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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 as part of our annual Degree Shows events.
The one year programmes offer direct entry into the final year of a Bachelor’s degree to students who have successfully completed a relevant HND (or...
1 year full-time
The international illustration top-up course will facilitate students to undertake projects with an external professional and international focus, run in collaboration with a range of academic and professional partners. The projects will offer high-quality opportunities to acquire external professional and international perspectives, and further develop collaborative skills and design practice knowledge within a range of international and/or professional contexts.
Whether you’ve already made your decision about what you want to study, or you’re just considering your options, there are lots of ways you can meet us and find out more about student life at Manchester Met.
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Your studies are supported by a department of committed and enthusiastic teachers and researchers, experts in their chosen field.
We often link up with external professionals too, helping to enhance your learning and build valuable connections to the working world.
These typical entry requirements may be subject to change for the 2025/26 academic year. Please check back for further details.
Full-time fee: £9,250 per year. This tuition fee is agreed subject to UK government policy and parliamentary regulation and may increase each academic year in line with inflation or UK government policy for both new and continuing students.
Full-time fee: £21,500 per year. Tuition fees will remain the same for each year of your course providing you complete it in the normal timeframe (no repeat years or breaks in study).
A degree typically comprises 360 credits, a DipHE 240 credits, a CertHE 120 credits, and an integrated masters 480 credits. The tuition fee for the placement year for those courses that offer this option is £1,850, subject to inflationary increases based on government policy and providing you progress through the course in the normal timeframe (no repeat years or breaks in study). The tuition fee for the study year abroad for those courses that offer this option is £1,385, subject to inflationary increases based on government policy and providing you progress through the course in the normal timeframe (no repeat years or breaks in study).
Compulsory estimate: £500
Optional estimate: £2000
Student submissions are often digital but there will be occasions when print is more suitable, however, this can be done cost-effectively by using Art School facilities and Manchester Met Print Services.
Whilst software and access to PC’s and Mac’s are provided on campus, it is recommended that students own a laptop for collating and developing written and visual research, for producing written submissions and presentations, and to facilitate flexible independent working. Subject-specific software is also required.
General use workshop facilities are not charged for, but the use of more specialised processes such as laser cutting and digital printing are charged for, at cost. Materials are provided for workshop inductions, however further materials used when developing individual project work are not provided, but are available for purchase, at cost from Manchester School of Art workshops and Art Material stores.
The Unit X unit may require some Visa, travel or subsistence costs should students choose to undertake a project that requires international travel.
Optional estimate: £1000
There may be travel costs involved in pursuing personal lines of research, and students are encouraged to visit professional design events to inform their personal practice. These might be local/national, such as London Design Week, 100% Design and Clerkenwell Design Week, or international such as Dutch Design Week, and Milan Design Week. As such, costs will be optional, and dependent on the level and scope of each student’s research activity.
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Money MattersIllustration graduates from Manchester Met will be well-prepared to embark on a variety of careers within the creative industries, including freelance/in-house design and illustration, book arts and publishing, advertising, filmmaking, storyboarding, animation, teaching and more. Graduates may also progress on to postgraduate study.
You can apply for the full-time option of this course through UCAS.
UCAS code(s)IIL6
Institution code: M40
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