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Design at Lancaster University - UCAS

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2024 - 20252025 - 20262026 - 2027
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This course is not open to application until the 13th May 2025.

Lancaster University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

Open days

28Jun
Lancaster University Open Day
Undergraduate
12Jul
Lancaster University Open Day
Undergraduate
13Sep
Lancaster University Open Day
Undergraduate

Course summary

Design prepares you to tackle the complex challenges of today’s world by developing versatile skills in graphics, products, and user experience (UX/UI). You’ll learn to solve problems with creativity, design research, and professional visualisation techniques. Taught by experts from our world-class design research lab, this programme equips you for a career in design agencies, tech companies, healthcare, education, public services, and beyond — wherever innovation is needed. Why Lancaster?

  • Develop a future-focused, adaptable, and agile skill set through a broad design curriculum that enables you to consider how design can address complex challenges
  • Take a course that helps you become a socially and environmentally responsible designer
  • Benefit from a research-driven approach to teaching, learning from expert designers and practitioners who push the boundaries of design
  • Gain valuable industry experience through working on live briefs with real-world clients
  • Take advantage of our close links with globally renowned design research lab, ImaginationLancaster
Visualise. Experiment. Create. At Lancaster, we view design as a way of understanding the world, as a creative process that can address any problem, and contribute to creating a better society. You will work on projects that help you put this view into practice. Our carefully curated curriculum nurtures creative experimentation, intellectual inquiry, adaptability, critical thinking and ethical awareness as well as emphasising the importance of developing design solutions that are rooted in robust design research. You will learn how to conduct design research using a broad range of design methods, such as sketchbooks, storyboarding, design workshops, prototyping, journey mapping, empathy mapping, IDEO cards, and many more, allowing you to translate that research into exciting, relevant design solutions visualised to industry standard. This approach expands your horizons whilst fostering adaptability as it enables you to work on a range of projects spanning varied topics such as, environmental and social sustainability, healthier lifestyles, urban wellbeing, and digital futures. Our research-driven approach to design allows you to gain skills not only in creating innovative design solutions but also in design processes, methods, and tools, as well as identifying problems and opportunities that would benefit from design – a skill valued by many different employers. Explore what interests you You will have the opportunity to explore a wide range of topics during your time at Lancaster, giving you the flexibility to dive deeper into the design methods and issues that interest you most. Your final year project will showcase a wide range of innovative and impactful ideas. Our broad Design curriculum will allow you to develop an adaptable, futures-focused mindset, with transferable skills that will enable you to stand out in the design industry. Discover your design identity Throughout your degree, you will be encouraged to explore and develop your own design identity and values. By doing this, you will graduate with a strong sense of where you want to take your design career, and you will develop your portfolio to reflect this. To support you in planning your future career, we will help you gain professional contacts by inviting design professionals, many of whom are our alumni, to share their experiences of working in the design industry. You will also have the opportunity to work on live briefs from organisations such as RSA and D&AD as well as with real-world clients, giving you valuable experience you can take forward into your career. In your final year, our Design Consultancy module enables you to work with a real client for the entire year.

How to apply

This course is not open to application until the 13th May 2025.

15Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
W281
Institution code:
L14
Campus name:
Main Site
Campus code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

Student Outcomes

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60%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
85%
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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

For information on our fees, please see www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding.
Design at Lancaster University - UCAS