Higher Education - Art and Design | Blackpool and The Fylde College

This hugely successful School offers focused degree programmes, widely regarded as among the best in Europe. Exciting and fulfilling, they equip students for a career in the real world. The atmosphere is friendly, supportive and challenging. Student retention and satisfaction is understandably high.

How to apply

Full details on all of the courses in this section are available in our Art, Design and Performing Arts prospectus which you can download by clicking the prospectus image in the right hand sidebar.

Courses available:

Competition success

Our Art and Design students regularly enjoy competition success at national and international level. This year, our Graphic Design students took all 5 awards in the Business Calendar Awards while Photography student Lorraine Setchell won the first Nikon student competition.

Strong industry links enhance learning

Close involvement with industry translates into regular lectures from industry professionals, ‘live’ briefs and commissions from business and stimulating work placements. These give you countless opportunities to develop your skills and learn all about your chosen vocation.

Creative opportunities in Blackpool

The creative industries are at the heart of Blackpool’s multi-million pound transformation into a 21st century visitor destination and will provide exciting opportunities for talented graduates. Blackpool Council’s new creative industries ‘hub’ is a dedicated business start-up facility specifically for digital and creative services entrepreneurs.

Alumnus Interview

David Nauli - BA (Hons) Photography

Even in Switzerland, where I’m from, the reputation of the photography course in Blackpool was very convincing to me. I was also very keen to go abroad to improve my language skills and experience a different culture.

The tutors and technical staff on the course were very helpful and supportive throughout my three years studying – we always had somebody to help us with whatever issues we had concerning photography. We had the opportunity to use a lot of different equipment too.

The University Centre is relatively small – we weren’t just a number in a big system, which we inevitably would have been studying at a bigger place. Importantly, studying on the course narrowed down the career route to a point where I knew what I wanted to do, where I wanted to go and how to approach it.

Every day brings a different kind of challenge and opportunity to prove yourself when you are a photographer, there’s no such thing as a typical day at work! You need a lot of passion and patience but ultimately it’s all worthwhile!

To find out more about Art and Design at Blackpool and The Fylde College, please visit our
School of Arts section