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Fashion Design (Extended Degree)

Arts University Plymouth

UCAS Code: W234 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

Entry requirements


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104-120

Although many of our students do come in with top grades and high UCAS points, these aren’t necessarily essential for entry. We typically ask for a minimum of 104 UCAS points, but we understand that talented artists, designers and makers can have a wide range of relevant strengths and skills beyond formal qualifications. We’re just as interested in exploring your portfolio as we are in seeing your grades.

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About this course


Course option

4years

Full-time | 2024

Subjects

Fashion

Fashion design

Arts University Plymouth is an arts university for the 21st century, preparing students who are uniquely placed to provide creative solutions to the complex global challenges of a changing world. Formerly known as Plymouth College of Art, we were granted full university title in Spring 2022. We are now the city of Plymouth’s first and only specialist arts university, allowing us to offer our students a dynamic and unique learning experience.

In May 2022 we were awarded the **Best Small or Specialist University at the 2022 WhatUni Student Choice Awards**, coming top in a list of well-respected specialist UK universities, based on unbiased and honest reviews from students across the UK, in a category that highlights the quality of our provision as a specialist creative university.

**Our Extended Degrees offer a dynamic and supportive environment in which you will be encouraged to explore and develop core skills and competencies as a creative practitioner.**

- Identify your personal practice through access to college-wide facilities.

- Learn in the unique environment and study experience of a specialist art college, characterised by creativity, experimentation and imagination.

- Successful completion of the first year guarantees you a place on one of our full undergraduate programmes.

If you want to pursue a specialist creative undergraduate degree but feel you have yet to acquire the experience or typical entry requirements, our Extended Degrees will help focus and refine your creative interests through applied practice, and facilitate your future learning journey.

This programme provides you with an intensive interdisciplinary year of experimental and investigative approaches to developing your learning in preparation for your entry to year one of our BA (Hons) undergraduate programmes.

We’ll help you discover your own interests within the creative arts, building academic confidence, purpose and direction. Our Extended Degrees offer a four-year route towards gaining a BA (Hons) degree with us, providing you with insight into a range of art, design and media skills and approaches.

Our Extended Degrees will challenge your preconceptions, encourage risk-taking and build confidence in your own ideas and abilities. You will be taught through lectures, workshops and studio sessions, seminars and tutorials, with opportunities to investigate a wide range of materials, processes, methodologies and practices.

You’ll develop critical skills relevant to degree-level study, while broadening your use of drawing, visual research, contextual studies, digital imaging and design methods. Our academically robust and intellectually stimulating degree programmes are delivered by our team of academics, technical demonstrators and invited experts who together deliver excellence in learning, teaching and assessment. Our programmes encourage diversity in thinking and making - from practical applications through to reflective, analytical writing.

You will be introduced to facilities across the college, including our 3D studios, specialist drawing and print spaces, film and photographic facilities, Fab Lab Plymouth, and the Equipment Resource Centre.

Modules

The first year of an Extended Degree is not a qualification in its own right, but when you successfully complete it you are guaranteed a place on our full undergraduate programme.

You’ll develop confidence in your use of drawing, visual research, contextual studies, digital imaging and design methods, and you’ll have the chance to experiment with a range of materials, equipment, processes and software.

As the year goes by you’ll specialise in your chosen undergraduate subject (illustration, graphic design, fine art, etc.), helping you to become a confident, independent and creative artist, designer or maker.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

Channel Islands
£9,250
per year
England
£9,250
per year
EU
£16,500
per year
International
£16,500
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

The Uni


Course location:

Arts University Plymouth

Department:

Arts, Design and Media

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What students say


We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

78%
Fashion
78%
Fashion design

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Design studies

Teaching and learning

81%
Staff make the subject interesting
88%
Staff are good at explaining things
82%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
76%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

71%
Library resources
82%
IT resources
79%
Course specific equipment and facilities
67%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

95%
UK students
5%
International students
13%
Male students
87%
Female students
63%
2:1 or above
13%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

B
B
A*

After graduation


We don't have more detailed stats to show you in relation to this subject area at this university but read about typical employment outcomes and prospects for graduates of this subject below.

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Design studies

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£13k

£13k

£16k

£16k

£18k

£18k

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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Higher entry requirements
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BA (Hons) 3 Years Full-time 2024
UCAS Points: 104-120

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