BA (Hons) Product and Industrial Design (with Diploma in Professional Studies)

BA Product and Industrial Design will provide you with the intellectual and technical skills required to define your own practice. You will address the need for design in a changing social, environmental and political environment. This course is part of the Product, Ceramic and Industrial Design programme.
BA Product and Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins believes in design as a process-driven activity operating in a broadening range of professional contexts - design consultancy and manufacturing, business and enterprise, strategy and futures, third sector and government. This course will guide you to identify the challenges and problems our world face. You will produce insightful design outcomes that address the current and future needs of people, society and planet.
We know that tomorrow’s designers need to be adaptable, proactive, resilient, curious and ambitious. BA Product and Industrial Design encourage your vision, activism and initiative to develop these designerly competencies. Through critical thinking, conceptual realisation and implementation of products and services, we enable our students to become the changemakers and leaders for the next generation of creatives.
Studying on this course will expose you to a breadth of practical, technical and theoretical domains and skillsets. You can expect to:
Apply industry recognised tools in both studio and industry-led scenarios.
Develop your own path as a creative through the study of design platforms within the expanding product design sector.
Be engaged in a creative environment that encourages you to investigate, discover, question, design, create, make, collaborate, surprise and share in an environment of peers and experts.
Develop a critical mindset to acquire eco literacy, address ethical questions, cultivate critical inquiry, and systems thinking.
Study with a diverse cohort to share broad experiences and ideas that will positively influence your creative skills.
Industry experience and opportunities:
We work actively with external partners from industry, commerce and enterprise, as well as our extensive network of alumni. This provides industry exposure, live design challenges and a programme informed by direct engagement with international design practice.

The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:

120 UCAS tariff points which can be made up of one or a combination of the following accepted full level 3 qualifications:

Three A Levels at grades ABC (preferred subjects include Art, Art and Design, or Design and Technology)

Pass at Foundation Diploma in Art & Design (Level 3 or 4) and 1 A Level at Grade C or above

Distinction, Merit, Merit at BTEC Extended Diploma (preferred subjects include Art, Art and Design, or Design and Technology)

Merit at UAL Extended Diploma

Access to Higher Education Diploma equivalent to 120 UCAS tariff points (preferred subjects include Art, Art and Design, or Design and Technology)

Equivalent EU/International qualifications, such as International Baccalaureate Diploma (26 points)

And five GCSE passes at grade 4 or above (grade A*-C) including English Language, Mathematics and a double award at science, or two separate sciences such as Physics or Chemistry, and one other subject (Art & Design or Design Technology are recommended).

Entry to this course will also be determined by assessment of your portfolio. A very high proportion of successful applicants complete a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design.

APEL - Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning

Exceptionally applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:

Related academic or work experience

The quality of the personal statement

A strong academic or other professional reference

Or a combination of these factors.

Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.