BA (Hons) Furniture and Product Design
4-Year Bachelor's Degree
The total service fee for this program:
€ 499
Pre payment for this program:
€ 99
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ABOUT
Introduction:
The world is changing and so are the private and professional spaces we live, learn, eat, sleep, work and relax in. If you’re a hands-on, experimentative designer who’s curious about furniture and product design then you’ve found the perfect course!
Together, we’ll be exploring function, form, and the relationships we forge with the simplest objects — from beds, baths and bookcases to desks, door handles and deckchairs. Alongside technical skills like sketching, modelmaking and prototyping, we’ll explore the key human issues of ethically responsible design, the ways our lifestyles are changing, and the importance of harmony between products and spaces. You’ll test your skills across live projects, and you can even complete a year-long work placement, throwing yourself into the cutting edge of real-world industry.
We don’t produce cookie-cutter designers. Our students graduate as specialists, not generalists — some are successful freelancers, and others secure roles with companies like John Lewis, DFS, Next and Nestlé. Some are designer-makers; others become journalists and curators. By exploring your craft, developing your own design identity, and making the most of some genuinely unique opportunities, you’ll be a stand-out prospect in the world of design.
Careers and employability
Our course is designed to prepare you to succeed in the design industry, through work placements, working on real projects from industry, input from industry professionals, and regularly updated course content.
Sandwich placement year
In your third year, you’ll have the opportunity to take a year-long, full-time placement. Placement years are the perfect opportunity for you to put your skills to the test in a real design role, and test out potential careers. Through modules and projects, you’ll study in Years One and Two, you’ll develop skills that employers are looking for and a design portfolio that showcases your design interests and capabilities. Our Employability team will support you in everything from finding opportunities to preparing your CV and practicing interview techniques.
This year in industry will provide you with invaluable experience that is hugely valued by graduate employers. It can also give you a sense of focus and direction for your final year work, and graduate jobs. Some of our students design their final year projects around their experiences in industry and sometimes work with their placement companies to deliver the work. Many students return to their placement company after graduation, having developed a useful network of contacts within the industry.
Students typically gain placements in product design companies across the UK and abroad. Recent destinations have included:
- deVOL Kitchens
- 2MZ & Pluck
- Spiral Product Design
- Whitemeadow Furniture
- Philip Watts Designs.
NTU is ranked fourth in the UK for the number of year-long placement undergraduates, studying design-related courses (HESA 2018/19).
Professional qualification
Successful completion of the 36 weeks leads to an extra qualification – the Diploma in Professional Practice, which will further enhance your CV.
Where do Product Design graduates from NTU work?
NTU has a strong product design alumni community, with many graduates working in senior positions in leading national and international companies.
Recent graduate destinations include:
- G-Plan
- John Lewis
- Next
- Benchmark
- Nestlé
- FBC London
- Object Design
- DFS
- Roundhouse Design
- Kitchen Architecture.
Our Employability team
Our expert Employability team will work closely with you at every stage of your career planning, providing personal support and advice. You can benefit from this service at any time during your studies, and for up to three years after completing your course.
Entry requirements
For this course, you will need one of the following:
- A-levels – BBC; or
- BTEC Extended Diploma – DMM; or
- 112 UCAS Tariff points from three A-levels or equivalent qualifications
and
- GCSEs – English and Maths grade C / 4.
Fees and funding
International fees for 2022 entry onto a full-time undergraduate course are:
- £15,600, or
- £16,200 (for courses in the Nottingham School of Art & Design and Nottingham Business School).
Tuition fees are payable for each year that you are at University. Tuition fees for the second and subsequent years of your undergraduate course may increase in line with inflation and as specified by the UK government.
If you choose to do a work placement as part of the undergraduate course the fee for the work placement will be £1,385.
Late Applications
If you missed the UCAS January deadline, it’s not too late to apply to join us in September 2022.
Applying to university after the January deadline isn’t anything to worry about – we accept applications for most of our undergraduate courses until Thursday 30 June 2022.
If you apply after Thursday 30 June 2022, your application will automatically be entered into Clearing. Clearing opens on Tuesday 5 July 2022, but we recommend submitting your application as soon as possible.
FREE VISA SERVICE
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Expenses (GBP)
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accommodation
The new international applicants who want to study at the Nottingham Trent University in the UK can use the NTU accommodation options (residence halls, studio flats, postgraduate mature student flats, summer accommodation, homestay accommodation, and so on) or use the help of the university to find private accommodation (they must pay extra for the utilities, fixtures, fittings, security, and council tax) in the UK according to their budgets and situations, however, we recommend you to choose shared rooms in the university to feel more at home which will help you make new friends and do not get homesick, also it will help you with the expenses.
After Graduation
The students can use the financial support of the university and pay for their living or study expenses in the UK, however, if the students want to work while studying at Nottingham Trent University and gain more financial support, skills, and field experience in real situations, they can use the help of the university to find proper and related part-time jobs in this country with CV writing and interview techniques that they teach all the students, on the other hand, the students can use the JobShop or the Unitemps to find different kinds of part-time jobs at the NTU (ambassador, teacher assistant, and so on) or the local job market.