Course options
Bachelor of Design
Minimum 3 years, up to a maximum of 7 years 
Hobart, Launceston
Minimum 3 years Hobart, Launceston 
CRICOS 098158A
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.
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 to help your ideas flourish and thrive.
Study options
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.
Engage your creativity in the multidisciplinary practice of visual communication and pursue a career in traditional fields such as graphic design, or explore new horizons in contemporary spaces, galleries and interpretation sites.
Create new virtual worlds and possibilities through learning about web and user experience design, interactive design, and combining your creativity with technology to enhance human experience and design possibilities.
Pursue your passion for hands-on making and materials, while developing skills and knowledge in craft and digital fabrication processes and manufacturing. Perfect for a career in furniture and product design, and the design of wearable objects.
Combine knowledge and skills from the fields of architecture, interior, landscape and urban design to pursue careers in areas like exhibition and event design, or fabrication of pop-ups across a range of industries.
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 to help your ideas flourish and thrive.
Study options
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 explore new horizons 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.
Create new virtual worlds and possibilities through learning about web and user experience design, interactive design, and combining your creativity with technology to enhance human experience and design possibilities.
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.
Undergraduate Certificate in Applied Design
Minimum 0.5 years, up to a maximum of 1 year Hobart, Launceston, online
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.
Gain valuable work skills
Learn about design thinking and design processes, visual language and form, and strategies and tools for creative enterprise.
Study without tuition fees in 2022
This course is offered with a 100% HECS fee waiver for eligible students in 2022
Become a change agent in a constantly changing world
Design is at work in every aspect of human existence. We are inherently change agents and with a design education, you can make change towards creative adaptation and positive impact in our constantly changing world.
In this course we’ll guide you to work with design thinking and design processes, visual language and form, design for inclusive interactions, and strategies and tools for creative enterprise. By understanding major shifts in how design fields now operate, you’ll gain foundational design knowledge and a framework for identifying opportunities.
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^.
- Creative Technologist
As a creative technologist, you will combine your passion for design and technology to create ideas and solutions that improve the user experience in the digital space. - Graphic Designer
Learn how to communicate ideas and inspire consumers by designing visual concepts created using computer software or by hand. - Event Designer
Consider the themes, intentions, locations, audiences and resources of events. Create immersive, atmospheric and enjoyable experiences. - Design Futurist
Gain knowledge, skills and experience for diverse career paths in future industries such as design for health, food innovation, ecotourism, social enterprise, and future trend forecasting.
19.4%
Fashion, Industrial
and Jewellery
Designers
Projected increase by 2025
12.9%
Graphic and Web
Designers, and
Illustrators
Projected increase by 2025
16.2%
Interior Designers
Projected increase by 2025
^ National Skills Commission five year projections from November 2020 to November 2025.
