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BA Hons Graphic Design and Illustration
at Teesside University

Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Tuition Fee £ 13,000
Country Rank#90
Duration36 Months
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Program Overview

BA Hons Graphic Design and Illustration is offered by Teesside University UK. The course duration is 36 months.

The course is a combination of graphic design and illustration, offering you a broad and dynamic experience. Build a professional and innovative portfolio as a graphic designer and illustrator with skills across advertising, branding, typography, editorial and book design, interactive media, motion graphics and digital content. Learn to develop your design research skills and ideas-led solutions, working with the foremost analogue and digital industry facilities while being taught by award-winning and research-active practising artists and designers.

What’s more, you can complete an optional work placement year as part of this degree course at no extra cost.

What you learn

While studying this graphic design and illustration degree at Teesside University, you work to live briefs on real projects and enter competitions in this industry-focused programme to prepare you for a range of professional careers in the design field and across the creative industries, including artistic and technical roles in media agencies and publishers. From becoming a freelance designer or illustrator to working for an international company, your learning adventure unites the independent and commercial, specialisms and teamwork, deadlines and networking, traditional and digital design skills.

Course Content
Course structure

Year 1 core modules

Drawing and Printmaking

Graphic Processes

Graphic Projects

MIMA History of Art, Design & Architecture

Sequential Design and Illustration

Type and Image

Year 2 core modules

Advanced Graphic Projects

Career Context

Format and Application

Global Future Contexts

Interaction and Environment

Storytelling

Optional work placement year

Work placement

Final-year core modules

Clients and Competitions

Major Research Project: Graphic Design

Professional Communication

Professional Practice
Entry Requirement
Entry requirements

Year 1 entry
96-112 points, including a creative subject, from any combination of recognised Level 3 qualifications. Consideration is also given to students without formal qualifications but with evidence of practical design and illustration experience at an appropriate level. Applicants are invited to share a portfolio where applicable to show creative skills in graphic design and illustration.

Applicants are invited join us on campus for an applicant day, enabling you to see our graphic design and illustration facilities, meet staff and students and learn more about studying at Teesside University.

Non-EU international students who need a student visa to study in the UK should check our web pages on UKVI-compliant English language requirements. The University also provides pre-sessional English language courses to help you meet the English language requirements.

Helping you meet the entry requirements
We may be able to help you meet the requirements for admission by offering you the opportunity to study one or more Summer University modules, some of which can be studied by distance learning.

Alternative degree with integrated foundation year
If you are unable to achieve the minimum admission requirements for Year 1 entry you could, subject to eligibility, join one of our degree courses with an integrated foundation year.

Direct entry to later years
If you have previously studied at higher education level (for example, a foundation degree, HNC, HND or one or more years at degree level at another institution) you may request direct entry to Year 2 or year 3 of this degree.

Mature applicants
We welcome applications from mature students (aged over 21) who can demonstrate, through portfolio/written work and relevant experience, that they have developed cognitive and technical skills through their life experiences.
Fees & Scholarships
Entry to 2022/23 academic year

Fee for UK applicants
£9,250 a year

Fee for international applicants
£14,000 a year
Career Prospect
Career opportunities

To support professional practice experience, you get involved with competitions from professional bodies such as Design and Art Direction (D&AD), You Can Now, Royal Society of Arts and International Society of Typographic Designers. You also have the opportunity to exhibit work externally.

D&AD connects to a community of creative professionals, providing essential industry and educational insight. Since 1962, D&AD has been inspiring a community of creative thinkers by celebrating and stimulating the finest in design and advertising. The D&AD Professional Awards are recognised globally as the ultimate creative accolade, entered and attended by the best from around the world.

Our graduates have excellent and varied career opportunities and go on to work in design consultancies, publishing houses, advertising and new media studios along with freelance opportunities and commissioned arts projects. There is also the opportunity for postgraduate study.

Examples of destinations include Barker Advertising in New York, Caterpillar Books, Elmwood Design, Gardner Richardson, Great Fridays, JWT, KPMG, McCann Erickson, Pearl Fisher, Penguin Books, Radley Yeldar and Publicis Sapient.

Cost Of Studying At Teesside University

Interest rates as low as 8.9% ^*

250K+

Students Assisted

800Cr+

Loan Amount Disbursed

5000+

Loans Sanctioned

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BA Hons Graphic Design and Illustration at Teesside University