BSc (Hons) Product Design

When can you start this course? | UCAS code | Fees | Entry requirements

Why choose this course?

We've developed this course with industry professionals so you can be sure you'll be learning the most up to date skills and knowledge.
It's your chance to work with exciting new technologies to produce innovative designs.
You'll study in our Markeaton Street building, which has fantastic facilities.

About the course

The BSc (Hons) Product Design course has its emphasis on design for mass production and design engineering. It's ideal if you're a creative thinker with a real interest in the technical design of products, particularly how industry manufactures them and how they actually work. That's why we involve manufacturers in the course - you'll work on industry sponsored assignments that will really enhance your development as a designer. And you'll develop the range of skills that they have told us are essential for a good designer.

With a history of award winning students, Derby offers you a great opportunity to develop a successful future in this exciting area.

You can specialise in eco-design or design for manufacture during this course. We'll offer you a great opportunity to develop your design skills - our students and graduates are now regularly winning national prizes.

If you want to gain work experience, you can take an optional work placement between stages two and three during which you'll study an additional qualification, the Diploma in Professional Practice.

This course is in the process of being professionally accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) at Membership level for graduates. It is also accredited by The Engineering Council.

If you don't have the appropriate qualifications to start this course, you can study our Technology Foundation Programme for a year first.

Find out more about what subjects and modules you'll be studying...

Your career

Graduate Matt Stevenson now has a multi-million pound business and recently met Sir Richard Branson here at the University of Derby.

Product Design graduate Matt Stevenson now has a multi-million pound business and has sold fish tanks to celebrities such as Paris Hilton. He also recently met Richard Branson here at Derby. Read more...

Employment prospects in this sector are good. Our graduates have shown that there is a wealth of career opportunities available to product designers. Many still find employment in traditional industries, despite the downturn in British manufacturing and industrial output.

There's a strong market for good designers - it's a global business. Many international organisations choose to centre their design efforts in the UK. With modern technology, geography is no longer a limiting factor.

Start dates

If you're from the UK or EU you can apply to study this course in:

September 2012

If you're from a country outside the EU you can apply to study this course full time in:

September 2012

UCAS code

W242

Fees

This is a resource intensive course.

UK/EU students

Full time: £7,495 (each year)
Part time: £935 per module (you usually take 18 of these modules in total).

International students

Full time: £9,975 (each year)

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2012 and August 2013. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.