Design at Brunel is all about realising fantastic ideas in the real world. Our Product Design Engineering BSc degree is for creative thinkers who are also comfortable with mathematics and who enjoy deeper analysis of functional and technical design challenges, principally focused on industrially-manufactured products. The course spans design and engineering, meaning you can develop products that both look good and work well.
There is a lot of project-based learning to test your skills and you’ll see the outcome of your design from concept to making the actual product. This means you’ll be able to build a great portfolio of your best-quality projects, academic and industry briefs, and case studies, during your studies.
You’ll have workshop training and will use industry-standard equipment and software to develop quality hands-on skills to become a maker. Independent access is available to modern facilities that include dedicated design studios, digital sketching, extensive prototyping workshops, and electronics and digital fabrication labs. The practical knowledge you gain is transferable to industry and provides a head start for your future career as a designer and design making in the modern world.
Our product design engineering course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) and can be studied full-time over three years, or four years with a placement year.
The placement year helps you to prepare for the world of work and you’ll have a year’s worth of invaluable professional experience when you graduate. Our students have worked in both small innovation start-ups and multinational organisations such as Dyson, Jaguar Land Rover, Philips, Procter & Gamble, and Reckitt Benckiser. Some take advantage of exchange programmes that can take them to universities in Europe and the USA.
The first two years contain a balanced blend of creative and technical subjects and mechanics and electronics are taught at a theoretical level. In your final year, you move on to more specialised areas and you’ll become familiar with computer aided design, engineering and manufacturing software, applying these methods and tools to design practice. Your major project is likely to include a functional prototype incorporating mechanics and/or electronics.
GCE A-level ABB, including at least Grade B in Design and Technology, Product Design, Art ,or Art and Design, and at least grade B Maths or Physics (General Studies not accepted).
Five GCSEs at grade C or grade 4 and above are also required, to include Maths and English Language.
Entry criteria are subject to review and change each academic year.
This MA prepares students from design and other creative disciplines to apply their knowledge and skills in the branding domain.
The course develops your high-level skills and creative thinking, helping you learn how to clearly communicate strategies for successful brand building, futures forecasting and change management.
During the course you will also gain valuable industry insight from design and branding professionals who are part of Brunel’s extensive network of industry contacts. You will complete an individual design project, supported by personal supervision, and complete a final year dissertation on your specialist subject of choice.
Entry criteria are subject to review and change each academic year.
All organisations use design, but few master its use strategically. This course provides the skills and knowledge to students wishing to enter this exciting and rewarding field of endeavour.
We were one of the first Masters programmes, globally, that sought to explain the relationship between branding and design and the importance of applying a strategic approach using design thinking, design methods and process. Today we remain a unique course internationally and attract students from all over the world, from different creative and design backgrounds, both with one purpose - to become masters of design strategy.
By the time you graduate you will be equipped to:
This unique international, multi-disciplinary course will develop design managers and leaders as catalysts for strategic innovation and change.
The programme comprises compulsory modules of theoretical and analytical topics in areas such as innovation, creativity, team-working and leadership. Special features include analytical design exercises, multimedia educational material, research methods, case studies, design audits and international placements.
The aim of the course is to create closer links between design and industry and to widen the horizons of design management students, enabling you to make informed reference to the world beyond design – to users, the market, new technology, economics, politics, law and the global environment.
Entry criteria are subject to review and change each academic year.
Our Integrated Product Design MSc degree focuses on the design of innovative products, emphasising the balance between the interest of users, industry, society and the environment. It covers the whole design process, integrating all aspects relevant to product development - technology, management, aesthetics, sustainability, ergonomics, marketing, business and design methods - to produce highly qualified and sought after designers able to cope with the challenges the global economy presents.
You’ll have access to modern facilities that include a dedicated master’s design studio and extensive prototyping workshops. The practical knowledge you gain is transferable to industry and provides you with a comprehensive skillset for global product and services design research and development.
Our integrated product design course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) and is studied full-time over one year.
We encourage you to make use of our good links with industrial colleagues and undertake an optional industrial placement as part of your dissertation project over the summer. A placement gives you the opportunity to put what you’ve learnt into practice, and to apply it to a real working environment.
Made in Brunel is a unique, student-led initiative that showcases our design talent at its finest. Each year our students run a series of industry and community events leading up to the Made in Brunel exhibition. This annual showcase is a highlight of the London design calendar and promotes the incredible work our students produce to the creative community, and is your chance to network with key design professionals.
If you are interested in turning a product or technology idea into a business after your postgraduate studies, we are in partnership with the Central Research Laboratory (CRL), a design incubator for start-ups. You’ll have access to meeting rooms and work space as well as prototyping facilities. A team of in-house professionals will guide and support you at each stage and a number of our previous entrepreneurial students have successfully commercialised their products.
Entry criteria are subject to review and change each academic year.
Brunel's BSc in Digital Design is an updated programme that builds on our original Multimedia Design and Technology BSc – recognised as one of the first and most successful creative digital design courses in the UK.
The course was revised and renamed in 2014 to reflect new course content, facilities, and teaching methods after dialogue with industry and employers.
This unique multidisciplinary degree focuses on the intersection of the arts and sciences. As a result of this vivid interaction, a stream of new ideas and new forms of creativity can be generated. Our courses combine ideas from digital technologies with those of creative design.
This is an intensive, intellectually and creatively challenging programme with a very strong practical component. It is focused on giving you the knowledge and practical and analytical skills to prepare you for employment in creative roles within the digital industry.
GCE A-level BBB, to include a creative subject. (General Studies not accepted).
BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma DDD in Art and Design, Computing, Creative Digital Media Production, IT, Music, Music Technology, Performing Arts or Production Arts.
BTEC Level 3 Diploma DD in Art and Design, Computing, Creative Digital Media Production, IT, Music, Music Technology, Performing Arts or Production Arts AND an A-Level at grade B in a subject from the list.
BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma D in any subject AND A-Levels grade BB to include one creative subject.
International Baccalaureate Diploma 30 points to include Higher Level Grade 5 in one creative subject.
Five GCSEs at grade C or grade 4 and above are also required, to include Maths and English Language.
Entry criteria are subject to review and change each academic year.
The Digital Design programme aims to produce graduates who can make an immediate contribution to the digital media revolution, whether as employees, freelancers or entrepreneurs.
You should be someone who appreciates the role of communication in human life; takes pride and care in how you organise and present your work, and is fascinated by technology and its creative potential.
This degree is right for you if you are creative, intelligent and ambitious, and if you want to be part of the digital information age.
The course assumes no specific educational subject background, but does require an interest in IT combined with creative design flair.
The exciting world of digital media design needs innovative, imaginative professionals who are fluent users of emerging technologies and tools – and this course aims to arm creative designers with these cutting edge skills.
Brunel’s new Visual Effects and Motion Graphics* programme develops students’ creative design, technological skills and conceptual knowledge – to meet the needs of an ever-evolving, technologically demanding media landscape.
There are few other programmes in the UK that aim to develop both the technological and aesthetic ingenuity required for the visual effects and motion graphics sector, within the entertainment and creative industries.
*This course replaces Brunel’s Broadcast Media Design and Technology course to reflect new industry skills requirements and to gain accreditation by Creative Skillset.
GCE A-level BBB, including a creative subject. (General Studies not accepted).
BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma DDD in Art and Design, Computing, Creative Digital Media Production, IT, Music, Music Technology, Performing Arts or Production Arts.
BTEC Level 3 Diploma DD in Art and Design, Computing, Creative Digital Media Production, IT, Music, Music Technology, Performing Arts or Production Arts, AND an A-Level at grade B from the list.
BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma D in any subject with A-Levels grade BB to include one creative subject.
International Baccalaureate Diploma 30 points, to include Higher Level grade 5 in one creative subject.
Access to Higher Education Diploma Complete and pass a related Access course with 45 credits at Level 3 and with Merit or higher in all units.
Five GCSEs at grade C or grade 4 and above are also required, to include Maths and English Language.
Entry criteria are subject to review and change each academic year.
The last five years has seen a shift in the way TV and film is recorded, produced, screened and viewed – creating a need for a new type of creative technologist.This BSc in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics will develop your creative design, production, implementation, and post-production skills and processes needed for the various phases of modern digital TV, video and filmmaking and workflow.
Roles that graduates can move into include advanced titling artists, motion graphics designers, visual effects experts and interactive technologists for film and video, TV, post-production and virtual production environments.
You will be able to produce high quality media pieces and create post-production visual effects and motion graphics solutions, suitable for any VFX and motion design company.
The course looks at the influence of the internet and emerging technologies which have changed the way TV and film are recorded, produced, screened and viewed. These developments as well as the rapid growth of interactive and 3D TV have resulted in the need for a new type of creative technologist, while the increase in the sophistication of visual effects and post-production in films, TV and advertisements has increased demand for talented media designers.
The course allows you to specialise and to match your studies to your own particular interest, while maintaining a broad approach.
This course offers a dynamic programme to equip graduates for creative roles in the digital branding industry – at executive, strategic and managerial levels.
A unique blend of digital design and technology in the context of branding, this MSc aims to fill a gap, by developing your knowledge and practical experience of both digital design and branding concepts.
You will also gain a deep understanding of digital media technologies and research methods, and complete a dissertation that involves the full design cycle.
Entry criteria are subject to review and change each academic year.
Digital media and the internet are having a big impact in the way brands behave, interact and speak.
As these technologies continue to develop in terms of functionality, availability and speed, even greater opportunities will arise for those individuals who are able to combine traditional marketing insight with a true understanding of digital media, capturing these benefits and articulating them at both an academic and vocational level.
This course provides a unique mix of multimedia and interaction design processes, design of 3D virtual reality and animation media, AV media and effects, and 3D media combined with real and virtual studio and on-location multimedia creation.
It not only focuses on the creative art and design aspects of digital media, but also on the theory and practice of the technical tools and techniques required for creating 3D, interactive real and virtual reality media through the development of design and technology knowledge, understanding and skills.
Entry criteria are subject to review and change each academic year.
The MSc programme in Advanced Multimedia Design and 3D Technologies aims to develop a thorough knowledge of the design principles and techniques required for the design of combined real and virtual interactive and 3D multimedia, and an appreciation of the current research directions and opportunities that are available in this field of research.
On this course you will:
The foundation year is designed to help you progress to a challenging and exciting career in economics and finance. Our carefully designed curriculum is particularly suitable for those who want to change direction, perhaps not having taken A-levels in mathematics or economics, and for mature applicants returning to study. You will quickly find that willingness to learn and determination is more important than prior knowledge.
The foundation year is hosted by the Department of Mathematics, to reflect the essential role of mathematics in your subsequent studies. Once you have successfully completed your foundation year with the grades needed for your chosen degree course in the Economics & Finance Department, you progress directly into Level 1 of that degree – there’s no need to re-apply via UCAS.
We look forward to helping you develop your learning and setting you firmly on the way to your chosen career.
In addition 5 GCSEs at grade C or above including Mathematics and English are required.
Please check our Admissions pages for more information on other factors we use to assess applicants as well as our full GCSE requirements and accepted equivalencies in place of GCSEs.
Entry criteria are subject to review and change each academic year.
This specialist programme will teach you the prerequisite skills in economics and finance that are needed for undergraduate degrees.
Brunel University London’s impact on the future wages of its graduates is among the best in the country compared to other universities, according to a new analysis of government data by The Economist (2017).
Economics and Mathematics with an Integrated Foundation Year provides an introduction to a variety of exciting disciplines in economics.
All the degree courses below are linked to Economics and Mathematics with an Integrated Foundation Year:-
The foundation year will help you clarify where your interests lie.
Economics courses at Brunel combine an understanding of theory with the practical skills necessary to apply your knowledge to a business, industrial, financial or government environment. It is this combination, together with a strong background in finance, that distinguishes Brunel’s courses from other economics degrees.
This programme allows you to study the fundamental analytical techniques of micro and macroeconomics, while also developing knowledge and understanding of the core concepts and issues in corporate policy, finance and investment. Initial emphasis is on both theory and practical applications. In your final year you have the option to choose between more specialist modules in economics or finance. The Economics and Business Finance degree equips you with the core theoretical and practical skills necessary to understand and analyse economic and corporate financing and investment decisions in the business world. It also prepares you for a variety of potential careers including management consultancy, business analysis and economic forecasting.
GCE A-level BBB (all subjects considered excluding General Studies).
A minimum of five GCSEs are required, including GCSE Mathematics grade B or grade 5 and GCSE English grade C or grade 4.
Entry criteria are subject to review and change each academic year.