BA (Hons) Textile Design with Professional Placement Year

We provide ambitious students with a dynamic, practical, and theoretical design education, supported by industry networks and directed towards the development of a creative career or advanced research in the textile discipline. Develop your creativity within the broad and complex field of traditional and contemporary textile design, through intellectual enquiry combined with aesthetic sensibility. We offer a strong studio culture in which students are inspired to express their design direction, exercising initiative and personal responsibility.

Individually negotiated student-led lines of enquiry are encouraged and supported by a wide range of thorough contextual underpinning and professional practice, which includes live industry briefs, competitions, forecasting and external exhibition opportunities. Students demonstrate self-direction in extending networks for creating work-based learning opportunities and gaining internships. Textile Design graduates have secured employment in a range of career directions, worked for design studios and design companies, set up their own businesses or developed related careers within retail and the broader fashion and interior industries. Our graduates have also continued with their studies, undertaking MAs, PGCEs or PhDs.

This year provides you with the opportunity to identify, apply for, and secure professional experience, normally comprising one to three placements over a minimum of nine months. Successful completion of this module will demonstrate your ability to secure and sustain graduate-level employment. By completing the module, you'll be entitled to the addition of 'with Professional Placement Year' to your degree title.

A Level - grades BBB-BCC including a Grade B in textiles or Art and Design related subjects. BTEC – Extended Diploma grades from Distinction Distinction Merit (DDM) to Distinction Merit Merit (DMM) in a related subject, or evidence of experience in Textiles or Art and Design. T Levels – grade Merit preferred in a relevant subject. International Baccalaureate – a minimum of 32 points are required with a minimum of grade 5 in an Art subject at Higher Level. IELTS 6.0 - for visa nationals, with a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 in each element. TOEFL iBT- A total of 72, to include a minimum 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking, and 17 in Writing.