Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Graphic Design Nottingham Trent University - City Campus, UK

Learn and develop as an ambitious graphic designer on this studio-based degree. You'll work alongside like-minded creatives, exploring all aspects of visual communication in a vibrant studio environment.

We’ll encourage you to think creatively during your time at NTU, gaining professional and technical skills that reflect current and future industry practice.

By the end of your degree, you’ll have a professional portfolio tailored to your own career aspirations. Graduates secure roles in fields such as art direction, advertising, branding and identity, design for screen and interactive design, editorial design, illustration, motion graphics and publishing.

Key features

• You’ll have the opportunity to complete a work experience placement of up to a year in length. Dependent on the duration of your placement, you could gain an additional Diploma or Certificate in Professional Practice.
• Study a broad range of disciplines including branding, editorial design, graphic design, illustration, interactive design, information design, motion graphics and typography.
• Learn in a creative studio environment, using industry-standard equipment and software. View our School of Art & Design Facilities Hub here.
• Work on live briefs with companies like Brand Opus, JKR, Elmwood and Vault 49.
• Develop your professional skills through self-initiated work experience placements, industry competitions, collaborations with organisations and guest lectures.
• Go on optional study visits to cities like New York and Berlin.
• Opportunity to apply for a European or international exchange to one of our partner institutions, such as RMIT in Australia.
• During your time here, you will be given the opportunity to showcase your work to members of the creative industries. You can view our graduating students’ showcase here.
• You’ll have the opportunity to be selected to exhibit at portfolio events, such as New Designers and D&AD New Blood in London.
• Develop a professional portfolio tailored to your own career aspirations.
• Our graphic design degree has an excellent reputation for producing industry-ready, interdisciplinary graduates.
• Gain a professionally accredited degree – this course is accredited by the Chartered Society of Designers (CSD).