Graphic Communication BA (Hons)
West Suffolk College
Key Course Facts
Salary
Salary of all UK Graduates of
15 months after graduation | 3 years after graduation | 5 years after graduation | |
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Median salary | £22025 | £20113 | £23568 |
25-75 percentile range | £19981 - £25071 | £15144 - £24676 | £17604 - £29974 |
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Course Description
BA (Hons) Graphic Communication will prepare you for a range of professional opportunities in fields such as advertising, branding, publishing, illustration and digital communication. You will engage in work that explores traditional formats as well as emerging technologies such as augmented and virtual reality as well as UX design, web design and motion graphics.
The course provides an inspiring, challenging course of study that will equip you to develop innovative, creative, communicative, problem solving, time management and decision-making abilities. We want to see you challenge design orthodoxy and pre-conceptions and to appreciate the possibilities of contemporary communication technologies across multiple media channels.
There is a strong emphasis on professional skills development and employability. The programme explicitly seeks to develop specific skills and competences to meet local, regional and national employer’s needs to prepare you to undertake roles at higher technician and professional levels. Much learning is concerned with the professional understanding and orientation of commercial design briefs and individually determined self-initiated projects. This is expressed through the assembly of a design portfolio and a public exhibition of work through a degree show at the end of course.
Entry Requirements / Admissions
Costs
Tuition Fees Graphic Communication BA (Hons)
EU | £8500 | year 1 |
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Channel Islands | £8500 | year 1 |
England UK | £8500 | year 1 |
Northern Ireland | £8500 | year 1 |
Scotland | £8500 | year 1 |
Wales | £8500 | year 1 |
Additional fee information
There are associated costs for this course which will not be covered in the Course Fees and are dependent on your chosen specialist medium.
**These include: **
Sketchbooks and Spiral Display Book
Specialist Digital Equipment to use outside of the studio (such as lap top and graphic design suites).
We advise you to invest in your own portable hard-drive or cloud subscriptions.
We encourage you to consider investing in professional printing for your portfolio as well as frames and mounts for individual displays.
We arrange optional enhancement trips with costs dependent on location.
Average student cost of living in the UK
Rent | £518 |
Water, gas electricity, internet (at home) | £50 |
Supermarket shopping | £81 |
Clothing | £35 |
Eating out | £33 |
Alcohol | £27 |
Takeaways / food deliveries | £30 |
Going out / entertainment (excl.alcohol, food) | £24 |
Holidays and weekend trips | £78 |
Transport within city | £17 |
Self-care / sports | £20 |
Stationary / books | £13 |
Mobile phone / internet | £13 |
Cable TV / streaming | £7 |
Insurance | £51 |
Other | £95 |
Average student cost of living | £1092 |
London costs approx 34% more than average, mainly due to rent being 67% higher than average of other cities. For students staying in student halls, costs of water, gas, electricity, wifi are generally included in the rental. Students in smaller cities where accommodation is in walking/biking distance transport costs tend to be significantly smaller.
How to apply
Application deadline:
January 1, 2025
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Possible Entry Points:
- year 1 (Default entry point)
About West Suffolk College
West Suffolk College is an institution that provides mainly Further Education level courses and programmes, operating from numerous campus sites and training centres. The main campus site for academic study is known as the Gateway Building, which can be found in Bury St Edmunds, in the English county of Suffolk. Construction and STEM students make use of the state-of-the-art Milburn Centre and STEM Innovation Campus, respectively.
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Student composition of West Suffolk College
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Total number of students enrolled at West Suffolk College by level Academic year - Full-time equivalent student enrollments published by Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) on February 2022
- undergraduates:
- postgraduates:
- Total:
- 0
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