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Product Design

  • 2 Study options
  • Undergraduate
Leicester Campus
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Course summary

Turn your imaginative ideas into real-world solutions through a balance of creative and technical skills. This course empowers you to take a technological approach to designing and developing functional, market-driven, and innovative products.

Bring your ideas to life both digitally and physically with industry standard tools that will enable you to produce digital designs, images and animations as well as 3D prototypes in plastics, wood and metal.

Current industry insight feeds into your learning and we will support you to become an industry-ready graduate who can deploy technologically creative design solutions across a range of industries.

  • Visiting lecturers support week-long projects or run weekly seminars, tutorials or lecture series. Previous visiting lecturers have come from leading companies including Mosley&, Empathic, Redline Studios, Seymourpowell, Out of the Bubble Design and Retail Lab.

  • Our students have secured placements with prestigious companies like Shark/Ninja, MoD, BAE systems, BMW, and Lewis Design Associates.

  • Strengthen your portfolio by entering prestigious competitions and showcasing your work. Our students have recently been recognised in the Design Innovation in Plastics (DIP) competition and have exhibited their projects at New Designers in London.

  • Many of our graduates thrive in a range of exciting roles for global brands like Aston Martin, Triumph, Dyson, and Magmatic, while others launch successful businesses.

  • This course, accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED), sets you on the path to professional chartership, empowering you to shape the future of design and innovation.

Modules

Course Modules

First year
Block 1: DMU Designer
Block 2: Advanced Technology for Designers
Block 3: Design Conception – Thinking and Methods
Block 4: Design Delivery

Second year
Block 1: DMU Designer 2
Block 2: Advanced Technology for Designers 2
Block 3: Design Communication and Definition
Block 4: Design Practice

Third year
Block 1: Design Practice 2
Block 2: Design Conception – Personal Project
Block 3: Design Development – Personal Project
Block 4: Design Delivery – Personal Project

https://www.dmu.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduate-courses/product-design-bsc-degree/product-design-bsc-degree.aspx#what-you-will-study

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • Engineering Designers, Institution of

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Leicester Campus

Study options

  • Bachelor of Science (with Honours) • Full-Time • 3 Years
  • Bachelor of Science (with Honours) • Full-Time • Placement (mandatory) • 4 Years

Start dates

Application codes

Institution code:
D26

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Application codes

Institution code:
D26

This course may be available at alternative locations, please check if other course options are available.

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Entry requirements

Typical qualification requirements

A level
BBC

T Level
M

UCAS Tariff
Offer: 112

From 2 A-Levels or equivalent

Access to HE Diploma
Merit: 30

Pass Access with 30 Level 3 credits at Merit

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Offer: 26

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
DMM

Additional entry requirements

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Contextual admissions

Universities and colleges consider more than grades when assessing applications and may make offers based on a range of criteria. Learn more about contextual offers.

Here at DMU we welcome all applications, no matter what your background. To make sure you get fair and equal access to higher education, when looking at your application we consider more than just your grades–we take into account any challenges that you may have faced in your education. Contextual Offers will be offered to candidates who are in receipt of Free School Meals, who are Care Experienced or who are deemed to live in areas of low HE participation neighbourhoods (POLAR Quintiles 1 & 2).

Learn more on the De Montfort University website

Historical entry grades data

This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).

It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.

Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

Per year tuition fees

LocationFeeYear
England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands & Republic of Ireland£10050
EU & International£16800*

* This is a provisional fee and subject to change.

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

Please note, this fee is subject to parliamentary procedure and will also be subject to a compounded annual inflationary increase.

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