Bachelor of Arts - Graphic Design, pathway in Media Design
- 4 years
- Duration
- 16,100 EUR/year
- Price
- Sep 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Barcelona / Spain
- Location
Program description
You have instantaneous access to an ocean of data! Learning Media Design is the first step toward making your digital ideas a reality. By learning the ins and outs of graphic design and communication, you'll be able to develop your own original ideas and proposals with complete freedom.
You will learn and perfect the abilities necessary to build websites, applications, and digital platforms, including programming for User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), and generative visuals.
The four-year curriculum will teach you how to employ technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality in visual communication and the creation of interactive goods, as well as the ins and outs of a wide range of media formats and programming languages. The programme is built on a project-based learning approach, with students presenting their final work in partnership with real businesses.
Program structure
1st YEAR
- Foundation Project
- Foundation Project I
- Representation Techniques I
- Project Communication I
- An Introduction to Marketing
- Science Applied to Design
- Colour and Form
- Foundation Project II
- Representation Techniques II
- Project Communication II
- Technical Drawing I
- Sociology
- Volume
- The History of Art and Design
2nd YEAR
- Informatics Graphic Design I
- Photography for Graphic Design
- The History of Graphic Design
- Semiotics
- Typography I
- Graphic Techniques for Graphic Design
- Animation Techniques for Graphic Design
- Workshop I
- Audiovisual Graphic Design
- Digital Communication I
- Programming I
- Digital Communication II
- Digital Communication III
- Interdisciplinary Project
3rd YEAR
- Strategy & Management for Graphic Design
- Workshop II
- Corporate Identity Project
- Post-production II
- Project Communication for Graphic Design
- Social Media Strategy
- Sound I
- Project I
- Editorial Project and Interactive Communication
- Contemporary Communication
- Packaging Project
- Multidisciplinary Workshop I
4th YEAR
- Post-production III
- Workshop III
- Programming II
- Project II
- Sound
- Professional Internship
- Multidisciplinary Workshop II
- Final Project
Price
Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 16100.00 EUR for international students
Requirements for applicants
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
- Age - be 18 years old by December 31st of the first year of the course;
- Transcripts of their last year of high school (or equivalent, translated into English or Spanish)
- Motivational Letter (500-600 words). Tell us why you’ve chosen this Course and why you want to study with us.
- Submit a 500-600 words essay
LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
To prove their proficiency in the required language, the applicant must either:
- submit one of the accepted language certificates listed in the table below (the certificate cannot have been awarded more than 2 years before the application is made to IED);
- take the IED language assessment.
RECOGNISED CERTIFICATES
- IELTS Academic ≥ 5.5
- Cambridge C2 Proficiency (CPE)
- Cambridge B2 First (FCE)
- Cambridge C1 Advanced (CAE)
- B2 Vantage Bulats ≥ 60 (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- TOEFL IBT ≥ 68
- PTE Academic ≥ 59
- ISE Level II (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- ISE Level III (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- ISE Level IV (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
About the university
Since 1966, we have been the largest Higher Education Network in the creative area to keep both a worldwide perspective and a strongly Italian cultural matrix.
Our educational strategy has evolved over time, but at its core remains the same: we mix theoretical study with hands-on experience and the expertise of working experts. One of the things we emphasize in our classes is always thinking ahead, in the here and now. We are a diverse, multidisciplinary institution that views design as a tool for social transformation.
Among the many international academic networks in which we participate are Cumulus, Elia, and WDO, just to name a few.
Campuses
In the 1970s and 1980s, we expanded to Rome (1973), Cagliari (1984), and Turin (1989) in Italy.
Beginning in 1994 with the Madrid campus and continuing on to Barcelona in 2002, Spain's modern era began in the 1990s.
The Group also spread internationally, establishing a presence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2005, and then in Venice, Italy, in 2007, Florence, Italy, in 2009, and Como, Italy, in 2009, with the acquisition of the Aldo Galli Academy of Fine Arts. The Group expanded its footprint in Brazil in 2014 by renovating the Cassino da Urca and opening a campus in Rio de Janeiro; in 2020, the Group will expand its presence in Spain by purchasing the Centro Superior de Diseo Kunsthal in Bilbao.
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