Graphic Design with Foundation Year

Foundation Year
Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.

International Students
For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. Applications for International Foundation Years are also handled by KUIC; please do not apply via UCAS as the University will not be able to process your application and you may still be charged the UCAS application fee. To find out more and to apply for an International Foundation Year, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/

Graphic Design

Discover the skills and creative thinking behind powerful visual communication. Develop your design practice while exploring the cultural impact of graphic design and experimenting with materials, processes, and technologies. You’ll learn to respond confidently to client briefs, take projects from ideation to execution, and present professional design solutions, preparing you for a creative career with a BA in Graphic Design at Keele.

Why choose this course?

• Build your confidence with creative tools to devise visual communications to a professional standard

• Learn how graphic designers can tackle stereotypes, address social injustices and promote good causes through design

• Engage with placement opportunities to apply your learning in the 'real-world'

• Study abroad at a partner university across the globe

• Top 15 in the UK for Graduate Employability (Uni Compare rankings, 2026)

Join a hands-on BA in Graphic Design to develop creative and technical skills to produce compelling design work to a professional standard, for a range of different platforms. Learn how to respond to briefs, work collaboratively with others, and refine your design approach for different audiences. Your practice will be informed by critical judgement and an awareness of the social and cultural importance of graphic design and how this can shape attitudes and behaviours amongst various audiences.

At Keele, we offer interdisciplinary learning, enabling you to build a skill set applicable to a range of careers within the creative industries. You will have access to facilities, resources and support from staff within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. As a creative practitioner, you will learn to showcase your individuality through the use of hardware, software and equipment available. Our programme gives you the opportunity to complete a work placement to embed your learning in the real-world, preparing you for graduation and beyond.

About Keele
Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.

Course Modules

For a list of indicative modules please visit the course page on the Keele University website.