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School of Design and Creative Arts

Design, Industrial Design and Product Design and Technology

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Key skills developed during your degree

Presentation skills;
Communication skills;
The ability to work to deadlines;
Commercial and entrepreneurial skills;
Problem-solving skills;
The ability to use your initiative and work independently;
Teamworking skills;
Visual and spatial awareness;
General and specialist IT skills, such as computer-aided design (CAD).

Career options

Graduate employment career options related to your degree:

Graduates from creative degrees often have many transferable skills which can be applicable to a wide variety of jobs and industries, not just the creative sector. For example, here is a resource for creatives working in healthcare.

To find out more about other careers see our Career Areas page or explore the Prospects Job Profiles

Further study

Loughborough Design School offers a broad portfolio of taught postgraduate programmes designed to provide students with applied research, knowledge and professional skills relevant to the student's programme of study.

We offer a first class environment for postgraduate study housed in a new state-of-the-art building. We currently have 65 students studying postgraduate taught programmes with us.

The individual programmes are characterised by the balance and focus on key knowledge, skills and competencies. The flexibility and range of choice in the modules provided enables students to develop their own skills and competencies and to establish a personalised approach to the creative and/or analytical aspects of the four core themes.

Design related programmes are also available at the Loughborough University in London campus.

LDS also offers a number of postgraduate research opportunities including PhDs.

Further study elsewhere:

Where do graduates go?

What do Loughborough Industrial Design and Technology graduates do?

Graduates from this subject area have gone on to destinations where:

Employers included:

BBC, Boots, Close Brothers, DCI Artform, Epoch Design, Hornby Hobbies, Nomensa, Princess Yachts, Rail Alliance, RedCloud Technology, Unilever.

Roles included:

Design Engineer, Freelance Designer, Graphic Designer, Industrial Design Engineer, Junior UX Designer, Packaging Technologist, Product Designer, Prototype Engineer, UX/UI Designer.

Further Study included:

MA User Experience Design, MSc Sustainability & Management, Design and Technology.

What do Loughborough Product Design and Technology graduates do?

Graduates from this subject area have gone on to destinations where:

Employers included:

Alten AB, Dyson, Industrial Design Consultancy Ltd, Plexi-Craft, Safehinge Primera, seymourpowell, Tata Technologies, Ubisence, Vaughan Designs Ltd.

Roles included:

Graduate Design Engineer, Industrial Designer, Product Designer, Product Design Engineer, Product Development Coordinator, Product Development Manager, Service Design Intern.

Further Study included:

MSc Engineering Design.

As a new course for 2017, graduate data for User Centered Design is not yet available.

Further information

For more information on companies graduates work for, industry links and career opportunities, visit the subject area page of the University website. You can also find out what our students say in our student stories of personal journeys through and beyond Loughborough and track the career journeys and Loughborough experiences of some of our alumni.

Resources to research career areas

Resources to find experience, placements and graduate jobs

There are a wide range of resources available to you to search for placement, internship and work experience opportunities.

There are many opportunities advertised on Target Connect, the University’s online vacancy system.

Websites:

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