Course details

Summary

Study Design at an advanced level to upgrade your skills and expand your Bachelor's degree.

Design at Victoria teaches you to use technology in innovative ways to design new methods of shaping the world.

Study a new area of design at an advanced undergraduate level. A GDipDI will broaden your knowledge into an area you haven't studied before so you can either add depth to your degree or use it as a stepping stone to Master's study in that subject.

You'll study a combination of 200- and 300-level courses from the Bachelor of Design Innovation (BDI) degree. The Diploma gives you the flexibility to choose courses that fit your career goals, or that will help you decide on a topic for your Master's research if you intend to do a Master of Design Innovation.

You can do a general diploma or choose to specialise in Communication Design, Design for Social Innovation, Industrial Design, Interaction Design or Media Design.

Returning to study

Many students return to university for postgraduate study after several years away. If it's been a while since you've studied, our liaison officers can help you get back into university life.

Available subjects

• Communication Design
• Design for Social Innovation
• Industrial Design
• Interaction Design
• Media Design

Entry criteria

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related subject area, and portfolio.

Other English Language requirements:

• IELTS overall band of 6.5, no sub-score below 6.0; or
• TOEFL 90 on the internet-based test with at least 20 in writing; or
• A minimum of two ratings of 5 and two ratings of 4 in the Victoria University English Proficiency Programme test
• Pearson Test of English: A score of 65 (with a ‘Communicative’ score of not less than 58).