Course Overview

On our BA Digital Design, our priority is ensuring that you graduate with a creative, professional skillset.

This incorporates communication design through typography, images and messaging, craft and digital skills drawing on typography, graphics and user experience/interfaces (UX/UI), as well as the concept of social design: using data as raw material for design, and the ethos of “design for good.”

These three strands will ensure that you are ready for the practical realities of digital design work. This could mean working to a brief, pitching design concepts, collaborating with other industries, and engaging in user research, fieldwork, and ethnography.

You will also graduate with a strong foundation in design methods, meaning that from the initial prototype, you will be able to implement your visual sketches, proposed user journeys, and storyboards effectively as a well-rounded digital designer.

Innovation and human-design centered, this degree will provide graduates with a strong grounding in design for digital platforms and Extended Reality (XR) environments. This practice-led degree combines industry experience, with fundamentals in digital design including moving images, graphic design, animation, and human-computer interaction design.

Teaching in this program emphasizes active learning: your studio-based workshops and seminars will be supplemented by lectures, technical demonstrations, and open studio sessions where teams will collaborate on projects – all based in our new, state-of-the-art media centre – the Sir David Bell Building.

You’ll be set authentic assessment, meaning that your projects, tasks, and exercises will replicate the working world of digital design, ensuring that you are fully prepared for life after graduation. Between Years 2 and 3, you can also opt for a professional placement year, meaning you have the opportunity to apply for a placement and gain valuable real-world experience in digital design.

Across the program, you will work to a brief, build project management skills, and work with external "clients" in the community on live projects, as well as participate in design competitions.

You will also be well supported in our School of Arts and Digital Industries, as the design provision at Roehampton will draw on existing strengths in computer science, media production, and performing arts, meaning that there are fantastic opportunities for collaboration across the School with other courses and teams.

By incorporating core visual design skills and technical development skills, our BA in Digital Design will help you emerge with an ability to design and develop communications, services, and experiences in numerous industries.

General Eligibility

• passes in two distinct subjects at GCE Advanced Level; or

• a pass in one subject at GCE Advanced Level plus (a) passes in two distinct subjects at GCE Advanced Subsidiary Level, or (b) a Vocational A-Level Single Award, or (c) two Vocational A-Level part Awards;

• a Vocational A-Level Double Award; or

• a Vocational A-Level Single Award plus (a) two Vocational A-Level part Awards, or (b) passes in two distinct subjects at GCE Advanced Subsidiary Level; or

• a BTEC National Certificate or Diploma; or

• a completed T-Level award; or

• a Scottish Certificate of Education with (a) passes in five subjects, including at least three at a Higher grade, or (b) passes in four subjects all at a Higher grade or New Higher grade; or

• the full Diploma of the International Baccalaureate; or

• an Irish Leaving Certificate with passes in four subjects at Grade C at the Higher level.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each component