
BA (Hons) Advertising and Brand Design

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Course overview
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Starts: Sept 2026
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Duration: 3 years
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Mode: Full time
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UCAS code: NW52
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Fees: UK: £9,535 (2025/26) / International: £17,000 (2025/26)
Ideal for...bold thinking graphic designers and visual communicators, who aspire to tell brand stories that change perception and influence behaviour.
Build brands, create change.
This award-winning course connects strategic thinking and design, investigating emerging practices at the intersection of advertising and branding. Driven by insights, our students develop impactful brand communication, social media content, and advertising campaigns.
(BA Hons) Advertising and Brand Design will create opportunities to explore graphic design, strategy, branding, copywriting and art direction. Work with industry partners, brands, and emerging technologies and take your place within one of the most exciting sectors of the UK creative economy.
Student work
Why study this Advertising and Brand Design degree?
- Be guided by industry professionals throughout your study
- Become a brand storyteller
- Fantastic industry links; tap into opportunities with creative agencies and studios such as Sky, Bulletproof and Neverland
- Boost employability in a large, diverse and ever-changing industry
- Upskill in pitching, team working and project management
- Explore cutting-edge digital and communication technologies
- Develop a professional portfolio through a carefully structured learning journey.
Award-winning students
In the last seven years, our students have won 21 Pencils in the prestigious D&AD New Blood Awards, including two much-coveted White Pencils. They have won 19 Creative Conscience Awards and have been shortlisted for professional awards including D&AD and The Drum Creative Futures.
Become a brand storyteller
Our students learn with industry from day one, engaging with professional practice throughout the course. You’ll be given the opportunity to work with industry across live briefs, studio visits, portfolio reviews, lectures, workshops, mentorship, and work-based learning from leading industry professionals and our alumni network. In the last six years we have worked with global brands like Sky, Innocent, Kopparberg and leading agencies and studios such as Uncommon, TBWA, Bulletproof, JKR, The Electric Theatre Collective, DNCO, Neverland, Dentsu, Stormbrands, Mr Bailey @concept Kicks and Studio Blup.
This advertising and branding degree investigates how visual stories are deployed to bring products and services to life. Based in our purpose-designed studio environment, you will examine diverse areas of branding and advertising, including how to develop brand communication, social media content, marketing strategy and interactive experience.
You’ll explore strategic research and creative thinking frameworks that enable you to solve complex brand and communications problems and will be encouraged to challenge conventions and build purpose-led campaigns that create positive change and address real-world social, cultural, and environmental issues. You will construct stories that connect strategically across multiple channels to engage audiences and influence perception. As well as exploring traditional communication formats, like print-based media. This degree in advertising and brand design will provide you with a solid grounding, develop a diverse skill set that is highly transferable, and boost your all-round employability into areas such as branding, graphic design, copywriting, art direction, and more.
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Key areas of study
- Creative Strategy
- Branding and Identity Design
- Copywriting and Art Direction
- Campaign Development
- Social Media Content Creation and Interaction Design
- Team-working and Project Management
