BA (Hons) Graphic Design (Combined)

... United Kingdom
... University of Chester

Course Overview

Studying with us will offer you the opportunity to be part of a creative community where you can reflect on and react to the changing nature of your discipline, and develop as an individual confident in undertaking any design problem.

You will work in a ‘hands-on’ multidisciplinary learning environment. Our curriculum has been developed to educate in the art and science of visual communication with an emphasis on professional practice and skills acquisition, while also encouraging creative risk-taking and experimentation. Your learning will be supported within a setting that provokes creative experiences, embracing communication design as a social and commercial activity.

Graphic Design at the University of Chester will prepare you for a wide range of careers within and beyond the creative industries. Our graduates are working with employers such as the BBC, Laura Ashley, Mamas & Papas, Music Magpie, Games Workshop, and the NHS, designing user experience and user interfaces, websites, packaging, brand identities, apps, motion graphics, editorial, and interiors.

General Eligibility

GCE A Level:

A minimum of 112 UCAS points from GCE A Levels or equivalent

BTEC:

BTEC Extended Diploma: DMM

T Level:

Merit

Irish/Scottish Highers:

Irish Highers - H3, H3, H3, H3, H4

Scottish Highers - BBBB

International Baccalaureate :

26 points

Access requirements:

Access to HE Diploma, to include 45 credits at Level 3, 30 of which must be at Merit

OCR:

OCR National Extended/Diploma: Merit profile

Extra Information / General Entry Requirements:

A Level General Studies accepted; Welsh Baccalaureate accepted alongside A Levels/BTEC/OCRs

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

  • IELTS Academic: Undergraduate: 6.0 (minimum 5.5 in each band)

Programme Information
...
Course Category

Designing


...
Campus Name

Creative Campus, Kingsway


...
Course Level

Undergraduate


...
Duration

Full-Time, 3 years


...
Available Intake

September


...
IELTS Score

5.5


...
Tuition Fees Range

9250,

13450, (INT)


Subject Recommendations for You
BSc Financial Mathematics
The University of Sheffield - Study Group
Campus

London

Entry Score

6.5

Course Level

Undergraduate

Total Course Fee

23650

Campus

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Entry Score

0.0

Course Level

Undergraduate

Total Course Fee

£ £15,950, £19,300

Campus

Colchester, England

Entry Score

6.0

Course Level

Undergraduate

Total Course Fee

Home full-time: £9,250, International full-time: £18,585

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 Version762msRequest Duration2MBMemory UsageGET course-details/{id?}Route
  • warninglog[23:51:16] LOG.warning: Calling static trait method App\Traits\Service::get_intake_with_next_year is...
  • Booting (20.92ms)time
  • Application (741ms)time
  • 1 x Application (97.25%)
    741ms
    1 x Booting (2.75%)
    20.92ms
    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 duplicated712ms
    • 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` = 'ac49d1cc863d40e19343b9c3aa9ae506' limit 1
      3.81msstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: ac49d1cc863d40e19343b9c3aa9ae506
      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 ('18')
      1.02msstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 18
      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')
      1.03msstaging_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')
      810μsstaging_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')
      730μsstaging_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
      8.91msstaging_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
      690msstaging_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` = '32' limit 1
      1.39msstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#258
      Bindings
      • 0: 32
      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
      900μsstaging_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` = '49' limit 1
      1.05msstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#258
      Bindings
      • 0: 49
      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
      710μsstaging_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` = '79' limit 1
      910μsstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#258
      Bindings
      • 0: 79
      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
      600μsstaging_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
        BEPY5Aksqf77PvFy8lwSSHQhaBVSQ284j7qe5bh6
        current_url
        https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/ac49d1cc863d40e19343b9c3aa9ae506
        _previous
        array:1 [ "url" => "https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/ac49d1cc863d40e19343b9c3aa9ae506" ]
        _flash
        array:2 [ "old" => [] "new" => [] ]
        PHPDEBUGBAR_STACK_DATA
        []
        path_info
        /course-details/ac49d1cc863d40e19343b9c3aa9ae506
        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 => ""HeadlessChrome";v="129", "Not=A?Brand";v="8", "Chromium";v="129"" ] "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 => "Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:51:16 GMT" ] "set-cookie" => array:2 [ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkxxdGc5NFNQcGVKRmdaeENZY29DSGc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiYjgxaXVoMEkrQ1RQcGNNd1BBa2llMU9wSVZ5dmc1N1FHN0ZkSWtMSmtkWTBjYzBsZ2ZEd0tkeTJTd0N4aHNoa0dXR1lJUTRYa1MvZmNndk44M1NNa1l4S0c5a0ZUWVBqSXI4d3BlTDMvbkNzRm5nQVA2Z1JDa2ZPRWhHWUNab1EiLCJtYWMiOiJhMGZiNTlmYTQwMGM3OTU3MjkxZmRiYmE2NjY0OTE3NmRiZGI0Nzc5ZWZlZGEyMzFjYzc1ZDM0YTBjYzc4N2YxIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:51:16 GMT; Max-Age=72000; path=/; domain=.bheuni.io; secureXSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkxxdGc5NFNQcGVKRmdaeENZY29DSGc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiYjgxaXVoMEkrQ1RQcGNNd1BBa2llMU9wSVZ5dmc1N1FHN0ZkSWtMSmtkWTBjYzBsZ2ZEd0tkeTJTd0N4aHNoa0dXR1lJU" 1 => "bhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6IjFDR2gydzdFZDZVaGJRVUFVeUZ3Zmc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiOFl6YW5TdkwyVEhFSDNEWm9zOUtqdHo1WlUrOFV5L0EvUjNuWmUyNzF6YmhDdDA5R1ZCY3F6dlZ6dGVmcTF4QU0vTTFhWTF6WE0rVmVDbWpIdEFEZUlwQWxEdVl0QVd2WFpxZFJsdk1KK2hMU1BHL3poNWViY3IwQUVTTDBWeVAiLCJtYWMiOiJkOWMwNzA5ZDkyOTliNWZmZGQ2YmNlYmJmMzUyZjVmMDY5NWNlOWIyZDYzY2E1ZWI4OTVhMjQ5N2M3YzJkMzkxIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:51:16 GMT; Max-Age=72000; path=/; domain=.bheuni.io; secure; httponlybhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6IjFDR2gydzdFZDZVaGJRVUFVeUZ3Zmc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiOFl6YW5TdkwyVEhFSDNEWm9zOUtqdHo1WlUrOFV5L0EvUjNuWmUyNzF6YmhDdDA5R1ZCY3F6dlZ6dGVmcTF4QU0v" ] "Set-Cookie" => array:2 [ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkxxdGc5NFNQcGVKRmdaeENZY29DSGc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiYjgxaXVoMEkrQ1RQcGNNd1BBa2llMU9wSVZ5dmc1N1FHN0ZkSWtMSmtkWTBjYzBsZ2ZEd0tkeTJTd0N4aHNoa0dXR1lJUTRYa1MvZmNndk44M1NNa1l4S0c5a0ZUWVBqSXI4d3BlTDMvbkNzRm5nQVA2Z1JDa2ZPRWhHWUNab1EiLCJtYWMiOiJhMGZiNTlmYTQwMGM3OTU3MjkxZmRiYmE2NjY0OTE3NmRiZGI0Nzc5ZWZlZGEyMzFjYzc1ZDM0YTBjYzc4N2YxIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Thu, 24-Apr-2025 19:51:16 GMT; domain=.bheuni.io; path=/; secureXSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkxxdGc5NFNQcGVKRmdaeENZY29DSGc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiYjgxaXVoMEkrQ1RQcGNNd1BBa2llMU9wSVZ5dmc1N1FHN0ZkSWtMSmtkWTBjYzBsZ2ZEd0tkeTJTd0N4aHNoa0dXR1lJU" 1 => "bhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6IjFDR2gydzdFZDZVaGJRVUFVeUZ3Zmc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiOFl6YW5TdkwyVEhFSDNEWm9zOUtqdHo1WlUrOFV5L0EvUjNuWmUyNzF6YmhDdDA5R1ZCY3F6dlZ6dGVmcTF4QU0vTTFhWTF6WE0rVmVDbWpIdEFEZUlwQWxEdVl0QVd2WFpxZFJsdk1KK2hMU1BHL3poNWViY3IwQUVTTDBWeVAiLCJtYWMiOiJkOWMwNzA5ZDkyOTliNWZmZGQ2YmNlYmJmMzUyZjVmMDY5NWNlOWIyZDYzY2E1ZWI4OTVhMjQ5N2M3YzJkMzkxIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Thu, 24-Apr-2025 19:51:16 GMT; domain=.bheuni.io; path=/; secure; httponlybhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6IjFDR2gydzdFZDZVaGJRVUFVeUZ3Zmc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiOFl6YW5TdkwyVEhFSDNEWm9zOUtqdHo1WlUrOFV5L0EvUjNuWmUyNzF6YmhDdDA5R1ZCY3F6dlZ6dGVmcTF4QU0v" ] ]
        session_attributes
        0 of 0
        array:5 [ "_token" => "BEPY5Aksqf77PvFy8lwSSHQhaBVSQ284j7qe5bh6" "current_url" => "https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/ac49d1cc863d40e19343b9c3aa9ae506" "_previous" => array:1 [ "url" => "https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/ac49d1cc863d40e19343b9c3aa9ae506" ] "_flash" => array:2 [ "old" => [] "new" => [] ] "PHPDEBUGBAR_STACK_DATA" => [] ]
        ClearShow all
        Date ↕MethodURLData
        #12025-04-23 23:51:16GET/course-details/ac49d1cc863d40e19343b9c3aa9ae506141315