Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (Central Saint Martins)

This intensive 1-year Level 3 course gives you the chance to explore your creative practice in different art and design disciplines. It will support your progression onto undergraduate studies. The Foundation Diploma is designed to prepare students for specialist undergraduate degrees in art and design subjects. It’s a year of exciting projects, new faces and experiences that will inform your future study, career and creative life.

Foundation is widely considered the best preparation for progression to an undergraduate degree in the creative arts in the UK. On this dynamic course, you’ll try different disciplines from across art and design while being supported to fulfil your creative potential and ambitions.

While your day-to-day study will be based at the UAL Pre-degree Studies site at Lime Grove, you’ll have the chance to attend talks and events at UAL’s Colleges throughout London. You’ll discover each College’s unique approach and get a feel for the range of dynamic creative communities on offer at UAL.