Product Design BA (Hons)
Nottingham Trent University
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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City Campus

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Sandwich

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SEP-25

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4 Years

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

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SEP-25

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4 Years

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Product designers create the products, services and experiences that we use in our daily life. If you are creative and care about shaping our future relationships with artefacts and technology, then product design offers you a doorway to an exciting, ever evolving discipline that shapes people’s lives for the better.Our teachers don’t just teach. They’re collaborators, constantly encouraging you to develop your own unique design style. We’ll plug you into the industry from day one; you’ll be ...Read more

Product designers create the products, services and experiences that we use in our daily life. If you are creative and care about shaping our future relationships with artefacts and technology, then product design offers you a doorway to an exciting, ever evolving discipline that shapes people’s lives for the better.Our teachers don’t just teach. They’re collaborators, constantly encouraging you to develop your own unique design style. We’ll plug you into the industry from day one; you’ll be pushing live briefs to the edge of your imagination as you explore the needs of users, markets, and manufacturers. You’ll create with your mind, your hands, and cutting-edge software.You’ll learn how designers guide projects as visionaries and leaders, and as the glue between specialists. You’ll be part of a studio culture that builds confidence through community, developing your work from preliminary sketches to fully functioning prototypes. Through placements, competitions and exhibitions, you’ll have the chance to meet and impress some of the biggest names in the game.We’ve built this course in consultation with product design’s most influential employers. We know what they want, and that’s what we teach: with hard work and creative bravery, you could be following our global network of alumni to the likes of Adidas, Puma, Sony, Speedo, the BBC, Habitat, MADE.COM, and Matter.


Key Features

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Professional Accreditation

| Our course is accredited by the Chartered Society of Designers (CSD), recognising the quality and relevance of our course content. It also means you can become a student member of the CSD for free whilst studying.-


Live Projects

| You’ll work on live project briefs with real industry clients. We’ve already welcomed the likes of Nestlé, PepsiCo, W'innovate, Herman Miller and Speedo onto the course, and that list of big-time industry partners is growing all the time.-


Exhibitions and Shows

| Exhibit and get yourself noticed! Events like New Designers and NTU’s annual Degree Show are annual fixtures in the product design calendar, and our grads have won big at external competitions like the Starpack Awards and Student Design Innovation Awards.


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Top 2 Ranking

| NTU is 2nd for number of UG students studying Design studies (HESA 2021/22).-


Top 2 Ranking

| NTU is the 2nd most sustainable university in the world (UI GreenMetric World University Rankings 2023).-


Student Satisfaction

| 94% of Product Design Sandwich students are positive about the teaching on their course (NSS 2023).

Key stats

WUSCA ranking:
WUSCA student ranking
These are the 2024 rankings, based on ratings given by past and current students.
16/101
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
45th
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 - 96 = 4% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
4%
Employment rate
Employment rate
The percentage of students in full-time work 6 months after finishing their course.
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
95%
Average salary
Average salary
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
Design Studies graduate salary at this uni
£22,000
UK Design Studies graduate salary
£19,000
What students say
I
Ibrahim
30 Jan 25

The university is a welcoming and safe place to be enabling growth giving you a proper chance to flourish. The range of facilities are great like fast internet, 24 hour laptop..Read more

R
rishikesh
27 Jan 25

Nottingham Trent University is a great place to study! The campus is super modern with all the facilities you need for both work and play, from study spaces to chill-out..Read more

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We will consider T Levels for entry to this course, either as stand-alone qualifications or in conjunction with other Level 3 qualifications, in accordance with the specified course tariff points.

Popular A-level subjects

Design Studies

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

Art & Design
37%
Fashion & Textiles
20%
Business Studies
18%
Photography
15%
Psychology
14%
HESA

Latest reviews

Latest Product Design reviews

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I
Ibrahim
30 Jan 25
Product Design (with Foundation Year) FT BA (Hons)
The university is a welcoming and safe place to be enabling growth giving you a proper chance to flourish. The range of facilities are great like fast internet, 24 hour laptop...
Read more
R
rishikesh
27 Jan 25
Product Design BA (Hons)
Nottingham Trent University is a great place to study! The campus is super modern with all the facilities you need for both work and play, from study spaces to chill-out...
Read more
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Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University , Nottingham

Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is one of the most popular universities in the UK, with a worldwide reputation for excellence....

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Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University 50 Shakespeare Street Nottingham Nottinghamshire NG1 4FQ United Kingdom
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