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Games Design with Foundation Year at Canterbury Christ Church University - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Canterbury Christ Church University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

Course summary

The foundation year will help you take your first step into higher education, broadening your industry knowledge and enabling you to progress to an undergraduate degree. It aims to help you develop a strong foundation of game design, alongside academic and transferable skills, to ensure you get the most out of your degree-level studies. Games Design at Canterbury Christ Church University seeks to develop creatives who can challenge and advance the games industry. Our research and industry lead approach will allow you to explore your creative voice and question what it means to make and play. You’ll explore the processes in design and development and learn how to create games for a range of multimedia platforms that include digital and table-top games for a technological world that is constantly evolving. You’ll build a creative portfolio, showcasing skills in a specialist area of your choice that you have developed throughout the course. As part of a studio-based community, you’ll have access to creative spaces that reflect the studio environments our teaching team have worked in, this will prepare you for industry and help you achieve your very best. From the ground up, we’ll support you in developing technical and teamworking skills needed to succeed in this exciting area. Top reasons to study with us

  • The course is taught in the Daphne Oram building, our exciting creative arts facility, where you’ll have access to all the equipment and guidance necessary to produce innovative games.
  • 94% of our Games Design students were satisfied with the teaching on their course. National Student Survey 2024
  • Canterbury Christ Church University is one of the world leaders in play-culture research, and the School of Creative Arts and Industries holds one of only two major archives of arcade photography in the world.
  • You will be taught by lecturers who have years of experience working in the games industry and creative sectors.
Specialist facilities You’ll have access to a range of excellent facilities, including our dedicated creative arts building, Daphne Oram, which houses:
  • An extensive technology suite home to innovative games design equipment, including high-performance PCs, Mac lab, VR headsets, and equipment to loan.
  • Study areas that allow you to work independently or as a group, creating a vibrant creative learning culture.
  • A wealth of resources to learn, play, and explore. Including: video game consoles, games and media to borrow, a library of board-games, and more.
Location This course is run at our Canterbury Campus in Kent. Canterbury is just 50 miles south-east of London and less than an hour by high-speed train from St Pancras. Located on a UNESCO World Heritage Site the campus offers state-of-the-art buildings, right in the centre of a vibrant and world-famous cathedral city. You’ll benefit from a campus with excellent learning and teaching resources, music venues, a superb sports centre, a well-stocked bookshop and plenty of coffee bars and places to eat. A short walk away is Augustine House our award-winning library and home to a vast range of learning resources and student support teams.

Modules

For a list of core and likely optional modules, please visit our website.

How to apply

29Jan

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:
I601
Institution code:
C10
Campus name:
Main Site
Campus code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Foundation

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

Please see our website for information

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/

Student Outcomes

Operated by the Office for Students
70%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
80%
Go onto work and study

The number of student respondents and response rates can be important in interpreting the data – it is important to note your experience may be different from theirs. This data will be based on the subject area rather than the specific course. Read more about this data on the Discover Uni website.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9535* Year 1
Northern Ireland £9535* Year 1
Scotland £9535* Year 1
Wales £9535* Year 1
Channel Islands £9535* Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9535* Year 1

*This is a provisional fee and subject to change.

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

The fees above are for the 2025/26 academic year but may be subject to change following any announcements by the UK Government (approved by Parliament) regarding maximum Undergraduate tuition fee caps for 2025/26. In addition, the University reserves the right to increase all full-time and part-time Undergraduate tuition fees mid-course, in line with any further inflationary increase in the Government tuition fee cap which is approved by Parliament. The University will publish information about any changes to tuition fees on its website. International Tuition Fees (including EU fees): To be confirmed Undergraduate tuition fees for International students are not subject to the Government’s regulations on maximum tuition fees.
Games Design with Foundation Year at Canterbury Christ Church University - UCAS