BA (Hons) - Graphic Design with Placement
Harness your passion and kick-start a career as a graphic designer with a high-quality placement during the second year of your studies.
On our highly respected graphic design degree programme, you’ll produce exciting designs across a range of traditional and digital media, giving you the skills and experience to become a graphic designer ready to unleash your creativity on the world.
Our graduates have gone on to work for well-known names such as Time Out, MTV, Conde Naste, Future Publishing, Wallpaper & the BBC.

Course Overview
Our graphic design course will give you hands-on experience, providing the expertise, experience, confidence and creative skills needed to launch your career in graphic design.
We realise that, as a graduate, what makes you stand out from the crowd is your personality, passion, and the quality of the work in your portfolio. That's why we've designed this graphic design degree to provide you with a wide variety of projects, including a high quality placement & ‘live briefs’, to help you discover what suits you best, allowing you to focus on developing your specialties.
You will receive extensive feedback, support, and advice throughout your studies and have access to our state-of-the-art facilities and equipment.
On this course you will...
- Learn graphic design, magazine design, illustration and typography from experts in these specialisms, and use industry-standard software, equipment and facilities.
- Undertake a real-world creative placement where you have the opportunity to gain high-quality work experience during the second year of your studies.
- Do real graphic design work. 80% of your studies will be practical, so you won't be just learning theory.
- Build a robust portfolio of work for exhibits to showcase your graphic design training and display your talent to potential employers.
- Benefit from practical demonstrations, visits, and feedback from professional designers.
What our graduates say
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Throughout all the industries I have worked in, my degree gave me the confidence to tackle everything head-on.
Vincent Walden, BA (Hons) Graphic Design
Vincent is the founder of Studio Walden, an eco-friendly and sustainable Graphic Design studio in Cumbria.
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I was really taken by the fact that our course has a blog, which keeps updating with Studio Live and student work, and shows the inner workings of the course. It really looked so interesting compared to the other universities, it really showed that creative engagement with real life.
Chloe Farsi, BA (Hons) Graphic Design (with integrated foundation year)
Chloe joined the University of Cumbria in 2013 and now returns as a volunteer at our annual Art Degree Show.
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Carlisle - Brampton Road Campus
Located just outside the city, right on top of Hadrian's Wall, the Brampton Road campus is full of history, buzzing with excitement, creativity, and a sense of endless possibility. The home of creators, entertainers, rule breakers, and change-markers.
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