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Bachelor of Design

Australia

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What will I learn?

Designers apply creative and open approaches to defining and solving problems, leading to high-quality decisions. This enables businesses and industries to overcome rigid or outdated ways of doing things. Design has applications in the creation and improvement of our cities, buildings, transport networks, furniture, websites, processes, bridges, landscapes and environment. Designers are innovators who enhance the way we live and interact with the world around us.With job markets evolving constantly, gaining skills that transfer across industries is really important. The ability to apply design thinking is now recognised as a specific and desirable skill.As technology drives more and more aspects of our lives, designers are playing an important role expanding the potential of the Internet of Things, such as smart homes, smart cities and intelligent transportation.If you are imaginative, enjoy learning about new fields, and want to play a role in improving the way we live and the places we live in, Design could be a good fit for you.As a Bachelor of Design student, youll use innovative processes to solve problems creatively and determine solutions for a better future. You will develop expert knowledge and skills, and study real projects within the built environment, engineering, technology and performing and visual arts disciplines.CareersStudy design if you are interested in working in: Architecture and landscape architecture, Graphic design,Construction and civil engineeringGeospatial technology, Property, Software design, including games, Town planning, User experience, Virtual reality and augmented realityPerformance design, Design for mechanics and robotics.

Which department am I in?

Melbourne School of Design

CRICOS

090744C

Study options

Full Time (3 Years)

Tuition fees
A$39,552.00 (21,99,166) per year
Indicative first year fee: AUD $39,552 - AUD $51,884; Indicative total course fee: AUD $116,848 - AUD $163,516

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please

Start date

June 2025

Venue

Parkville Campus

Grattan Street,

UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE,

Victoria,

3010, MELBOURNE, Australia

Entry requirements

For international students

Completed secondary education recently (within the past two years); Completed some or all of a higher education qualification; Completed some or all of a VET qualification; Applicants with work and/or life experience

English language requirements

TOEFL Internet-based test: total score of at least 79 and scores of 21 for writing, 18 for speaking, 13 for reading and 13 for listening; IELTS: total score of at least 6.5 in the Academic International English Language Testing System (IELTS), with no bands less than 6.0; Pearson Test of English Academic : overall score of at least 58 and no PTE communicative skills score below 50; Cambridge English, Advanced/Certificate in Advanced English (CAE): Cambridge English Score of at least 176 with no skill below 169; C2 Proficiency (previously called Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) examination): Cambridge English Score of at least 180 with no skill below 180.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

Pathways options

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