Illustration (with Integrated Foundation & Professional Practice Years) Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Course Overview - Illustration (with Integrated Foundation & Professional Practice Years) Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Learn the language of illustration and find your visual voice.
BA (Hons) Illustration with Integrated Foundation Year and Professional Practice Year is a five-year degree programme, including a foundation year to help develop your skills and creativity before you start the first year of the degree course and your fourth year would be an industry placement to further develop your skills and CV.
Experiment, explore, play, and take risks in studios where ideas are tested through material practice and critical thinking. You’ll work with long‑establishe...
Learn the language of illustration and find your visual voice.
BA (Hons) Illustration with Integrated Foundation Year and Professional Practice Year is a five-year degree programme, including a foundation year to help develop your skills and creativity before you start the first year of the degree course and your fourth year would be an industry placement to further develop your skills and CV.
Experiment, explore, play, and take risks in studios where ideas are tested through material practice and critical thinking. You’ll work with long‑established techniques as well as emerging technologies, building a practice that shifts easily between approaches and continually redefines what illustration can be. This is illustration taught as a dynamic, materially exploratory, and conceptually rigorous discipline – shaped by the creative possibilities that happen when methods and ideas collide.
You'll have the chance to work on live briefs for brands like Toyota, Netflix, and Hallmark, and enter competitions including the Penguin Design Awards and the Folio Society, and have your portfolio reviewed by creative agents who work with emerging illustrators. These industry connections inform the curriculum and are designed to help you build confidence, experience and a developing professional voice as you progress through the degree.
By the time you graduate, you'll have a distinctive visual voice, a portfolio that spans editorial, narrative, children's books, brand work – and the creative confidence to go freelance, get signed by an agency, or carve out a practice entirely your own.
Course Information
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Course Details
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Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
5 Years
Start Date
2027-09-13
Campus
Farnham
Application Details
13 January
Application deadline
Provider Details
Codes/info
Course Code
A63-D43
Institution Code
C93
Points of Entry
Foundation
Entry Requirements
A level
32 UCAS tariff points from A-Level qualifications. As this course requires a portfolio, you are not required to have an art & design-based subject.
T Level
Pass (D or E)
M
Minimum Pass at D or E. As this course requires a portfolio, you are not required to have an art & design-based subject.
UCAS Tariff
32.0
168.0
We consider the strength of our applicants' portfolios as well as their grades and we therefore may make offers which are lower than our standard entry criteria of 112 tariff points. This may be to students who have faced difficulties that have affected their performance and who were expected to achieve higher results - in these cases, a strong portfolio is especially important. We regularly admit students with a tariff much higher than our standard 112 requirement, and applicants who show potential but aren't quite at the stage to be able to succeed on the course may be offered a 4-year degree with an integrated foundation year which has a standard entry requirement of 32 tariff points.
Scottish Higher
32 UCAS tariff points from Scottish Higher qualifications. As this course requires a portfolio, you are not required to have an art & design-based subject.
Access to HE Diploma
32 UCAS tariff points from an accredited Access to Higher Education Diploma. As this course requires a portfolio, you are not required to have an art & design-based subject.
GCSE/National 4/National 5
In addition to 32 UCAS tariff points, you also required to achieve a minimum 4 GCSE's, grade 4/C or above, including English Language.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
24.0
24 total points in the International Baccalaureate Diploma. As this course requires a portfolio, you are not required to have an art & design-based subject.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
PPP
32 UCAS tariff points from BTEC Extended Diploma qualification. As this course requires a portfolio, you are not required to have an art & design-based subject.
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