About BA (hons) Digital Media Design in University of Plymouth
Course Details
Shape the future - break down barriers and see things in a new way. Become a smart thinker, and be ready for wherever this rapidly evolving industry will take you. You’ll experience a vibrant mix of theory and practice, combining creative and technical skills with cultural and new media theory. Choose a creative focus with the BA - our graduates are among the world’s best game designers, digital artists, web designers, coders and creative thinkers.
Get ready for work - take an optional additional year and secure a paid placement with a company. You’ll gain invaluable experience that could lead to a job in a company such as MTV or Disney when you graduate. You’ll also get your horizons broadened with great enrichment activities including overseas field trips in Berlin, Helsinki and New York to attend conferences and visit galleries.*
Key features
- Stay one step ahead with a course designed in close collaboration with industry leaders to ensure technologies, skills and techniques are bang up to date.
- Access all areas – keep working into the evening in our dedicated lab space open until 10pm, and take advantage of our other amazing facilities, including a 35 seat, 360° immersive vision theatre.
- Customise your course with our unique exit awards, and choose from games design, information design and interaction design.
- Your assessments are 100 per cent coursework – no exams!
- Be inspired by lecturers who are experts in their field, with backgrounds in both industry and research. The exciting work going on in our research groups, i-DAT and Transtech, feeds back into the teaching on this course.
- Get ready for work - take an optional additional year and secure a paid placement with a company. You’ll gain invaluable experience that could lead to a job in a company such as MTV or Disney when you graduate.
- Broaden your horizons with great enrichment activities including overseas field trips in Berlin, Helsinki and New York to attend conferences and visit galleries.
- Network, network, network – we have close links with industry leaders including Sony, IBM, Virgin Media and Kaspersky.
- Get exclusive insights with talks from guest speakers from the creative arts and technology industries, such as Hannah Wood, Jaromil and Luke Jerram.
Academic qualification equivalents
Standard 12th qualifications (CBSE/ICSE or State Boards of equivalent)
Grade: Minimum aggregate of 60% and above
English language requirements (one of the below):
- IELTS 5.5 overall (6.0 for integrated programmes)
- IELTS 5.5 in all four components (listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- PTE 42 (50 for integrated programmes)
- PTE 42 in all four components (listening, reading, speaking and writing)
University of Plymouth Highlights
Type |
Public |
Campus Setting |
Rural |
Application mode |
Panther Application or Common Application |
Student Retention rate |
68% |
Cost of Attendance (2020-21) |
39,322 USD |
Number of Students |
UG: 4,100 PG: 1,758 |
Academic calendar |
Semester-based |
Student-Faculty ratio |
18:1 |
Financial Aids |
Scholarships, grants, loans, and Pell grants |
Graduation rate |
54% |
Tuition fee |
UG: 23,902 USD PG: varies |
University of Plymouth Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses
- Cost of attendance for various 2020-21:
Financials |
UG |
PG |
Tuition and Mandatory Fees |
23,902 USD |
765 USD (Per Credit) + 695+780 USD (CAGS+EDD) |
Room and meals |
11,580 USD |
11,580 USD |
- The mandatory fee (2,622 USD annually) breakdown can be seen as:
Charges |
Amount |
Athletics |
290 USD |
Student Activities |
190 USD |
Transportation fee |
16 USD |
Student Health fee |
380 USD |
Student Recreation |
502 USD |
Educ. Technology |
466 USD |
Registration |
100 USD |