Name: Graphic Design BA (Hons)
Price: 22900 GBP

Refine your practice and explore your creative potential

Prepare for your career in graphic design

With the Graphic Design BA (Hons) course from Kingston University, you'll use our studio spaces and facilities to experiment and explore new ways to push the boundaries and open discourse across disciplines.

Throughout the course, you'll be encouraged to explore and develop expertise in current design approaches, techniques, media, and applications. These include branding, editorial, interactive design, packaging and 3D design, advertising, information design, digital moving image, and sustainable and experiential design.

A variety of skills and techniques will support your project work by helping you to realise solution-led ideas. These skills include typography, photography, moving image, printmaking, rapid prototyping, analysis and research, human factors, presentation, interactive and graphic software.

As part of Kingston School of Art, students on this course benefit from joining a creative community where collaborative working and critical practice are encouraged. Our workshops and studios are open to all disciplines, enabling students and staff to work together, share ideas and explore multi-disciplinary making.

Why choose this course

On this course, you'll be encouraged to be innovative, invent and inspire change. In addition to learning core design and research skills, you'll work on live projects throughout the course. Recent collaborations have included RSA, D&AD, Creative Review, The Science Museum, Amnesty International, Croydon Council, The British Film Institute and Save the Children.

You'll develop a personal practice through rigorous investigation of a range of focused projects. Design fields include photography, film and animation, typography, interaction, service design, user experience, social design, digital, and book and editorial design.

At the end of the course, you'll be equipped with a combination of creative skills, cognitive processes and methodologies, which will help you to shape the future for business, culture and communities.

No.1 in London

Top University in London and Top 4 in the UK for Graphic Design, The Guardian University Guide 2026.

The Guardian University Guide 2026

Top 10 in UK

The Complete University Guide 2026 ranks us in the Top 10 in the UK for Art & Design – covers Fashion, Fashion Promotion and Communication, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration Animation, Interior Design, and Product and Furniture Design.

The Complete University Guide 2026

The Art School Experience

As part of Kingston School of Art, students benefit from joining a creative community where we encourage collaborative working and critical practice.

Our workshops and labs are open to all disciplines, enabling students and staff to work together, share ideas and explore multi-disciplinary making.

Find out more about Kingston School of Art

Course content

The Graphic Design course has an applied approach to the expanding field of graphic design: you'll use our studios and facilities to experiment, exploring new ways to push the boundaries of visual communication.

You'll have plenty of opportunities to participate in live projects and work with the broader design industry: collaboration, teamwork and cross-disciplinary projects are strongly encouraged to reflect professional practice.

The course hosts regular visits to studios, events and conferences both within the UK and further afield.

Year 1

Year 1 encourages an open-minded and exploratory approach to understanding design. You'll work on individual and team projects, to develop your knowledge of the design process, visual language, typographic principles and core skills.

Core modules

Year 2

Year 2 helps you develop creative and interpersonal skills, used to explore imaginative ways to communicate. You'll develop a particular area of graphic design through self-initiated projects, complementing your studio work. You'll learn about the wide social and cultural context in which graphic designers work, and will collaborate with students from other courses on projects. You'll also gain useful career management skills and will have the opportunity to study abroad or undertake a work placement.

Core modules

Optional year

Many of our students take advantage of the ERASMUS scheme to spend a year studying or working in Europe. We have a network of links with prestigious design institutions.

More than 100 students from the course have made use of the ERASMUS Exchange over the last four years. Graphics students on the ERASMUS programme have studied in 17 different institutions.

More than 50 students have made use of ERASMUS funding to support industrial placements. The ERASMUS programme has supported more than 40 students from all over Europe studying at Kingston. The study abroad programme with links in Japan, Korea, and the US supports students studying internationally.

Final year

In your final year, you'll work from a range of briefs, and develop your own, to reflect your personal interests and career aspirations. Some students work a range of areas; others choose to specialise in one. This could be branding, social design, editorial design, film and moving image, photography, advertising and promotion, typography or interactive design. Your interests and self-directed work will inform the written element of the course.

Core modules

Student using equipment in Print Making workshop.

International students: direct application

Are you an international student? Have you decided Kingston is the place for you? If so, you can apply for this course directly, rather than having to go through UCAS.

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What career opportunities does this course offer?

Our Graphic Design graduates are renowned for being autonomous, versatile and entrepreneurial visual communicators. Many graduates develop their own design practices, while others choose to take postgraduate courses before embarking on their careers.

They are employed worldwide in the fields of branding, advertising, digital moving image, typography, interactive design, packaging and 3D design, photography, information design, and sustainable and experiential design.

Future Skills

Our Future Skills programme is embedded within all our undergraduate courses and throughout the whole Kingston experience. These skills will help you to become a future-proof graduate by equipping you with the skills most valued by employers, such as problem-solving, digital competency and adaptability.

As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills. You’ll also understand how to demonstrate and articulate to employers how these future skills give you the edge.

Future Skills page

Teaching and assessment

Scheduled learning and teaching on this course includes timetabled activities including lectures, seminars and small group tutorials.

It may also include critiques, project work, studio practice and performance, digital labs, workshops, and placements.

Fees and funding

Fee category	Annual Fee
Home (UK students)	£10,050*
International
Year 1 (2027/28):	£22,900
Year 2 (2028/29):	£23,800
Year 3 (2029/30):	£24,800

The tuition fee you pay depends on whether you are assessed as a 'Home' (UK), 'Islands' or 'International' student.

For courses with Professional Placement, the fee for the placement year can be viewed on the undergraduate fees table. The placement fee published is for the relevant academic year stated in the table. This fee is subject to annual increases but will not increase by more than the fee caps as prescribed by the Office for Students or such other replacing body.

*For full-time programmes lasting more than one academic year, a tuition fee is payable for each academic year of the course.

Your annual tuition fee covers your first attempt at all modules required for that academic year. Any re-study or repeat of modules will incur additional charges, calculated according to the number of credits taken.

Home students (UK):

Tuition fees are subject to inflation-linked increases in line with government policy. Updated fees will be confirmed in line with the maximum fee cap set by the Government or the Office for Students (OfS) for each academic year. This means your fee may increase for each academic year of study, but only up to the maximum amount permitted for that year.

Eligible UK students can apply to the Government for a tuition loan, which is paid direct to the University. This has a low interest rate which is charged from the time the first part of the loan is paid to the University until you have repaid it.

International students:

Full-time taught international student fees are subject to an annual increase, which is published in advance for the full duration of your programme.

Fee category	Annual Fee
Home (UK students)	£9,790*
International
Year 1 (2026/27):	£21,400
Year 2 (2027/28):	£22,300
Year 3 (2028/29):	£23,200

The tuition fee you pay depends on whether you are assessed as a 'Home' (UK), 'Islands' or 'International' student.

For courses with Professional Placement, the fee for the placement year can be viewed on the undergraduate fees table. The placement fee published is for the relevant academic year stated in the table. This fee is subject to annual increases but will not increase by more than the fee caps as prescribed by the Office for Students or such other replacing body.

*For full-time programmes lasting more than one academic year, a tuition fee is payable for each academic year of the course.

Your annual tuition fee covers your first attempt at all modules required for that academic year. Any re-study or repeat of modules will incur additional charges, calculated according to the number of credits taken.

Home students (UK):

Tuition fees are subject to inflation-linked increases in line with government policy. Updated fees will be confirmed in line with the maximum fee cap set by the Government or the Office for Students (OfS) for each academic year. This means your fee may increase for each academic year of study, but only up to the maximum amount permitted for that year.

Eligible UK students can apply to the Government for a tuition loan, which is paid direct to the University. This has a low interest rate which is charged from the time the first part of the loan is paid to the University until you have repaid it.

International students:

Full-time taught international student fees are subject to an annual increase, which is published in advance for the full duration of your programme.

Fee category	Annual Fee
Home (UK students)	£9,535*
International
Year 1 (2025/26):	£19,500
Year 2 (2026/27):	£20,300
Year 3 (2027/28):	£21,100

The tuition fee you pay depends on whether you are assessed as a 'Home' (UK), 'Islands' or 'International' student. In 2025/26 the fees for this course are above.

For courses with Professional Placement, the fee for the placement year can be viewed on the undergraduate fees table. The placement fee published is for the relevant academic year stated in the table. This fee is subject to annual increases but will not increase by more than the fee caps as prescribed by the Office for Students or such other replacing body.

*For full-time programmes lasting more than one academic year, a tuition fee is payable for each academic year of the course. Your annual tuition fees cover your first attempt at all of the modules necessary to complete that academic year. A re-study of any modules will incur additional charges calculated by the number of credits. Home tuition fees may be subject to annual increases but will not increase by more than the fee caps as prescribed by the Office for Students or such other replacing body. Full time taught International fees are subject to an annual increase and are published in advance for the full duration of the programme.

Eligible UK students can apply to the Government for a tuition loan, which is paid direct to the University. This has a low interest rate which is charged from the time the first part of the loan is paid to the University until you have repaid it.

Additional course costs

Some courses may require additional costs beyond tuition fees. When planning your studies, you’ll want to consider tuition fees, living costs, and any extra costs that might relate to your area of study.

Your tuition fees include costs for teaching, assessment and university facilities. So your access to libraries, shared IT resources and various student support services are all covered. Accommodation and general living expenses are not covered by these fees.

Where applicable, additional expenses for your course may include:

Scholarships and bursaries

For students interested in studying this course at Kingston, there are several opportunities to seek funding support.

Scholarships and bursaries

What are the facilities like?

When you join Kingston University, you will have access to a wide range of facilities and resources designed to support your studies. Use the virtual tour below to explore some of the facilities you will use as part of your course.

Course changes and regulations

The information on this page reflects the currently intended course structure and module details. To improve your student experience and the quality of your degree, we may review and change the material information of this course. Find out more about course changes

Programme Specifications for the course are published ahead of each academic year.

Regulations governing this course can be found on our website.