MDes Design
University of Plymouth
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MDes - Master of Design

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Plymouth University

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MDes - Master of Design

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Plymouth University

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This programme aligns with contemporary trends stressing the role of designers for global prosperity, driving innovation and speculating with new, sustainable and material futures. The MDes allows you to engage with students from cognate areas such as MA Experience Design, and emerging technological innovation spaces influencing and impacting design practice, such as Creative Media, Architecture or Games Design.Key featuresPersonalise your masters. Choose an exit award to reflect your interest ...Read more

This programme aligns with contemporary trends stressing the role of designers for global prosperity, driving innovation and speculating with new, sustainable and material futures. The MDes allows you to engage with students from cognate areas such as MA Experience Design, and emerging technological innovation spaces influencing and impacting design practice, such as Creative Media, Architecture or Games Design.

Key features

  • Personalise your masters. Choose an exit award to reflect your interest in a specific area of expertise.
  • Explore modern specalisations. You will develop design projects aligned with contemporary and emerging specialisations in the design sector such as interiors, products and new materials.
  • Choose your format. You can choose the final format of your research project, options include standard text-based dissertations, a design business proposal or a body of exhibited creative work.
  • Live projects. Gain valuable experience working on live projects with partners across Plymouth and abroad, respondng to real contexts and ethical issues.
  • Collaborate. Engage with students from areas such as experience design, architecture, creative media and games design.
  • Learn by doing. Through a process of learning-by-doing, students develop the skills required to produce creative outputs and research-oriented studies, gain an understanding of the application of technical knowledge to creative situations, and explore how theory and action inform each other.

Careers with this subject

Our design projects and programme develops and creates adaptable graduates with a variety of industry skills, who are knowledgeable and professionally aligned to today's job opportunities. Our masters could lead to a career as a startup, a consultant or designer working in a design agency, urban and interior design, a service designer or bespoke maker, or many other roles in the industry. Your transferable creative and technology skills could also lead to employment as a designer, consultant or employee in other creative and tech industries. Career development, entrepreneurship and employability are integral to the course through partnerships with industry and public sector partners.

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70/101
CUG Subject Ranking
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28th
CUG Ranking
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65th
What students say
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Jen
08 Nov 24

The location of the campus is great, with only a short walk to the town, the waterfront and the train station - with great accessibility to get to the other surround parts of..Read more

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Georgia
22 Oct 24

Great night life..Read more

Modules

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Entry requirements

A 2:2 degree in Design (or similar design-related discipline such as Product Design, Digital Design, Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Interior Design, among others). Suitable references from previous academic institutions and/or employers. Applications must include a portfolio of work. Ideally, the portfolio of work includes evidence of work experience in the design sector.

Tuition fees

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£9,700 per year

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Students from Domestic

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£18,150 per year

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Students from EU

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£18,150 per year

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University of Plymouth
University of Plymouth , Plymouth

The University of Plymouth’s campus is centrally located within Britain’s Ocean City, perched on the south western coast of Devon...

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Drake Circus Plymouth PL4 8AA United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Plymouth  0.2 miles away

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