
Graphic Design BA Honours
London, United Kingdom
DURATION
3 up to 4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
18 Aug 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 15,400 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* international | UK: £9,535
Introduction
The Graphic Design BA aims to provide an intellectual and creative space for you to explore and develop a wide range of skills and understanding of the discipline of graphic design.
This is applied through a variety of current and emerging technologies and processes for visual communication. The evolving and fluid forms of published and experiential exchanges include interactions with audiences and users across digital, physical, and virtual environments.
The breadth and range of the facilities and processes available support creative learning that is interdisciplinary, collaborative and professional – embracing technologies and practices found in current industry work environments.
This course offers a flexible, interdisciplinary, and multi-faceted approach to the study of contemporary graphic design practice across a broad range of contexts and projects that are industry-facing as well as experimental, discipline-critical and research-led. It will prepare you with the highest level of practical and employable skills, knowledge and visual understanding required to both work and lead in this sector of the creative industry today.
Study and learning on the course are encouraging, inclusive and supportive, fostering your aptitudes and individual expression in the work you produce while offering wide and in-depth visual inquiry and experimentation.
Throughout the course, there is a wide range of optional choice modules that support individualised creative agility, enabling you to be flexible and resilient while also making you industry ready to adapt your practice rapidly within evolving employments, periods of change, new and emerging communication and societal driven exchanges and technologies.
The course fosters the development of employability skills and knowledge as well as work-based learning opportunities from your first year through to the final stages of the course. Two options reinforce and augment this ethos: either a year-long professional placement or internship nationally or a year overseas in either an academic or work environment.
The course has a strong professional focus and connections in conjunction with the University’s award-winning Westminster Enterprise Network, supporting all aspects of employability, from training, professional practice, self-promotion, work experience, interviewing and job opportunities.
You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside colleagues in generous studio spaces with excellent facilities for a range of digital technologies with access to facilities for working in more traditional media and processes. Key aspects of learning include UX (User eXperience design), visual effects, prototyping, AR (Augmented Reality), MR (Mixed Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality), branding and digital arts. You will also have access to analogue-making processes through the facility centres in printmaking, photography, three-dimensional fabrication and digital printing.
Within your learning, you will be able to develop your awareness and understanding of the social contexts and environmental responsibilities of design so that you can identify communication strategies that will enrich society and people's lives by enabling them to be better informed about the world in which we all live in and share.
You'll learn to engage audiences through imaginative and creative design solutions that may challenge, persuade, shock, provoke, excite and entertain but are always informative. You'll also develop the transferable and cognitive skills necessary for lifelong personal and professional development.
Alumni and specialists from the industry contribute to the teaching programme alongside our dedicated course team of experienced professional creatives and researchers.
Based at the generous green-field site of Harrow campus, a recognised creative hothouse for Arts and Media, you’ll be joining a diverse and inclusive community of staff and students, studying subjects that include fashion, film, fine art, film, photography, music, animation, journalism and advertising. The scale and scope of Westminster mean you’ll also have access to all central London campuses in Regent Street, Marylebone and Cavendish Campuses.
Top reasons to study with us
- Westminster is ranked top 10 among UK institutions for Communication and Media Studies in the QS World University Rankings 2021
- You’ll have the opportunity to work in collaboration with colleagues across the university, including students in arts, architecture, media, humanities, science and games design
- Support and teaching from a professional and experienced course teaching team with research in the design field
- Flexibility and determination of your own learning journey through the course with a wide range of module choices to facilitate your individual creativity
- Excellent and generous studios and facilities for study and practice
- The acquisition of a high level of skills and understanding in emerging and contemporary graphic design practice and study
- Opportunities for study abroad and work experience as an additional year
Why study this course?
- Multidisciplinary, creative campus
You’ll work alongside students from film, photography, music, and fashion at our Harrow Campus. - Fantastic location
With central London only a 20-minute tube ride away, you’ll enjoy the benefits of studying in a major creative capital. - A supportive environment
We provide our students with the right environment, support and guidance throughout their studies to keep them motivated.
Career Opportunities
With a growing global network of 3,000 employers, our Careers and Employability Service is here to support you to achieve your full potential.
- Graduates in work or further study
100% of our Graphic Design BA graduates are in work and/or further study 15 months after finishing their course.
(Source: Discover Uni - site accessed in November 2020) - One-to-one advice
Our Careers and Employability Service can provide you with industry mentoring, one-to-one guidance, mock interviews, employer presentations and workshops. - Employers around the world
The University’s Careers and Employability Service has built up a network of over 3,000 employers around the world, helping all our students explore and connect with exciting opportunities and careers.
Job areas
This course will prepare you for job areas such as:
- Creative direction
- Design for interaction
- Editorial design
- Graphic design
- Information design
Graduate employers
Graduates from this course have found employment at organisations including:
- Apple
- BBC
- DixonBaxi
- FutureBrand
- The British Museum
- Transport for London
Admissions
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Scholarships and Funding
The University is dedicated to supporting ambitious and outstanding students and we offer a variety of scholarships to eligible students.