BA (Hons) Graphic Design
Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Newcastle City Campus

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SEP-25

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3 Years

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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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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, youll be an independent thinker who understands how theory influences your work. Youll have a solid grasp of modern graphic design, responsible practices, creative processes, and methods.Youll build confidence and skills in various areas of graphic design, including branding, sustainable packaging, typography, editorial and digital design, ...Read more

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

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WUSCA ranking:
WUSCA student ranking
These are the 2024 rankings, based on ratings given by past and current students.
8/101
CUG Subject Ranking
CUG Subject Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
16th
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
34th
Design Studies
Drop-out rate
Drop-out rate
The percentage of students who didn't finish the course.
Calculated by 100% - (% of students continuing course + % of students completed course)
100 - 95 = 5% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
5%
Employment rate
Employment rate
The percentage of students in full-time work 6 months after finishing their course.
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
89%
Average salary
Average salary
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
Design Studies graduate salary at this uni
£18,000
UK Design Studies graduate salary
£18,000
What students say
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Popular A-level subjects

Design Studies

Top 5 A-levels taken by students who study this subject at uni.

Art & Design
49%
Mathematics
20%
Fashion & Textiles
17%
English Literature
15%
3D Design
15%
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£9,535 per year

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£19,350 per year

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Students from EU

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£19,350 per year

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Northumbria University, Newcastle
Northumbria University, Newcastle , Newcastle upon Tyne

Northumbria University offers its students a unique opportunity to develop vocational knowledge and skills across a wide range of...

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Northumbria University, Newcastle
Sutherland Building, Northumberland Road Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Newcastle Central  0.4 miles away
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