Types of undergraduate courses
We offer a range of undergraduate courses
These include:
Foundation degrees
Foundation degrees are valued by employers and can help you to further your career, as you will develop the knowledge and skills employers are looking for.
They are equivalent to the first two years of a bachelors degree, but you will usually have the chance to stay on at Derby to top your qualification up to a full degree.
Year Zero
If you're not quite ready to start a bachelors degree in an art or design subject, you can take Year Zero for one year first.
During this studio based course, you will explore, challenge and develop your visual and conceptual skills, so you are ready to move on to the first year of your specialist degree.
Technology Foundation Programme
If you have not got the right subject qualifications to get straight on to bachelors degrees in these areas:
- engineering
- media production
- music and media technologies
- music technology.
You can take the Technology Foundation Programme for a year first to develop your knowledge and skills.
Bachelors degrees
These are qualifications such as BA (Hons), BSc (Hons), BEng, and LLB plus all joint honours courses.
Bacherlors degrees usually take three or four years, and depending on your visa restrictions you may be able to spend a year on a work placement.
And, depending on the course you choose, you could achieve a professional qualification or exemption from professional exams.
Joint honours degrees
A joint honours degree is a bachelors degree where you can study two or three different subjects. So you do not have to specialise in just one subject, and you will learn a wide range of skills.
Some popular joint honours degrees are:
- Media Studies and Film & TV Studies
- Media Studies and Professional Writing
- Business Management and Accounting
- Business Management and Marketing
- Applied Criminology and Sociology
- Education Studies and English
- Education Studies and Psychology
- English and Creative Writing
- English and Theatre Studies
- English and Professional Writing
- Geography and Geology
- International Relations & Global Development and Third World Development
- Law and Applied Criminology
- Property Development and Architectural Design
- Psychology and Applied Criminology
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Psychology and Sociology
You will still receive either a BA (Hons) BSc (Hons) degree.
Watch the interview with Carlton McDonald to find out how a joint honours degree works.
Top up degrees
If you already have a HND or foundation degree, you can take a top up degree, which usually takes one year full time, in which you will study your final year in order to gain a bachelors degree.
