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Qualification
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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Location
Newcastle City Campus
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
22-SEP-25
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Duration
3 Years
Course summary
The BA (Hons) Graphic Design course is all about encouraging your creativity and helping you think critically about your ideas. By the time you graduate, you'll be an independent thinker who understands how theory influences your work. You'll have a solid grasp of modern graphic design, responsible practices, creative processes, and methods.
You'll build confidence and skills in various areas of graphic design, including branding, sustainable packaging, typography, editorial and digital design, copywriting, imagery, print, experiential design, material culture, and physical production. Our collaborative learning spaces and critique sessions allow students and staff to tackle real-world design challenges together.
Our curriculum keeps you up-to-date with the expanding and evolving creative industry. For example, as technology evolves, conceptual thinking and visual problem-solving remain as key skills. Throughout the course we will help you integrate these skills into your practice and prepare you for the growing design industry.
Careers & Employability
Whatever area of graphic design you decide to pursue upon graduation, youll have the core transferable skills needed to operate successfully in the creative industries.
Our course produces conceptual, confident, practitioners who can apply their creative knowledge and skills to a variety of professional employment opportunities or post-graduate education. Skills including critical reflection and analysis, collaborating with others, creative thinking and the ability to visually and conceptually solve problems. Our graduates are consistently employed across a wide range of design positions in the graphic design industry.
Mode of Study
3 years Full Time or 4 years with a placement (sandwich)/study abroad
Application deadline
30/06/2025
Tuition fees
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Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information

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University League Table
34th
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Campus address
Northumbria University, Northumberland Building, Northumberland Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, NE1 8ST, England
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Subject ranking
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Entry standards
/ Max 239148 62%24th
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10075.0 75%10th
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.21 80%29th
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