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Intro

Creativity and craftsmanship are at the heart of this course, where you will gain the creative and practical skills required for a career in fashion and find your unique design approach.

Placements give you the chance to put your learning into practice in a professional environment, strengthening your portfolio and industry contacts. You will explore your own design interests, guided by experienced industry professionals and skilled technicians. Specialist areas of making are explored through creative cutting and materials innovation, engaging you with traditional and digital processes.  

You will be encouraged to think broadly and critically about fashion. At Brighton we reflect the values of our vibrant and progressive city. Taking an inclusive approach to design, we believe the fashion industry should be a diverse and welcoming place. Considerations of social responsibility, inclusion and intersectionality are important to us in driving forward this agenda. Sustainability is one of our guiding principles and integrated into all your learning.  

Join us and you will become part of a vibrant creative community where you will share academic modules with students on other fashion and textiles courses.

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Key facts

Location Brighton: City campus

UCAS code W2N2

Full-time 3 years
With placement year 4 years

Apply now with UCAS for 2023

Graduate Yen Wong presented her collection at London Fashion Week
Yen Wong graduated in 2019 and was chosen by Graduate Fashion Week Presents to show her latest collection as part of London Fashion Week 2020.
Our extensive, well-equipped fashion studios
Our extensive studios and workshops are staffed by expert technicians who will help you practically refine and realise your designs.
Student on a fashion work placement
For your optional year in industry, our placements team will help you find work at companies such as Alexander McQueen, Margaret Howell, Mary Katrantzou, H&M and COS.
Our well-equipped fashion workshops
You’ll be working in bright workshops on equipment including industrial sewing machines, linkers, embellishers and looms, with access to screen and digital printing facilities, darkrooms and the latest computer software.
Visitors to our graduate show could watch the 2019 catwalk collections via VR headset
Thanks to a collaboration with computer science students, visitors to Graduate Fashion Week and our graduate show could watch the 2019 catwalk collections via VR headset.

Art and design courses at Brighton are ranked joint 8th in the UK and in the top 100 globally by the QS World University Rankings® 2022

Course content

Course structure 

There are two routes through this course and you will choose which one is for you while you're with us. For now just apply to Fashion Design with Business Studies BA(Hons). The routes are three or four years long. They are:

  • BA(Hons) three-year course
  • BA(Hons) four-year course with industrial placement year.

If you would like to discuss this, please call 01273 643211 or email fte@brighton.ac.uk.

Making sure that what you learn with us is relevant, up to date and what employers are looking for is our priority, so courses are reviewed and enhanced on an ongoing basis. When you have applied to us, you’ll be told about any new developments through Student View.

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See the final collections by the University of Brighton’s Fashion Design with Business Studies BA(Hons) 2022 students on the catwalk at Elm House.

Year 1

In year 1 you will develop your subject knowledge through research, and establish an individual creative design process. You will learn to use design software and acquire the technical skills of fashion design, including pattern cutting, draping and garment manufacture, while designing and exploring the cultural and commercial contexts of fashion.

Modules

  • Market Research and Business in the Creative Industries

    This module introduces you to and equips you with a range of transferable skills, qualities and attitudes that will prepare you for professional career paths in the creative industries. Through investigation and critical reflection, you will have the opportunity to develop your knowledge and appreciation of the scale and scope of the creative industries and begin to locate yourself, your interests and your practice within a vocational context.

  • Fashion Fundamentals

    This module provides an introduction to fundamental fashion design knowledge, research and technical skills. You will be introduced to historical and contemporary fashion designers and 2D and 3D design methodologies used within the fashion design process. You will also be introduced to a range of technical aspects applied in the fields of both men’s and women’s apparel within the context of the course and in industry.

  • Design and Make

    This module enables you to develop your creative and technical abilities and gain a greater understanding of the fashion design process through project work that encourages the use of visual, textual and materials research to extend your experimental approach to fashion design.

  • Personal Design Development

    This module enables you to begin to articulate a personal fashion design identity and design approach. You are introduced to relevant social, cultural, ethical and environmental issues in relation to fashion design. You will learn to apply a range of design software to enhance your fashion design presentation and communication.

  • Design and Culture Under Scrutiny

    This module introduces key debates relevant to the analysis of the past and present in fashion, textiles and fashion communication. Through lectures, seminars and exhibition visits, you will be introduced to, and engage with, critical ideas and academic approaches relevant to your field of study.

    The module is designed to support studio work through the development of critical thinking and formal written skills.

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Year 2

In the second year, diverse design projects will broaden your knowledge of different fashion contexts and market sectors, as well as test your design skills. You’ll be encouraged to develop individual areas of specialism through more sustained creative and technical inquiry and build a personal body of design work and garment samples to add to your professional portfolio. During year 2 we will help you decide which course route suits your study needs.

Modules

  • Preparing for and Engaging with Business
  • Fashion Concepts, Contexts and Market Awareness
  • Fashion Design Specialism
  • Creative Collaboration in the Fashion Industry
  • The Clothes and Fabrics of Society

Fashion year 2 student

Fashion Year 2 work

Placement

In your third year you will have the opportunity to complete a year in industry, working for high-profile designers, brands and organisations in the fashion and textile industry.

There is a dedicated placement team which will support you in your research, preparation and application for placements. This process begins in the second year when you will complete a compulsory professional practice module which will support you to develop skills and promotional material to make applications for placements.

You will also receive an individual service to guide you towards your first choices and to support you while on placement.

The department places students with different skills and interests with a wide range of organisations, covering a variety of roles in the industry. Opportunities are available to work for high-profile designers and brands, high street retailers and their suppliers, trend and prediction agencies, textile design studios and fashion and textile manufacturers. Students work for companies in the UK and overseas, particularly in Europe and the US.

The placement year in industry is academically assessed and your degree award will reflect your industry experience. The placement is for a minimum of 20 weeks.

See the careers section below for current placement destinations. 

Hear from placement students

Sandrine Melville

"The course includes a valuable business aspect and a placement year, which makes it a cut above other courses, I spent my placement year at JW Anderson which was hard work but great fun." 

Laura Dean

“My year in industry was invaluable and an enormous learning curve on every level. Although not always easy, I learned so many aspects of design, production, craft and print, as well as about the fashion industry. Without the year in industry, the pressures and management of my final year would have been much more of a struggle and I would not have furthered my technical skills.” 

Hannah Gibbens, winner of the 2018 Debenhams Menswear Award at Graduate Fashion Week

"During my year in industry I interned in New York with GAP, and in London for Craig Green and E.Tautz. The placement is an excellent way to gain an insight and create motivation for your future career and life after university. The experience allowed me to understand all the career possibilities within the fashion industry but also, most importantly, taught me a range of important skills and confidence in using them." Hannah Gibbins, winner of the 2018 Debenhams Menswear Award at Graduate Fashion Week 

Trevor Tam fashion on the catwalk

Trevor Tam – nominated Graduate Fashion Week People’s Choice Awards 2019

Final year 

In your final year, whether on a three or four-year programme, you will develop a highly personal body of research and experimentation to inform the designing and making of an original collection of market-specific outfits. You will also produce a professional portfolio of design work, a research essay and a business or marketing plan.

Modules

  • Design Management and Business Plan
  • Fashion Design Research
  • Fashion Design Collection and Professional Portfolio
  • Historical and Critical Studies Research Project
Dorothy Williams fashion on the catwalk

Dorothy Williams – nominated Graduate Fashion Week People’s Choice Awards 2019

Facilities

  • Industrial sewing machines for lightweight and heavy-duty fabrics.
  • Overlocking and cover stitching machines for jersey and stretch materials.
  • Button-holing and bar tacking machines.
  • Professional pressing and fusing equipment.
  • Opportunities to work with textiles and materials resources in knit, print and dye.
  • Clo3D Fashion Design Software, with access to Pattern Digitizing and Plotting.
  • Photo studios.
  • Darkroom.
  • Letter-press.
  • Access to PC and Mac suites with Adobe CS and Clo3.
  • Media Centre, including specialist equipment including materials for sound, film and photography available for short-term loan, computer rooms with contemporary software for digital image processing and manipulation, graphic layout and typography, animation, film and sound production and editing.
  • Students also have access to the TECH HUB – a team of technical demonstrators based in Grand Parade who provide specialist creative software support including Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign,Premiere, After Effects etc) , Rhino, Blender and C4D, as well as web and blog-related software. They manage digital manufacturing services within the School of Art and Media, including laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC routing, plasma cutting and 3-axis CNC milling. They also have VR headsets and 3D scanners. The TECH HUB has its own dedicated PC suite with all of the software they support as well as standard university programmes.
  • One of the country's best-stocked specialist art and design libraries.
  • Internationally important Design Archives.
  • On-site supplies shop.
Fashion facilities

Meet the team

Craig Higgins, course leader

Craig graduated from the University of Brighton in 1996 and has worked with international designers including Sonnentag Mulligan, John Galliano, Emma Cook and Roland Mouret. He has an in-depth understanding of contemporary fashion design and industry practice as well as expert skills in fashion design, creative pattern cutting and garment manufacture.

Craig has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level for over 14 years at a variety of universities and has a Student Experience award in recognition of his work and contribution to the subject. Read Craig's academic profile.

Other staff who teach on the course include: Jane Shepherd, Matthew Coats, Sarah-Ann Humphrey-Smith, Gary Kaye (Illustration, communication and presentation), Carl Bartlett (Digital).

Student views

James Parker

"Studying Fashion Design with Business Studies at the University of Brighton has really helped me understand the process of creating garments. The technicians for the course who help you understand pattern cutting are phenomenal and there really is no limit to what you want to design as they make it possible to construct anything! Alongside the lecturers, they are a great team and they really push you to be the best designer you can. There is so much to learn about this industry and they teach you all of it."

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Alice Winzar

“I like the vibrancy of living in Brighton. I’ve learnt a lot throughout the four-year course. The year out interning was very productive and I feel like I learnt a lot of important skills then too.”

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Careers

Prepare for your career 

Your Fashion Design with Business course will provide you with skills and technical expertise plus opportunities to put what you learn into practice with work-related experience.  

  • You use industry-standard technologies and practices developing your understanding and appreciation of process and quality, enabling you to create professional design proposals
  • The mix of creativity with business studies integrated throughout the degree means that you will leave ready to enter the business of fashion, whether to start your own company or work as part of a team within international brands and design houses.
  • Collaborative modules in your second-year span practical fashion and textiles specialisms, with a focus on engaging with future fashion thinking, sustainable business practices and circular design, with opportunities to build and work within community partnerships.
  • You will leave us with a portfolio ready for the fashion industry.
  • In your second year you can take a placement at a wide range of fashion organisations giving you industry experience and professional contacts.
  • Talks from industry professionals throughout your studies will give you both business insight and creative inspiration.
Fashion Placements overview

Placement year  

The experience you gain on placement is invaluable in helping you on your way to professional practice and enabling you to:

  • apply your learning to real life situations and challenges
  • get an insight in to how businesses and organisations function
  • develop existing skills and discover new ones
  • explore career options
  • make professional contacts
  • build confidence and organisational skills.

Many students find that the placement informs as well as enhances their employment after graduating.

Our placement hosts include: Alexander McQueen, Nicole Farhi, Margaret Howell, Roksanda Ilinčić, Giles Deacon, Gareth Pugh, Erdem, Peter Jensen, Mary Katrantzou, Alexander Wang, Aitor Throup, John Rocha, Jaeger, H&M, COS, Monsoon Accessorize, Bless (Paris & Berlin), Bernhard Willhelm, Henrik Vibskov, Donna Karan and DKNY and Diane Von Furstenberg.

Fashion show 2010

Showcasing your talent 

There are many opportunities to exhibit work publicly throughout the course.

At the end of your degree you can exhibit a body of work in our Graduate Show, a large-scale exhibition that is the culmination of the final year and a major event open to the public. 

Students are also selected to go forward to show at Graduate Fashion Week in London.

There are also opportunities to showcase your work locally.

Graduate destinations 

Our students leave ready to enter the business of fashion, whether to start their own company or work as part of a team within international fashion brands and design houses. Roles that our students have gone onto include:

  • Womenswear Designer, Burberry
  • Menswear Designer, Tom Ford
  • Womenswear Designer, Victoria Beckham
  • Menswear Designer, A Cold Wall
  • Womenswear Designer, The Vampires Wife
  • Menswear Designer, Dunhill
  • Womenswear Designer, Calvin Klein
  • Design Assistant, Molly Goddard
  • Leather Goods Designer, McQueen
  • Product Development/ Merchandiser, Mulberry
  • Womenswear/Accessories Design, River Island.

Notable alumni 

  • Emma Cook, design director, fashion consultant
  • Fred Butler, founder Fred Butler Style
  • Mark Eley co-founder Eley Kishimoto
  • Julien McDonald, fashion designer

Ones to watch

  • Sadie Williams @sadiewilliams_studio
  • Caro Chia @caro_chia
  • Max Alexander @bryderstudio
  • Tara Hakin @tarahakin
  • Sarah-Louise Koessler @sarah_louise_designs
  • Caitlin Price @3am_eternal
  • Rhianned Dancey @rhidancey
  • Benjamin Richardson @materialresponse
  • Danielle Reynolds @dvrequestriansport

Further study

This degree also opens up a range of postgraduate study options.

At Brighton, for example, you could go on to study our Art and Design PGCE.

Professional advice and support 

Outside of your course, our Careers Service is here to support you as you discover (and re-discover) your strengths and what matters to you. We are here for you throughout your university journey as you work towards a fulfilling and rewarding career.

Connect with our careers team

  • Find part-time work that you can combine with your studies.
  • Find, or be, a mentor or get involved with our peer-to-peer support scheme.
  • Develop your business ideas through our entrepreneurial support network.
  • Get professional advice and support with career planning, CV writing and interview top tips.
  • Meet potential employers at our careers fairs.
  • Find rewarding volunteering opportunities to help you discover more about what makes you tick, and build your CV.

Whatever your career needs, we are here to help. And that's not just while you are a student, our support carries on after you've graduated.

Find out more...

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Employment demand for arts graduates

The British Academy has compiled a report (May 2020) quantifying the demand for arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) skills in the workplace. It helps to answer the legitimate question of what the economic return is on undertaking a degree, both in time and money. 

According to the report:

  • As arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates progress through the first ten years of their career they are able make strong progress up the career ladder into roles attracting higher salaries
  • Arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates are employed in some of the fastest growing sectors including financial services, education, social work, the media and creative industries
  • Of the ten fastest growing sectors, eight employ more graduates from AHSS than other disciplines

This makes AHSS graduates at the heart of some of the most exciting, productive, largest and fastest-growing sectors of the UK economy.

Future skills demand

According to the report:

  • With the challenges the world is facing – climate change, global pandemics, the growth of populism – the UK needs the insights of the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) as much as those from science, technology and engineering (STEM)
  • Evidence within the report shows that Arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates are central to these challenges and changes – they will be vital in giving us the tools to examine and explain human behaviour, understand how society functions, learn from the past and apply those lessons to the present, and analyse the drivers and implications of a changing world and how different countries, places and cultures interact.

Entry criteria

Flexible admissions

When you apply to Brighton we want to hear about who you are. Grades are never the whole picture; we're interested in things like creativity, resourcefulness, persistence and the capacity to think big and find new ways of doing things. And we recognise that not everyone has the same background. That's why we treat everyone who applies as an individual. We recognise many qualifications and we care about all of your achievements and the experiences you've had that set you apart.

Find out more

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Entry requirements

A-levels or BTEC
Entry requirements are in the range of A-level BBB–BCC (120–104 UCAS Tariff points), or BTEC Extended Diploma DDM–MMM. Our conditional offers typically fall within this range. We are looking for highly motivated and creative students. We will consider you on an individual basis. Your portfolio is the most important and mandatory part of your application. If your predicted or actual grades fall below the range below but you can evidence your thinking, ideas and abilities through a high-quality portfolio we will still consider your application.

Art foundation diploma
Pass. A foundation diploma is not a requirement for entry – it is just one of a range of qualifications that is accepted for admission to this course. 

International Baccalaureate
30 points, with three subjects at Higher level.

Access to HE diploma
Pass with 60 credits overall. Art and design courses preferred. At least 45 credits at level 3, and 30 credits must be at merit or above.

Studied before or got relevant experience?
A qualification, HE credits or relevant experience may count towards your course at Brighton, and could mean that you do not have to take some elements of the course or can start in year 2 or 3. 

English language requirements
IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each element. Find out more about the other English qualifications that we accept.

International requirements and visas

International requirements by country
Country name
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belgium
Bermuda
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burma (Myanmar)
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guyana
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kosovo
Kuwait
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malaysia
Malawi
Malta
Mexico
Moldova
Montenegro
Morocco
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palestinian National Authority
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russian Federation
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Syria
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

We can help you meet our English language or academic entry requirements.

Visit our language centre

For English language preparation courses.

Visit our International College

For degree preparation courses.

Visas and immigration advice

Applying for a student visa

Check out our step-by-step guidance.

Portfolio advice 

Online portfolio

We are looking for highly motivated, ambitious and creative students who are passionate and inquisitive about the subject of fashion, with an interest in processes of making.

 

We ask to see an online portfolio of 30+ pages (drawings, photographs, sketchbook pages and 3D work) which demonstrates your wider cultural awareness and a specific interest in fashion design and making. Your work should evidence a good understanding of drawing, composition, form

Find out more about how to create and submit your portfolio.

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Fees

Course fees

UK (full-time) 9,250 GBP

International (full-time) 15,300 GBP

If you choose to take the professional placement (sandwich) year offered on this course you will pay a reduced fee during this year. Our fee for the professional placement year is £1,410 for UK students and £2,180 for international students. This fee may be subject to small increases, in line with inflation.

What's included

You may have to pay additional costs during your studies. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. A summary of the costs that you may be expected to pay, and what is included in your fees, while studying a course in the School of Art and Media in the 2022–23 academic year are listed here.

  • Typically, practice-based courses incur more costs than text-based subjects. For many courses you will need to budget for the cost of specialist materials, equipment and printing and are likely to spend between £50–£300 per year.
  • For some courses you may also need to budget up to £100 for specialist personal protective clothing which, with care, will last for the whole of your course and beyond.
  • For most courses you will have the opportunity to attend field trips and off-site visits, for example to galleries, exhibitions and studios both in the UK and overseas. These are optional and are not required to pass your course. The amount spent would be based on location and number of trips taken, and typically range between £100 and £700 across the duration of your course.
  • You will have access to computers and necessary software at City campus and Moulsecoomb campus and at other locations across the university. Specialist equipment is provided to cover essential learning. Students may choose to buy their own specialist equipment, these may include cameras, or computers and software, university/student discounts are available for some equipment and software. Budgets can range from £50–£2,000. Buying specialist equipment is best undertaken in consultation with our academic and technical staff. This expenditure is not essential to pass any of our courses.
  • For some courses you will need to budget up to £200 for printing and publishing. Photography courses may incur higher costs (£500–£2,000) when printing and framing images of professional standard for public presentation.
  • Course books, magazines and journals are available in the university libraries. You do not need to have your own copies, but if you wish to, you should budget up to £200 over your course to buy them.
  • For courses in which there is an optional placement year, you will need to budget for living costs (rent, food, travel etc) in that city/country, as if you were on site at the university.
  • For some courses you will need to budget up to £150 for stationery.
  • Final-year graduation shows are opportunities to present your final, independent project work to the public. Practice-based courses will typically incur higher costs. Depending on the specific nature of your final project you will need to budget between £20–£2,500.

You can chat with our enquiries team if you have a question or need more information. Or check our finance pages for advice about funding and scholarships as well as more information about fees and advice on international and island fee-paying status.

Info

The fees listed here are for full-time courses beginning in the academic year 2023–24.

Further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study and are subject to an annual increase of no more than 5% or RPI (whichever is the greater). The annual increase for UK students, who are subject to regulated fees, will increase no more than the statutory maximum fee.

You can find out more about our fees in the university's student contract and tuition fee policy (pdf).

The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors including the kind of course you take, and whether you study full-time or part-time. If you are studying part-time you will normally be charged on a pro rata basis depending on the number of modules you take.

Location and student life

Campus where this course is taught

City campus

City campus is located at the heart of central Brighton.

The facilities for making and designing, the theatre, galleries, workshops, studios, archives and the independent arts organisations based on site provide a unique and inspiring environment where creativity thrives.

St Peter’s House library and Phoenix halls of residence are close to the exhibition and learning facilities in the Grand Parade main building where you will also find the student centre with careers, counselling, student advice service and disability and dyslexia support. Edward Street provides extensive teaching and gallery space for media, photography and film.

Also on site are Screen Archive South East and University of Brighton Design Archives.

Brighton Pavilion, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, the iconic pier and beach are a very short walk away. The independent shops and businesses of the North Laine and Kemptown, and Brighton main line station, with frequent express services to London, are 10 minutes walk.

Grand Parade exhibition space

Accommodation

Brighton: City campus

We guarantee an offer of a place in halls of residence to all eligible students.

Halls of residence
We have halls of residence across Brighton in the city centre, Moulsecoomb, Varley Park and Falmer. All rooms are self-catered.

  • You'll be prioritised for accommodation in the halls that are linked to your teaching base, subject to availability.
  • City campus is linked to Phoenix halls, Mithras halls and Moulsecoomb Place.
    • Phoenix halls are a short walk from City campus in the centre of Brighton.
    • Mithras hall and Moulsecoomb Place are located on the Moulsecoomb campus, around two miles from City campus. Public transport in the city is excellent.

Want to live independently? We can help – find out more about private renting.

Phoenix Brewery Halls Accommodation

Accommodation for City campus is in the nearby Phoenix Halls

Student kitchen in Phoenix Halls

Student kitchen in Phoenix Halls

Relaxing in nearby Pavilion Gardens

Relaxing in nearby Pavilion Gardens

Local area

About Brighton

The University of Brighton is at the heart of our city’s reputation as a welcoming, forward-thinking place which leads the way when it comes to the arts, music, sustainability and creative technology. Brighton is home to a thriving creative community and a digital sector worth £1bn a year. Many of the work-based learning opportunities offered on our courses such as placements, live briefs and guest lectures are provided by businesses and organisations based in the city.

We provide support and venues for key events in the city’s arts calendar including the Brighton Festival, the Festival Fringe, the Great Escape, the Brighton Digital Festival, Brighton Photo Biennial and the CineCity Brighton Film Festival. Other annual highlights include Pride, the Brighton Marathon, and Burning the Clocks which marks the winter solstice. Our own Brighton Graduate Show transforms our campus into the largest exhibition space in the South East as we celebrate the outstanding talent and creativity of our students.

As a student you’ll get lots of opportunities to experience these events at first hand and to develop your skills through the volunteering and other opportunities they offer.

You'll find living in Brighton enriches your learning experience and by the end of your course you will still be finding new things to explore and inspire you.

It's only 50 minutes by train from Brighton to central London and less than 40 minutes to Eastbourne. There are also daily direct trains to Bristol, Bedford, Cambridge, Gatwick Airport, Portsmouth and Southampton.

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