BA (Hons) Art and Design

... United Kingdom
... University of Bedfordshire

Course Overview

This popular course offers you the opportunity to develop the skills you need to become an Art and Design professional in a supportive community environment. You will work with live briefs, public projects and industry partners including Luton Culture, Departure Lounge Gallery, The Hat Factory and MK Gallery.

Offering a balance of theory and practice, our BA (Hons) Art and Design ensures you develop a range of visual and creative skills while you gain insights into critical theory, the importance of context and contemporary professional practice. If you are unsure of your specialist field, it gives you the opportunity to experience several creative pathways including Art and Design practices; community arts; curating; arts management; arts advocacy; and further study towards a career working in art and design education.

You develop essential skills and knowledge in a variety of 2D, 3D, digital and time-based practices, and engage in critical aesthetic and conceptual debates. You explore visual, social, cultural, environmental and political diversity, expressed through your developing Art and Design practice.

You will become proficient in presenting work to professional standards, including project production, and will develop the skills needed to build relationships in the creative community including networking, exhibiting, and marketing.

General Eligibility

We will consider you as an individual and take into account all elements of your application, not just your qualifications. We are looking for breadth and depth in your current studies and enthusiasm for the subject you wish to study.

UCAS Tariff Points

  • At least 80 points with 64 points from 2 A-level passes at C or above

  • At least 80 points with 64 from Merit Merit in two BTEC Subsidiary Diplomas or one BTEC Diploma

  • At least 80 points with Merit Merit Pass in the BTEC Extended Diploma

  • A completed Access to Higher Education Diploma Equivalent qualifications such as Irish Leaving Certificate, OCR Nationals, International Baccalaureate and CACHE Level 3 awards.

You can work out how many UCAS points your qualifications are worth with the UCAS tariff calculator

Check Your Country page to confirm that your local qualifications are suitable or contact your International Admissions Team

Part Time Work Details

The 20 hours is total hours. It is not per job. If you hold multiple part-time jobs then the total hours of all the work you are doing added together.

Language Requirement

  • English language requirements

    The University accepts the following qualification as satisfying the English Language requirements for entry to a Bachelor or Master's degree.

    UKVI Academic IELTS overall score of 6.0 with minimum 5.5 in each element

    Please note: some courses may require higher levels of English – the exact criteria will be specified in the course descriptions

Programme Information
...
Course Category

Designing


...
Campus Name

University Square Campus, Luton


...
Course Level

Undergraduate


...
Duration

Full-time, 3 years


...
Available Intake

February


...
IELTS Score

6.0


...
Tuition Fees Range

Home full-time: £9,250, International full-time: £13,500,


Subject Recommendations for You
BENG (HONS) Electronics and Robotics
Anglia Ruskin University
Campus

Cambridge, Chalmsford & Peterborough

Entry Score

6.0

Course Level

Undergraduate

Total Course Fee

£ £9,250, £13,900

BSc (Hons) Mathematics with Languages
University of Liverpool
Campus

Liverpool, England.

Entry Score

6.0

Course Level

Undergraduate

Total Course Fee

£ 23300

BSc Biochemistry / Biotechnology (Co-op)
Wilfrid Laurier University
Campus

Multiple, Ontario

Entry Score

7.0

Course Level

Undergraduate

Total Course Fee

27860

Discover Your Next Read
...
Why you will go UK for better study ? Learn more from this blog...
...
Why you will go UK for better study ? Learn more from this blog...
Request history8.1.11PHP Version1.85sRequest Duration2MBMemory UsageGET course-details/{id?}Route
  • warninglog[12:45:36] LOG.warning: Calling static trait method App\Traits\Service::get_intake_with_next_year is...
  • Booting (19.75ms)time
  • Application (1.83s)time
  • 1 x Application (98.93%)
    1.83s
    1 x Booting (1.07%)
    19.75ms
    4 templates were rendered
    • course-detailscourse-details.blade.php#?blade
    • ajax.homejshomejs.blade.php#?blade
    • layouts.appapp.blade.php#?blade
    • ajax.menusearchjsmenusearchjs.blade.php#?blade
    uri
    GET course-details/{id?}
    middleware
    web
    controller
    App\Http\Controllers\CourseController@details
    namespace
    prefix
    where
    file
    app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:130-145
    13 statements were executed, 3 of which were duplicates, 10 unique. Show only duplicated1.79s
    • Connection Establishedstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Backtrace
      • 15. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 16. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 17. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 18. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 19. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `courses` where `id` = '6a833c375a764f48a9a5284e28aaf81d' limit 1
      2.8msstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 6a833c375a764f48a9a5284e28aaf81d
      Backtrace
      • 16. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 17. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 18. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 19. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 20. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `institutes` where `institutes`.`id` in ('52')
      1.09msstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 52
      Backtrace
      • 21. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 22. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 23. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `represent_countries` where `represent_countries`.`id` in ('1')
      990μsstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 1
      Backtrace
      • 26. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 28. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 29. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 30. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `countries` where `countries`.`id` in ('235')
      780μsstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 235
      Backtrace
      • 31. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 32. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 33. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 34. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 35. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select `id`, `course_level_name` from `course_levels` where `course_levels`.`id` in ('1')
      700μsstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 1
      Backtrace
      • 21. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 22. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 23. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `categories` where `categories`.`id` in ('64') order by `category_name` asc
      780μsstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 64
      Backtrace
      • 21. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 22. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 23. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `courses` where `course_level_id` = '1' order by RAND() limit 3
      1.72sstaging_liveCourseController.php#138
      Bindings
      • 0: 1
      Backtrace
      • 15. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:138
      • 16. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 17. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 18. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 19. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `institutes` where `institutes`.`id` = '2' limit 1
      29.76msstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#258
      Bindings
      • 0: 2
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:258
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select `id`, `course_level_name` from `course_levels` where `course_levels`.`id` = '1' limit 1
      610μsstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#274
      Bindings
      • 0: 1
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:274
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select * from `institutes` where `institutes`.`id` = '101' limit 1
      22.95msstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#258
      Bindings
      • 0: 101
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:258
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select `id`, `course_level_name` from `course_levels` where `course_levels`.`id` = '1' limit 1
      410μsstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#274
      Bindings
      • 0: 1
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:274
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select * from `institutes` where `institutes`.`id` = '83f0125762574c9a91378b6c73e9d648' limit 1
      1.27msstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#258
      Bindings
      • 0: 83f0125762574c9a91378b6c73e9d648
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:258
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select `id`, `course_level_name` from `course_levels` where `course_levels`.`id` = '1' limit 1
      1.78msstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#274
      Bindings
      • 0: 1
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:274
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    App\Models\Course
    4Course.php#?
    App\Models\Institute
    4Institute.php#?
    App\Models\CourseLevel
    4CourseLevel.php#?
    App\Models\RepresentCountry
    1RepresentCountry.php#?
    App\Models\Country
    1Country.php#?
    App\Models\Category
    1Category.php#?
        _token
        DewqHxDTmDtaKqTUC9RwAQ8ZwcoBisBIQnVErFFO
        current_url
        https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/6a833c375a764f48a9a5284e28aaf81d
        _previous
        array:1 [ "url" => "https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/6a833c375a764f48a9a5284e28aaf81d" ]
        _flash
        array:2 [ "old" => [] "new" => [] ]
        PHPDEBUGBAR_STACK_DATA
        []
        path_info
        /course-details/6a833c375a764f48a9a5284e28aaf81d
        status_code
        200
        
        status_text
        OK
        format
        html
        content_type
        text/html; charset=UTF-8
        request_query
        []
        
        request_request
        []
        
        request_headers
        0 of 0
        array:15 [ "priority" => array:1 [ 0 => "u=0, i" ] "accept-encoding" => array:1 [ 0 => "gzip, deflate, br, zstd" ] "sec-fetch-dest" => array:1 [ 0 => "document" ] "sec-fetch-user" => array:1 [ 0 => "?1" ] "sec-fetch-mode" => array:1 [ 0 => "navigate" ] "sec-fetch-site" => array:1 [ 0 => "none" ] "accept" => array:1 [ 0 => "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7" ] "user-agent" => array:1 [ 0 => "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)" ] "upgrade-insecure-requests" => array:1 [ 0 => "1" ] "sec-ch-ua-platform" => array:1 [ 0 => ""Windows"" ] "sec-ch-ua-mobile" => array:1 [ 0 => "?0" ] "sec-ch-ua" => array:1 [ 0 => ""Chromium";v="130", "HeadlessChrome";v="130", "Not?A_Brand";v="99"" ] "cache-control" => array:1 [ 0 => "no-cache" ] "pragma" => array:1 [ 0 => "no-cache" ] "host" => array:1 [ 0 => "staging.bheuni.io" ] ]
        request_cookies
        []
        
        response_headers
        0 of 0
        array:5 [ "content-type" => array:1 [ 0 => "text/html; charset=UTF-8" ] "cache-control" => array:1 [ 0 => "no-cache, private" ] "date" => array:1 [ 0 => "Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:45:36 GMT" ] "set-cookie" => array:2 [ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkEzRlVEL2ltY2ZzYlVOYUpKVzRPa1E9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiODFwSFB6dUNIalVlNUxWNm12TFBqOUc4WVFRNUJHQnowSEpRbmhkWmNnQVJlTWFNSGQxY2FoS3ROTmJyM3BlWkJpODhzMzJJMGNzVWNyNDQxMVUwMC9tYkxqeW5kZE95Qm16bGg2SmlQTW1WVDYzcVU5VE5iWWdlODBwMG9JNUsiLCJtYWMiOiI0MWRjZGQ5ZmM4NTFhMDAyOGQwODQwYjlkZDYzZWM5ODYxYjEwNDQ1NGEwYTUwYTNiZmY1ODI5NTI5ZjA3ZDYzIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:45:36 GMT; Max-Age=72000; path=/; domain=.bheuni.io; secureXSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkEzRlVEL2ltY2ZzYlVOYUpKVzRPa1E9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiODFwSFB6dUNIalVlNUxWNm12TFBqOUc4WVFRNUJHQnowSEpRbmhkWmNnQVJlTWFNSGQxY2FoS3ROTmJyM3BlWkJpODhzM" 1 => "bhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6IjBPZjFhUjlRV1NNNjhnVzZ1VU5zTWc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiT213MGVRVTFZSk81MUo3Yi9UWEJIcUdZckpvK0cyS0FYSEhObXFBRVY4YVJLMk9INHNac3BWdVBxWnk5a2k3VTlFZGJqRzhUbTJabXc5MG5HWUdyZCtERjlHOERETS9lSE81MDcvR1BrU2EzOWtEWUpZLzFLRnNTOTNpOVVEeWEiLCJtYWMiOiIxYjEyMjg0NGQwMGE1ZWZmMWQ3Yzg4MDM1ZmMzNGFlODNiN2RlZjlmNTQyNjhmMDVlZTBhZmI4ZWYwNjQ3MzJiIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:45:36 GMT; Max-Age=72000; path=/; domain=.bheuni.io; secure; httponlybhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6IjBPZjFhUjlRV1NNNjhnVzZ1VU5zTWc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiT213MGVRVTFZSk81MUo3Yi9UWEJIcUdZckpvK0cyS0FYSEhObXFBRVY4YVJLMk9INHNac3BWdVBxWnk5a2k3VTlF" ] "Set-Cookie" => array:2 [ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkEzRlVEL2ltY2ZzYlVOYUpKVzRPa1E9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiODFwSFB6dUNIalVlNUxWNm12TFBqOUc4WVFRNUJHQnowSEpRbmhkWmNnQVJlTWFNSGQxY2FoS3ROTmJyM3BlWkJpODhzMzJJMGNzVWNyNDQxMVUwMC9tYkxqeW5kZE95Qm16bGg2SmlQTW1WVDYzcVU5VE5iWWdlODBwMG9JNUsiLCJtYWMiOiI0MWRjZGQ5ZmM4NTFhMDAyOGQwODQwYjlkZDYzZWM5ODYxYjEwNDQ1NGEwYTUwYTNiZmY1ODI5NTI5ZjA3ZDYzIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Wed, 09-Jul-2025 08:45:36 GMT; domain=.bheuni.io; path=/; secureXSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkEzRlVEL2ltY2ZzYlVOYUpKVzRPa1E9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiODFwSFB6dUNIalVlNUxWNm12TFBqOUc4WVFRNUJHQnowSEpRbmhkWmNnQVJlTWFNSGQxY2FoS3ROTmJyM3BlWkJpODhzM" 1 => "bhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6IjBPZjFhUjlRV1NNNjhnVzZ1VU5zTWc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiT213MGVRVTFZSk81MUo3Yi9UWEJIcUdZckpvK0cyS0FYSEhObXFBRVY4YVJLMk9INHNac3BWdVBxWnk5a2k3VTlFZGJqRzhUbTJabXc5MG5HWUdyZCtERjlHOERETS9lSE81MDcvR1BrU2EzOWtEWUpZLzFLRnNTOTNpOVVEeWEiLCJtYWMiOiIxYjEyMjg0NGQwMGE1ZWZmMWQ3Yzg4MDM1ZmMzNGFlODNiN2RlZjlmNTQyNjhmMDVlZTBhZmI4ZWYwNjQ3MzJiIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Wed, 09-Jul-2025 08:45:36 GMT; domain=.bheuni.io; path=/; secure; httponlybhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6IjBPZjFhUjlRV1NNNjhnVzZ1VU5zTWc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiT213MGVRVTFZSk81MUo3Yi9UWEJIcUdZckpvK0cyS0FYSEhObXFBRVY4YVJLMk9INHNac3BWdVBxWnk5a2k3VTlF" ] ]
        session_attributes
        0 of 0
        array:5 [ "_token" => "DewqHxDTmDtaKqTUC9RwAQ8ZwcoBisBIQnVErFFO" "current_url" => "https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/6a833c375a764f48a9a5284e28aaf81d" "_previous" => array:1 [ "url" => "https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/6a833c375a764f48a9a5284e28aaf81d" ] "_flash" => array:2 [ "old" => [] "new" => [] ] "PHPDEBUGBAR_STACK_DATA" => [] ]
        ClearShow all
        Date ↕MethodURLData
        #12025-07-08 12:45:36GET/course-details/6a833c375a764f48a9a5284e28aaf81d141315