Product Design and Technology BSc (Hons) / MDes
London South Bank UniversitySouthwark Campus, United Kingdom
Course overview
Pioneering the way in Product Design and Technology If you want to become a confident, creative and resilient designer, our BSc/MDes Design and Technology programme is perfect for you! You will graduate as a versatile professional, well-prepared for a diverse range of design and technology career paths. Throughout your studies, we will encourage you to combine creativity with scientific insight to create practical, functional solutions for consumer, industrial, and digital products.
Confident in identifying opportunities, you will design products that excel in technical, functional, aesthetic, and economic criteria. The program covers the entire design process, from concept to engineering, prototyping, manufacturing, and pitching to clients and investors. In the final year of the BSc programme, you’ll exhibit in our end-of-year degree show Product of South Bank.
Discover a round up of the 2024 projects on Dezeen - from a material made of waste crustacean shells to a shower for accessible bathing in developing areas. If you study the MDes programme, you will take an additional year of study on top of the three or four year BSc (Hons) programme. You will elevate your expertise to Chartered Technological Product Designer level, mastering advanced insights into global design challenges and emerging technologies.
With a focus on impactful, human-centered solutions, you will gain essential research skills and collaborate on an interdisciplinary project, applying your knowledge to shape the future of design.
Key highlights
- Covers concept, engineering, prototyping, manufacturing and pitching to investors
- Final-year work exhibited at the Product of South Bank degree show
- Recent graduate projects featured on Dezeen
- Combines creativity with scientific insight across consumer, industrial and digital products
- MDes year develops expertise to Chartered Technological Product Designer level
- MDes includes research skills and an interdisciplinary project
Entry requirements
- GCSE: 4 or above — to include Mathematics
- Additional condition: portfolio — A satisfactory portfolio.
Scholarships
LSBU Pathway Progression Scholarship
£5,000 discount from headline gross tuition fees for the first year of study.
Up to £5,000Sports Scholarships
Sports scholars can receive up to £1500 financial support per annum, as well as assistance in competition travel and entry.
The Cambridge Education Group (CEG) Progression Award
The LSBU Pathway Progression Scholarship offers a £5,000 tuition fee discount for the first year of undergraduate or postgraduate taught study.
Up to £5,000The Global Success Scholarship
The Global Success Scholarship is worth up to £4,000 and awarded to international students to provide them a springboard to kickstart their global career at LSBU.
The Transnational Education (TNE) Partner Award
Value: £5,000 tuition fee discount per academic year
Up to £5,000The Vice Chancellor’s International Merit Award
£2,000 for each academic year.
Up to £2,000
Careers this course leads to
- Product Designer
- Industrial Designer
- Design Engineer
- Chartered Technological Product Designer
- Prototyping Engineer
- Design and Technology Teacher
Cost of study
UK/Home: £9,790 per year | International: £17,400 per year
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to London South Bank University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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