MA in Design Management (with Professional Placement)

Bachelor's certificates.

Submit it, along with scans of your original academic transcripts and certificates.

Two references (one academic and one employer)

Personal Statement Please include any relevant main interests, ambitions and career plans. You can type your personal statement directly into the box provided or alternatively, if you already have a personal statement prepared.

Please start your portfolio with a short statement introducing yourself, your aspirations, what we can expect to see in your portfolio, and if there are any specific parts that you would like us to focus on and why. When preparing your personal statement, please answer the following questions: 1) Why have you chosen to apply for MA Design and Visualisation at Birmingham City University? What course you studied before applying for this course? What can you bring to this course? What do you want to learn from this course? What interests you about this course? 2) We would like to see at least 4 ideas and concepts. You should include at least one project from start to finish – showing your source of inspiration, all iterations for the concept, technical ability, and research processes. 3) It is useful to include any live projects, competitions or industry projects, as this can highlight your potential. 4) We would like to see a variety of work using a variety of techniques. This can be from any design-based courses you have undertaken, and should highlight your interests linked to the MA Design and Visualisation course. 5) The order you present your work in is the order we will view it, so structure your work in a clear and organised way. For example, you may find it useful to start with your best-detailed project that shows your journey in a project from start to finish followed by the other projects which could just be a short statement on the Design Objective, Rationale and the final outcome with any key techniques you want to highlight to us in that project. 6) If you are including work that was created as part of a collaborative team project, it is important that you state what your role was in the project and evidence the specific design elements that you contributed towards the project. Submit your digital portfolio as a single PDF file. Your digital portfolio should be no more than 20MB. Please compress your file if it exceeds the limit. You can add any external website links to your video and animation work in your PDF portfolio.