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

• 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. 
• 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’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.
• We are proud to be in the top ten in England and Wales for Art and Design (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020).
• We're ranked 12th best University for Art and Design in the UK. (The Complete University Guide 2021).
• 93% of BA (Hons) Graphic Design students would recommend studying at NTU. (National Student Survey 2020).
• NTU is ranked in the top 15 universities in the UK for Design and Crafts (14th). (The Guardian University Guide 2021).

Many graduates secure jobs at well-known design consultancies. Some choose to use their skills in other fields, such as teaching and management, while others go on to set up their own business or work on a freelance basis.

Graduates from this course go into a range of roles. Recent examples include:

• designer, Unidays
• junior designer, McCann Birmingham
• junior designer, Pentland Brands
• product development, Bakerdays
• freelance artist, Advocate AA
• junior designer; Landor
• junior motion designer; DixonBaxi.