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Illustration BA (Hons) | Norwich University of the Arts

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Illustration BA (Hons)

Experiment with different illustration mediums and tools as you build your creative identity and professional skills.

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Key course information

Course Duration

3 or 4 Year options

Course Options

Diploma Year

Intergrated Foundation Year

Typical Offer

104-120 UCAS Tariff Points

How to Apply

Request a prospectus

Annual Fees

Home (full-time) £10,050

Overseas (full-time) £28,500

UCAS code

W220 (3 Year), W221 (4 Year)

Institution code: N39

Course Start

September 2027

Two creative specialists. One future-defining partnership.

Students starting an undergraduate degree at Norwich University of the Arts from September 2027 will graduate with a degree jointly awarded by Norwich and the Royal College of Art. Find out more about the partnership.

This course nurtures individuality and challenges conventional thinking, valuing the power of illustration to communicate through different media and creative applications. BA (Hons) Illustration is designed to inspires the development of a unique illustrative language with conviction and confidence, opening opportunities in freelance, publishing, design, education and further study.

Engaging in live projects, competitions and collaborations you’ll be immersed in real-world scenarios that prepare you for a successful career in illustration. Throughout the course, you will develop your own way of thinking about illustration, storytelling and the connection of images to text or the spoken word. We will help you develop your personal style as your expertise grows in drawing, print, collage, and multimedia.

You will explore visual storytelling and digital and analogue image-making: from the page to the screen, to installations and interactive experiences. Our support extends beyond the artistic realm to encompass practical insights into navigating the creative industries. We provide valuable advice on freelance careers freelance careers, employment and entrepreneurship, and practical tips on handling commissions and negotiating with clients.

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Our partnership with the Royal College of Art

From September 2027, we’re offering our students at Norwich the world’s only current opportunity to study for an undergraduate degree that’s jointly awarded by Norwich University of the Arts and the Royal College of Art (RCA).

For 12 consecutive years, the RCA has been ranked as the world’s number one art and design university, by the respected QS ranking. A transformative and equitable space for free-thinking and collaboration, it’s the world’s largest community of postgraduate-only art and design students.

Every year RCA alumni are recognised as leaders in their disciplines, shaping our culture and world.

Explore the partnership

Why study with us

Develop core skills and techniques through digital and analogue workshops including printmaking, laser cutting, photography and bookbinding along with essential training in industry standard digital software.

Understand drawing languages, observational drawing, mark-making, print, collage and multi-media processes.

Consider your work and how it is situated within a global context, develop your critical evaluation skills, and reflect on your creative practice with awareness of sustainable and responsible ways of thinking.

Learn to communicate and present ideas clearly to different audiences while developing critical evaluation skills to reflect on your creative practice in a global context.

Explore storytelling and representing your understanding of the changing world through a range of creative contexts.

Be inspired by industry visitors including agents and industry organisations such as Arena, The Artworks, Jelly London, The House of Illustration and the Association of Illustrators (AOI).

Course Details

Integrated Foundation Year (optional)

Integrated Foundation Year

Our Integrated Foundation Year is designed to equip students with the necessary skills, knowledge and confidence to thrive in their chosen degree subject. The course provides a comprehensive introduction to various disciplines, blending critical thinking and creative problem-solving with practical hands-on experience. This year serves as a bridge to undergraduate studies, allowing students to explore their interests within a supportive and inspiring environment, while familiarising themselves with the campus, workshops, and tutors.

Find out more about our Integrated Foundation Year.

Core Units

Creative Learning (40 credits)

This unit provides you with a dynamic exploration of the fundamentals of illustration, such as observational drawing, mark-making, print, collage, and multi-media processes. You will learn about the ‘interpretation’ of subject matter from text and concepts into developed illustrations. You will explore observational, life-drawing, and location drawing, investigating perspective, depth of field, composition, scale, colour, and mark-making. You will be encouraged to experiment with your image-making including collage, assemblage, layering, text and image, and printmaking. Our technical workshops will explore digital drawing skills, tools, and software. You’ll be introduced to how illustration is used in industry and applied in different contexts.

40 credits

Explore and Experiment (80 credits)

This unit will encourage you to explore and experiment with a range of techniques, materials, and media. Through project work and workshops, you will explore a range of subject-specific technical and practical skills, including relief printing, digital drawing, layout, and bookbinding. You will experiment with storytelling through visual narrative and sequential design, interpreting text into storyboards. Through our design workshops and activities, you’ll explore the relationship between text, typography, image, and page layout design. You’ll study contemporary and historical illustration practices and develop knowledge and the application of global approaches to fundamental design principles used within contemporary illustration practices.

80 credits

Core Projects

Wayfinding Week

The first week of each academic year is called Wayfinding week. It’s an opportunity get your bearings, establish new connections and, after your first year at Norwich, re-establish old ones. Your course team will talk you through the year ahead and explain the expectations for the year. We’ll help you navigate new encounters and identify areas to focus on as you progress through your course.

Make it Manifest(o)

An important element of Wayfinding Week is taking part in our annual ‘Make it Manifest(o)’ project. Your course team will introduce the project in which we’ll ask you to consider your hopes and vision of the year ahead at Norwich and work with students in other year groups to bring your ideas to life. The project culminates in a celebratory display of work across the campus. The project will help you to develop your critical creativity through different approaches, concepts, and mediums. You’ll encounter diverse perspectives and build friendships and networks within our university community.

Interchange Weeks

Interchange weeks are opportunities to step away from your disciplinary studies and engage in projects, workshops, visits and talks that extend your knowledge and understanding of the world. Whether you learn a new skill or take part in a global challenge project with students from other courses, you will come away with new insights to take back to your course. Interchange is part of the schedule for all Norwich students with sessions held across and beyond the campus led by university staff, visiting lecturers and students.

Global Contexts (80 credits)

This unit will enable you to develop and advance your specialist knowledge and skills. You will consider a variety of contexts and audiences for your work, and how it is situated within a global context. The unit also supports you in making considered decisions about your future career through engagement with industry, such as competition entry and working with live briefs. Technical workshops will develop your digital and analogue skills and you will prepare for employment opportunities by developing self-promotional material, such as a CV and online presence. This unit will also explore the creative and cultural economy, and contemporary issues such as sustainability and how illustration can raise awareness.

Directions (40 credits)

This unit focuses on helping you understand your practice in a wider context through collaboration and interdisciplinary working. Through active participation and working in collaboration with external partners or students from other courses, you will use creative ideas to generate solutions to a live brief. This collaborative learning experience will expose you to a range of new processes and approaches that will develop your creative thinking and decision making. Working with a range of production, print, and display methods, you will explore the process of exchanging ideas, establishing roles and responsibilities, team working, project planning, project management, and professional pitches and presentations.

Interchange Week

Diploma Year (optional)

Level 5 Diploma (120 credits)

Students have the opportunity to spend a year after the second of their degree (or the third year if studying for a degree with an Integrated Foundation Year) enhancing their employability options through a Level 5 Diploma. They can choose from courses designed to provide:

opportunities to gain industry insight, developing employability skills through a series of supported experiences, expanding professional networks and building confidence in the workplace, or

an introduction to creative computing, building an understanding of how coding skills can be used to advance and complement creative practice.

Find out more about our Level 5 Diplomas.

Final Year

Research and Preparation (40 credits)

This is the first and shorter of the two units that make up your final year of study. Your work will include briefs, both set and self-initiated, including competition briefs set by established professional bodies, as well as ‘live’ client’ briefs set by industry partners and practitioners. As you advance your practice, you will be involved in studio, academic, and technical workshops, including type and image, visual identity, narrative, sequential, and print/digital design. The unit allows you to identify, investigate, and plan a self-determined, critical research project, culminating in a 5,000-word written report. You’ll apply various research methods and methodological approaches, informed by your approach to your creative practice and future career aspirations.

Resolution and Career Development (80 credits)

Your final unit allows you to create a bespoke professional portfolio developed from your final year projects and aligned to your personal and professional goals. Your research will inform your developing ideas and resolved outcomes in relation to the wider context of contemporary illustration practice, theory, techniques, and ideas, you have explored in previous units. Career development planning and academic workshops will focus on your social media presence, self-promotion, portfolio design, and digital presence. These study areas will combine your subject specialist and industry knowledge with your creative vision to produce a resolved and professional body of practice, so that you are industry-ready once you graduate.

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Illustration BA Hons 4 Year Degree Course Specification – (303kb)

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Awards and accolades

The course has a long track record of student and course successes including the RSA Student Design Award, D&AD New Blood, Penguin Design Awards, Carmelite Prize for Children’s Picture Books, YCN Awards and New Designers Best in Show

Learning and teaching

This course is taught through a mixture of learning and teaching methods including:

Learning and Teaching at Norwich

Group briefings

Academic tutorials

Group tutorials

Workshops

Critiques (crits)

Seminars

Lectures

Assessment

Assessment for this course is entirely coursework-based, meaning there are no exams. Your progress will be evaluated through the projects and assignments you complete for each unit. Throughout the year, you’ll receive ongoing feedback to help you refine your work and develop your skills. To support your learning and ensure you achieve the course outcomes, we use a variety of assessment methods, including:

Finished pieces of work

Presentations

Written work

Your research

A reflective journal

Find out more about Assessment at Norwich

Some of the people you’ll be working with

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Martin Schooley

Director of Communication Design, Business and Psychology

Glyn Brewerton

Senior Lecturer

Rob Nicol

Subject Leader and Lecturer

Alice Lee

Lecturer

Christian Petersen

Neil Bousfield

Nigel Coton

Kirsten Pairpoint

Subject Librarian for Communication Design

Our Facilities

Look around our city-centre campus, and you will find studios, media labs, and creative spaces in 13 buildings that sit among the cafés, bars, independent galleries and shops of Norwich’s cultural quarter.

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Design Studio

The Design Studio & Student IT Helpdesk are situated on the first floor of the Guntons building. The area specialises in design for print, publication, graphics, and illustration.

Large Format Digital Printing

The Large Format Print Room offers wide format, laser, UV, and vinyl printing, with on hand support from a team of workshop technicians.

Laser Cutting

The Cutting Room (GU106) has two large-bed laser cutters — for card, board, and acrylic materials — with associated digital design hardware and software. The machines are controlled by Ethos software that uses files from Adobe Illustrator.

Media Labs

The Monastery Media Lab is a fully refurbished Victorian school building which provides industry standard digital facilities, lecturing and presentation studios for the University’s Faculty of Arts and Media.

Media Resource Centre

As in a traditional library, students are able to loan out a range of specialist Production, Photographic, and Audio Visual equipment, and take part in workshops and demos to learn tips and tricks.

Munnings Drawing Studio

Named after Sir Alfred Munnings, it features space for Life Drawing Classes used by students — on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses — from fine art, fashion, textile design, illustration, games, and animation.

Print Making Workshop

The Print Making Workshop is divided into two areas — A water-based silkscreen workshop (SG47) with supporting darkrooms and screen reclaiming room, and a Multi-process workshop (SG50) that supports intaglio practices, etching, relief print and mono-printing — Included is a computer facility to support up to A3 sized print “transparent positive” production.

UV Printing

The Mimaki UJF-6042 Mkii UV printer in the Norwich University Digital Design Studio allows you to print directly to objects such as aluminium, acrylic, woods, and completely cylindrical objects such as bottles.

Here to help you succeed

The UK’s creative sector is thriving, contributing £111.7 billion annually to the economy and offering over 2 million jobs.

Employability and career development are integral to every unit of our courses, ensuring students are well-prepared for the industry. Our students go on to secure exciting roles, launch successful businesses, and make a lasting impact in many sectors worldwide.

From day one, you’ll also get specialist career advice from our Business and Employability Team to help support you as you plan your career.

Typical career paths

Our graduates head into jobs at globally recognised organisations including the BBC, MTV the V&A, get roles as designers at publishing houses such as Little Brown, Hachette, Harper Collins and Penguin Random House and at creative agencies such as Havas Lynx and Mullen Lowe. Many enjoy success as freelance illustrators.

Freelance illustrator

Self-publisher

Printmaker

Designer

Picture book designer

Public artist

Artist in residence

Book publisher

Animator

Filmmaker

Director

Editorial publisher

Gallery assistant

Illustration agent

“92% of our graduates are in employment or further education within six months of graduating”

Graduate Outcomes 2021

Entry requirements

Norwich University of the Arts welcomes applicants of all ages from all backgrounds.

If the qualification that you are studying is not shown, do not worry as we are able to accept other pre-entry qualifications as well as combinations of different qualifications.

Please do contact our Student Recruitment Team if you have any queries.

A/AS Levels (GCE)

GCE A/AS Levels 3 A-level qualifications at grades BCC (104 UCAS Tariff points) or above. Where candidates are not taking 3 A-levels, Norwich University of the Arts will consider combinations of A-level/AS-level and other Level 3 qualifications.

BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF or RQF)

Distinction, Merit, Merit in an art, design or media related subject

BTEC Diploma (QCF or RQF)

Distinction*, Distinction* in an art, design or media related subject

T Levels

A T Level in any subject with overall grade A* to C (Pass)

UAL Extended Diploma

UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

UAL Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Access to Higher Education Diploma (Art and Design)

International Baccalaureate Diploma

A minimum of 26 points

Integrated foundation year (optional)

GCE A/AS Levels 2 A-level qualifications at grades CC (64 UCAS Tariff points) or above.

Merit, Merit, Pass in an art, design or media related subject

Distinction*, Merit in an art, design or media related subject

Pass (D or E on the core)

International

We accept qualifications from all over the world

To find our country-specific entry requirements, please visit our international entry requirements page.

English Language qualifications

Most international students are required to hold an English language qualification. Applicants must have an IELTS score of 6.0 overall and no less than 5.5 in each component. We do accept alternative English Language qualifications. Learn more about our English entry requirements.

You can email us on international@norwichuni.ac.uk if you’d like to discuss your application individually.

Portfolio Advice and Guidance

Portfolios should show examples of your work — both finished and work in progress — that demonstrate your interests and skills. Your portfolio should be made up of work that reflects your creativity, personal interests and influences, as well as demonstrating your technical skills and ability. It doesn’t have to be perfect as we can assess your potential from your work in progress.

Your portfolio should be relevant to this course, but you can include a wide range of work that shows your creativity, technical competence and understanding of storytelling.

Get more advice on presentation formats, layouts and when to submit your portfolio in the application process.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees for the 2027/28 academic year

Undergraduate course (three year): £10,050 per year

Integrated Foundation Year (optional): £10,050 per year

Level 5 Diploma Year (optional): £10,050 year

The level of fee that you will be asked to pay depends on whether you’re classed as a UK (home) or international student. Check your fee status.

Fees for subsequent years

Tuition fees may increase in subsequent years in line with inflation, subject to government regulations. The inflation rate used is expected to be the Retail Price Index excluding mortgage payments (RPIX), as forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility. Tuition fees are reviewed annually by the University, and we would confirm any change to you in advance of each academic year.

Find our more about fees and funding

Funding your study

Depending on your circumstances, you may qualify for a bursary, scholarship or loan to help fund your study and enhance your learning experience.

Undergraduate course (three year): £28,500

Integrated Foundation Year (optional): £28,500

Level 5 Diploma year (optional): £19,380

For Overseas students starting in 2027 inflation will be applied to your fees in later years. We will confirm this in advance to you of each academic year, and we will limit the increase to no more than the Office for Students’ recommended inflationary measure.

If you defer your course start date or have to extend your studies beyond the normal duration of the course the University reserves the right to charge you fees at a higher rate and/or in accordance with any legislative changes during the additional period of study.

Please take a look at our International students page for information about fees, scholarships for international students, visas and much more.

Additional costs

Your course fees cover the cost of studies, and include loads of benefits, such as the use of our library, support from our expert employability team, access to workshops and free use of the IT equipment across our campuses. There are also other costs which you may need to consider.

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How to apply

All applications for undergraduate courses will need to be made via the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).

You’ll need our university UCAS code (N39) as well as your course code which you’ll find on your course page.

When you register with UCAS you will need include your previous and current qualifications information, personal statement, and reference.

Once we receive your application form through UCAS, we will email confirmation that we have received it and will give you access and instructions for logging into the applicant portal. Our decision will be communicated via UCAS.

Applying for an undergraduate degree

Full-time Undergraduate International applicants can either apply via UCAS or directly by completing the online application form below or emailing the downloadable form to ioadmissions@norwichuni.ac.uk

Online Application Form

International Undergraduate Application Form – (216kb)

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Apply via UCAS

For further support for international applicants applying for an undergraduate degree view our international pages.

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