If you plan to study in a country where English is not spoken natively, there may be language courses available for you at Bangor and in your host university to improve your language skills.
You will have the opportunity to fully consider this option at any time during your degree at Bangor and make your application. If you have any questions in the meantime, please get in touch.
Read more about the International Experience Year programme and see the studying or working abroad options on the Student Exchanges section of our website.