
International Illustration (Top Up)
Manchester Metropolitan UniversityManchester, United Kingdom
Course overview
The BA (Hons) International Illustration top-up will support you to think innovatively and respond to global trends in design. The course will expand your critical and conceptual thinking and encourage an understanding of wider global and creative professional design practice, whilst enabling you to develop an individual positioning for your professional design practice. Collaboration is at the heart of the course - you will undertake design practice modules with current final year students, work on projects with external industry and academic research partners, and exhibit your final projects
Key highlights
- Design practice modules shared with current final year students
- Projects with external industry and academic research partners
- Exhibit your final projects publicly
- Responds to global trends in design and professional practice
- Develop an individual positioning for your professional design practice
- Expands critical and conceptual thinking in illustration
Entry requirements
- Additional condition: portfolio — We will ask for a portfolio of your work as part of your application.
Scholarships
International Undergraduate Scholarships
£2,000 for each year of your degree.
Up to £2,000Sanctuary Scholarship
Sports Scholarship
The total package is worth up to £10,000 per year. Additional support is available for exceptional applicants.
Vice-Chancellor’s International Regional Scholarship
Value: 50% of tuition fees in the first year of study.
Up to 50% of fees
Careers this course leads to
- Illustrator
- Freelance illustrator
- Book illustrator
- Editorial illustrator
- Concept artist
- Graphic designer
Cost of study
UK/Home: £9,535 per year | International: £21,500 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 Manchester Metropolitan University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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