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University of Westminster Graphic Design BA Honours
University of Westminster

Graphic Design BA Honours

London, United Kingdom

3 up to 4 Years

English

Full time

18 Aug 2025

Sep 2025

GBP 15,400 / per year *

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.
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