Graphic Design BA (Hons) Farnham

In your final year, you’ll begin to develop your practice and you’ll produce your final major project, bringing together your career aspirations and practical work.

Professional Practice
You'll explore in greater depth the working world of the professional designer and creative practitioner; its primary aim is to help you prepare for graduation and to give you the opportunity to research the world of current graphic design practice in a range of related industries and areas and its associated career paths.

Contextual Research and Critical Reflection
This unit is for you to conceive, develop and construct an individually meaningful portfolio of contextual research that informs, augments and reflects upon practice towards the provision of structured narratives that critically engage with a range of contextual and theoretical frameworks. This will serve to support the positioning of your individual practice in relation to the present, historical, theoretical or critical concerns of your subject area.

Final Major Project
This will give you the opportunity to demonstrate the fluency of your design and communication skills, and to examine a subject or theme in depth through a self-determined and challenging assignment. Your final major project will benefit from your increased understanding of theoretical issues – how these inform and contextualise your practical work, your research skills and your creative/strategic design abilities.

This course offers the opportunity to study abroad for part of your second year. To find out more about studying abroad as part of your course please see the Study Abroad section:

• Study abroad information

Tuition fees
Full-time students:
The course fees per year for 2021 entry are:

• UK students - £9,250 
• EU students - £9,250 (see fee discount information)
• International students - £16,950 (standard fee)
• International students - £16,270 (full early payment fee)

Part-time students:
Part-time fees are calculated for every 10 credits of study you complete so the amount you pay for the year depends on the intensity of your study.

The course fees for 2022 entry will be available here shortly.

Additional course costs
In addition to the tuition fees please see the additional course costs for 2021 entry. The details for 2022 entry will be available here in due course.

Further information
Find out more about our course fees and any financial support you may be entitled to:

• UK course fees
• International & EU course fees
• General additional costs for students

These fees are correct for the stated academic year only. Costs may increase each year during a student’s period of continued registration on course in line with inflation (subject to any maximum regulated tuition fee limit). Any adjustment for continuing students will be at or below the RPI-X forecast rate.

Interaction with the industry is fundamental to our degree. We engage with industry through studio visits, work placements, 'live' projects and tasks either set by or co-authored by industry practitioners, as well as international competitions and collaborations. Students regularly win D&AD student awards, such as the Yellow Pencil for Best Packaging Design in 2011.

Our connections include:

• Barnbrook
• Boeing
• Channel 4
• Dalton Maag
• Design Bridge
• Design Museum
• The Designers Republic
• Fabrica
• Fitch
• FutureBrand
• Holmes & Marchant
• Landor Associates
• Naked
• MetaDesign
• Mother
• Preloaded
• SEA
• Sky (television)
• The Stool Pigeon
• VCCP.

Graduates from the course have achieved high-profile roles with many leading companies, including:

• Apple
• Bloom
• Bulletproof
• Cartlidge Levene
• Curious
• Cyprus University of Technology
• Design Studio
• Elmwood Singapore
• ForPeople
• GIRRBACH Sü.warendekor GmbH / Germany
• Harrods
• Hasbro
• Lego
• LessRain
• Lidl Stiftung
• Navy Blue
• Pearlfisher
• Pentagram
• Pocket App
• Preloaded
• Something Big
• Springetts
• Waitrose
• Yahoo! Hong Kong
• Zak Agency.

Our recent graduates have been appointed in areas such as branding, typography, editorial design, graphic design, freelance design, consultancy and brand strategy.

You may also like to consider further study at postgraduate level.

The standard entry requirements* for this course are:

One of the following:

• 112 new UCAS tariff points, see accepted qualifications
• Pass at Foundation Diploma in Art & Design (Level 3 or 4)
• Distinction, Merit, Merit at BTEC Extended Diploma / BTEC National Extended Diploma
• Merit at UAL Extended Diploma
• 112 new UCAS tariff points from an accredited Access to Higher Education Diploma in appropriate subject
• 27-30 total points in the International Baccalaureate Diploma with at least 15 IB points at Higher level, see more information about IB entry requirements.

And four GCSE passes at grade A*-C and/or grade 4-9 including English (or Functional Skills English/Key Skills Communication Level 2).

Other relevant and equivalent Level 3 UK and international qualifications are considered on an individual basis, and we encourage students from diverse educational backgrounds to apply.

*We occasionally make offers which are lower than the standard entry criteria, to students who have faced difficulties that have affected their performance and who were expected to achieve higher results. We consider the strength of our applicants’ portfolios, as well as their grades -  in these cases, a strong portfolio is especially important.

To view the equivalent entry requirements for your country please select it in the list below.

• Non-UK equivalent qualifications
• English language requirements

For this course, you’ll be required to submit an online portfolio via your UCA Applicant Portal. Ideally, this should include sketchbooks, design development journals, drawings and other work demonstrative of media and methods, completed graphic design projects, links to blogs, online design journals and creative activity. Further information on how to compile and upload your portfolio will be provided once you have applied. If you receive an offer, you’ll be invited to attend an Offer Holder Webinar where you can meet the course team and learn more about the course.

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