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Course Overview

This highly creative course is aimed at students aspiring to a career as an interaction designer, helping to shape the digital landscape we live in. The course equips you with the skills you need to meet the challenges of a dynamic and rapidly changing industry which offers many exciting career opportunities.

Ranked 8th in the UK for Art and Design in The Times Good University Guide, Ulster University is one of the top places to study Interaction Design, not just in the UK, but worldwide.

Interaction design is all around us. The emergence of devices like Apple's iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Amazon's Echo, has – in a very short space of time – revolutionised how we interact with one another.

Apps like Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram are changing our behaviour and there's a growing need for designers with the skills and creative thinking required to design for these platforms and for platforms yet to be conceived.

The course is highly rated by industry professionals and benefits from partnerships with world-class companies such as Google, Deloitte Digital, Square, Booking.com, and others. A degree in Interaction Design will offer opportunities in a wide range of exciting and very well-paid roles, including app design and web design; user experience and user interface design; virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR); and digital product design.

Entry Requirement 

Academic Requirements:

A level

The A Level requirement for this course is BBC.

Applicants can satisfy the requirement for one of the A level grades (or equivalent) by substituting a combination of alternative qualifications recognized by the University.

Applied General Qualifications

Overall award profile BTEC Level 3 QCF Extended Diploma DDD.

Overall award profile BTEC Level 3 RQF National Extended Diploma DMM.

Irish Leaving Certificate

112 UCAS Tariff Points to include a minimum of 4 subjects at Higher Level and 1 subject at Ordinary Level. The overall profile must include English at minimum Grade H6 or above (HL) or O4 or above (OL).

Scottish Highers

The Scottish Highers requirement for this course is BBCCC.

Scottish Advanced Highers

The Scottish Advanced Highers requirement for this course is CCD.

International Baccalaureate

Overall International Baccalaureate profile minimum 25 points (12 at higher level).

Access to Higher Education (HE)

Successful completion of Access Course with an average of 63% in Level 3 modules.

GCSE

GCSE Profile to include English Language at minimum grade C.

English Language Requirements

The minimum requirement for this course is Academic IELTS 6.0 with no band score less than 5.5. Trinity ISE: Pass at level III also meets this requirement for Tier 4 visa purposes.

Ulster recognises a number of other English language tests and comparable IELTS equivalent scores.

Fees

Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland Fees

£4530

England Scotland Wales the Islands and EU Fees

£9250

International Fees

£14910


This information was accurate on : 14/04/2021
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