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Bachelor of Design
Minimum 3 years, up to a maximum of 7 years 
Hobart, Launceston
Minimum 3 years Hobart, Launceston 
CRICOS 098158A
Flexible studios and teaching spaces
Access cutting-edge studio spaces where your ideas will flourish and thrive.
Create design solutions for real clients.
Associate Degree and Bachelor students meet potential employers and gain valuable work experience through real-world industry and community projects.
Tasmania inspires your design learning experience.
Our inspiring landscapes, thriving creative scene, and entrepreneurial spirit all inform your studies, helping your ideas flourish and thrive.
Imagine and create the future we want to live in
The Bachelor of Design is a future-focused course that guides you to respond creatively and collaboratively through prototyping and testing ideas. You'll discover how to use systems thinking and design-led innovation methods in real-world projects. This will help you create experiences and products that promote positive climate and social equity outcomes.
Study core units in design studio and design thinking, as well as history and ethics. These will give you a solid foundation in creative process thinking that can be applied to any situation, helping to bring your ideas to life. You'll also study the Design Practices major, which you customise with one of three streams.
In the elective space of your degree, you have the option to study additional design units or broaden your knowledge across any discipline offered by the University. You can also choose to pursue a second major to acquire complementary skills. When you graduate, you'll have the experience and confidence to bring your design thinking and technical skills to a range of exciting careers.
Study options in this degree
A major is an area of focus in your degree. During your studies, you’ll study the Design Practices major, as well as a series of units in an area that interests you. You also have the option to study a second stream of specialist design units from this degree, or source a major from elsewhere in the University, such as the new major in Sustainability. Find out more at What is a major?
Engage your creativity in the multidisciplinary practice of visual communication and pursue a career in traditional fields such as graphic design, or discover new opportunities in contemporary spaces, galleries, and interpretation sites.
Digital design is a rapidly expanding area as technology is everywhere in our lives, from websites to computer programs, apps, and games. Combine digital design with a second major in Games and Creative Technologies to extend knowledge and skills in the development of digital objects. Or focus on the growing world of tech-embedded smart products, by combining Digital Design and electives in programming.
Combine knowledge and skills from the fields of architecture, interior design, landscape, and urban planning to explore careers in various industries, such as exhibition and event design, or the fabrication of pop-ups.
Add sustainability to your degree
As part of our commitment to sustainability, we have created a complementary, optional major available across most of our flexible bachelor's degrees.
In the major, explore interdisciplinary knowledge and skills that underpin the development of sustainable societies and solutions. Informed by international and local research, practice, and theory, this major allows you to develop specialist expertise across the physical and social sciences and humanities, emphasising student-led and problem-based learning.
It provides the frameworks for developing sustainability-oriented solutions in a range of fields and is relevant to a wide range of careers.
Combined study options
Choosing a double degree allows you to deepen your knowledge within two separate study areas. This means you can pursue your career and follow your passion at the same time. And when you graduate, you’ll have a set of skills that will really set you apart.
The Bachelor of Design can be combined with a number of other degrees. Visit the Double Degrees page to learn more.
Find out more about what you'll study, entry requirements, fees and scholarships - and to apply.
Associate Degree in Applied Design
Minimum 2 years, up to a maximum of 5 years Hobart, Launceston
This course may not be available to international students. Please see our international page for courses that are offered to international students.
Career relevant practical learning
Flexible studios and teaching spaces offer creative environments for interactive learning utilising a range of modern and traditional equipment.
Create design solutions for real clients.
Meet potential employers and gain valuable work experience through real-world industry and community projects.
Tasmania inspires your design learning experience.
Our inspiring landscapes, thriving creative scene, and entrepreneurial spirit all inform your studies, helping your ideas flourish and thrive.
Create change by applying hands-on design skills for positive impact
In this course, you’ll combine foundational design knowledge in design thinking, processes, forms, and language with a skills focus in one of three design streams: Communication, Digital and Business. You’ll engage with industry-connected projects, practices and expectations and explore design ethics and histories to contextualise your design work.
Our practice-based learning approach, combined with a diverse and creative community, supports you in developing valuable and transferable skills in collaboration, reflective thinking, and critical analysis - all essential for framing and solving problems. Furthermore, we encourage and nurture the incorporation of your life and work experiences, regardless of their duration or nature, as design opportunities abound in every aspect of life.
Study options in this degree
A major is an area of focus in your degree. During your studies, you’ll choose an area that interests you, and then study a group of units related to that area. Find out more at What is a Major?
Gain the professional knowledge and skills to work with teams or create your own business. Combine your creativity with key areas of business: project and event design, communications, and marketing.
You can expand your education in this stream if you choose to continue your studies in the Bachelor of Design after graduation.
Engage your creativity in the multidisciplinary practice of visual communication and pursue a career in traditional fields, such as graphic design, or discover new opportunities in contemporary spaces, galleries, and interpretation sites.
You can expand your education in this stream if you choose to continue your studies in the Bachelor of Design after graduation.
Digital design is a rapidly expanding area as technology is everywhere in our lives, from websites to computer programs, apps, and games. Combine digital design with a second major in Games and Creative Technologies to extend knowledge and skills in the development of digital objects. Or focus on the growing world of tech-embedded smart products, by combining Digital Design, Object Design, and electives in programming.
You can expand your education in this stream if you choose to continue your studies in the Bachelor of Design after graduation.
Find out more about what you'll study, entry requirements, fees and scholarships - and to apply.
Career opportunities
Careers relating to design are growing across many industries. Here are some of the top careers projected to grow in the next five years^.
- Co-design
Co-design emphasises the process of design through the engagement of diverse stakeholders. This process is increasingly used by leading businesses, government departments, public institutions, and community organisations to imagine and prioritise opportunities for transformation and development. - Design Strategist
Imagine being the problem solver, using research and empathy to figure out what people and the world need. As a design strategist, you'll discover how people behave and interact with their surroundings. You'll help bring people together and make positive changes happen. Design strategists can work in many areas, from creating new products to making social and cultural shifts. - Event Design
Design plays an important role in shaping the participant experience and overall success of events, whether they are cultural festivals or corporate conferences. From the initial stages of planning and marketing to the execution of the event itself, design is integral at every step. Combine skills across spatial and communication design streams to become a leader in event design. - Interaction Design
Encompassing UX Design (User Experience) and interface design, this is a growing field that emphasises the holistic experiences and interactions we have with products, systems, and services to ensure that they are meaningful, accessible and functional. Interaction designers create a dialogue between the physical, emotional, and environmental worlds across the entire user journey, from acquisition to use, maintenance, or disposal. For this career path, we recommend focusing your studies on the design of physical objects or digital products. - Systems Design
In an increasingly complex and interconnected world, the future is less defined by elements and more by their relationships. Systems design emphasises understanding processes and opportunities for transformation towards more efficient, robust and sustainable operations. Working across a wide variety of fields, we recommend combining digital or spatial design with a second major in sustainability or business.
28.4%
Fashion, Industrial
and Jewellery
Designers
Projected increase by 2026
21.7%
Graphic and Web
Designers, and
Illustrators
Projected increase by 2026
19.1%
Interior Designers
Projected increase by 2026
^ labourmarketinsights.gov.au to November 2026.
