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Product Design

Course details
  • BSc (Hons)
  • 3 Years
  • Full-time
  • 22 September 2025
  • Undergraduate
Course location
Main Site

Course summary

This is an English-medium course. We also offer this course through the medium of Welsh, see Dylunio Cynnrych W241

If you’re interested in making your imagination a reality this is the course for you. It focuses on a wide range of design sectors immersing you in the design and manufacture of products. You’ll study human centred design and design thinking methodologies. Every year project work placements with industrial partners will challenge and develop you both creatively and professionally, allowing you to experience a diverse range of working environments, projects and companies.

What is design? Is it…?

Making people’s lives better?
Improving the way things work?
How we organise things?
Improving the ways we communicate?
How we think strategically?
Using imagination to create real things?
Making change to communities?
Imagining and designing the future?
Designing experiences and products that people love?
Improving and innovating products and services?
Starting creative businesses?
Making difficult decisions?
Working with others for the greater good?
Making the world a better place?

If you said yes to one or more of these, you are a future product designer! Product Design is about making your imagination a reality. Everything we experience in our built environment has been created by people for people. Designers come from different backgrounds, some have creative skills, some have technical skills, but all are visionaries who are dedicated to improving the world around them. Product Design encompasses a wide range of careers for creative people who want to problem solve, innovate and change the world.

If you’re interested in making your imagination a reality this is the course for you. It focuses on a wide range of design sectors immersing you in the design and manufacture of products. Every year project work placements with industrial partners will challenge and develop you both creatively and professionally, allowing you to experience a diverse range of working environments, projects and companies.

‘Placement Year’ and 'International Experience Year’ options are available for this course. You will have the opportunity to fully consider these options when you have started your course at Bangor and can make an application for a transfer onto such a pathway at the appropriate time. You can find more information about these options on our website and if you have any questions, please get in touch.

Modules

For details of the modular structure, please see the course description on Bangor University's website.

How to apply

Apply by
29 January

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
W240
Institution code:
B06
Campus name:
Main Site
Campus Code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

UCAS Tariff
96 - 128 points

A level

Including Grade C in Design and Technology or an Art/Engineering subject.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
MMM - DDM

We will also consider other BTEC qualifications in conjunction with other level 3 qualifications.

Access to HE Diploma

Access to HE Diploma: Pass required.

Scottish Higher

Minimum of 5 Scottish Highers - some subject specific grades/Advanced Highers may be required.

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

International Baccalaureate Diploma: Pass required.

Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (last awarded Summer 2024)

We will accept this qualification in conjunction with other level 3 qualifications.

Extended Project

Points can include a relevant Extended Project (EPQ) but must include a minimum 2 full A-levels, or equivalent. Please contact us for more information.

OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma
MMM - DDM

T Level

T Level qualifications are considered on a case by case basis.

Product Design applicants who meet the specified entry requirements will required to attend an interview. Applicants may also be asked to submit a portfolio. Please se our website or contact us for more information.

We are happy to accept combinations of the qualifications listed above, as well as alternative Level 3 qualifications such as City & Guilds, Access and Cambridge Technical Diplomas.

International Candidates: school leaving qualifications that are equivalent to A levels/Level 3 and/or college diplomas are accepted from countries worldwide (subject to minimum English Language requirements), details at: www.bangor.ac.uk/international/applying/entryrequirements

Additional entry requirements

Interview
Interview: Applicants who meet the entry requirements will be invited to a portfolio review meeting (interview).

English language requirements

For the most up-to-date information on acceptable English Language proficiency qualifications, please visit our webpage below.https://www.bangor.ac.uk/international/future/englishlanguage

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.

Not enough data available

We are unable to show previous accepted grades for this course. This could be because the course is new, it's a postgraduate course, there isn't enough historical data, or the provider has opted out of sharing their entry grades data for this course - learn more.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

Per year tuition fees

LocationFeeYear

* 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

On 4 December 2024 the Welsh Government confirmed that the tuition fee cap (the maximum tuition fee that regulated providers can charge to certain students on full-time undergraduate courses) will increase to £9,535 per year, subject to changes in the regulations by the Welsh Government.

Tuition fees and scholarship information for International applicants can be found here:

https://www.bangor.ac.uk/international/tuition

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