Northumbria University
speciality: Art & Design

Studying in Northumbria as an international student is so different because of the exposure to a different culture. The course is well-structured and details the way I am going to be assessed at the beginning making it easy for me to prepare what I want to write in my essays for different modules.

My experience pertains to the graphic design course at Northumbria University, it was here that I was taught how to tackle client briefs using a research-based approach.
For me, the technical sessions that had a more hands-on approach were the most appealing aspects – these were a mix of sessions including how to use programmes as part of Adobe Suite and more physical design like using hot presses and screen-printing machines. Not only were these sessions taught by people with years of professional experience in industry, but they were thorough and contributed immensely to my execution of design projects throughout the three years.
I would say the course aligned well with what was advertised, although they scrapped a major part of the course during first year that decided how your second year would play out which was disappointing as this was a huge draw for myself and many others to the course.
Overall, I would recommend the course to anyone interested in learning graphic design; the modules they cover are helpful in gaining perspective on how to approach a client brief as a graphic designer.

This is a growing university with great staff and excellent facilities. In summary, we had a great time in Newcastle, a student town with a great nightlife. The course gave me a different perspective on my research (through my dissertation).

I am doing MA in Creative and Cultural Industries Management and we were introduced to various interesting people, theories and venues. We also worked with museum and heritage sides. However, it is more theories than actually practice and most of the time it is a self study based.

This course was not for me. I loved my experience as part of Northumbria but this was mainly halls and the friends I met along the way.

The course offered very little direction as to what I should be doing. Photography was combined with fine art and we were also expected to work with sculpture, drawings etc and this really wasn’t what was sold.

I do remember the teachers not being very supportive or inspiring. Especially one of them!

As I’m still a student on this degree, I’m always learning something new on and about the course every day. The delivery of seminars/lectures is top quality and the one to one personal tutor programme has been extremely helpful, the tutors are really there to look out for you too.

The staff gives you awesome opportunities to grow and learn on your own rules. The timetable isn’t fulfilled with boring lessons. Classes are always interesting with many interactions with other students and a lecturer. You can always count on someone’s help when you struggle with the project or study materials overall. This school is great for working students who want to connect studying with earning. On art programs, there are a lot of software programs to learn which makes it easy to find a job after graduation. I can really recommend this school. Awesome people and an awesome program.

The course is what I expected and even more! I improved my skills and found new that I didn’t even realised I had! Very helping staff, great studio and atmosphere! Kind people in the city, great projects, new friends! Totally recommending it!!!