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Launch your design career with real clients
At UOW, we prepare you for careers that showcase your flexibility, creativity, teamwork and entrepreneurship.
If you are passionate about gaining practical experience, learning about real world issues and making a difference, then UOW is for you. We help you launch your design career through opportunities to work with real clients, on real problems. At the same time, we encourage you to explore your individual creativity, and use your design practice to respond to the world around you.
Belong to one of the best
- If you want to learn more about the social impact of how spaces are designed, or to understand which images work effectively in specific contexts, visual design is a good choice for you. Our degrees will help you strengthen your skills in managing visual elements in a wide range of contexts, informed by the principles of modern visual design.
- The Visual Communication Design major will look at key elements such as interaction design, social impact, typography and motion design, as well as project development and client management. You can choose to pair these skills with a second major such as Digital and Social Media, Screen Media Production, Journalism or Marketing Communication and Advertising.
- The Visual Arts and Design major will focus on visual design in relation to your art practice. It infuses contemporary elements of design (composition, colour, space and written word) within traditional visual arts practice such as painting, drawing, sculpture and textiles.
Whichever option you choose, we will give you the right balance of doing and thinking. Our technical facilities and studio-based practice will encourage you to carve out your own creative niche. Our project focus will help you understand how visual designers communicate effectively with clients and imagine creative solutions for complex problems.
5 stars
UOW received a 5-star rating for undergraduate skills development.
The Good Universities Guide 2023Number 1 in NSW
UOW ranked number one in NSW for staff qualifications.
The Good Universities Guide 2023Become one of the world's most employable graduates
At UOW, you'll develop real-world practical skills and content, not just theory. Employers and clients across many industries are looking for design professionals who can analyse context and provide skilled and effective visual solutions.
The latest QILT Employer Satisfaction Survey (2021) ranked employers' overall satisfaction with UOW graduates at 91.7% (84.7% national average), placing UOW 1st among all universities nationally.
- Advertising and marketing
- Animator
- App design
- Digital game designer
- Environmental graphic designer
- Graphic designer
- Illustrator
- Motion graphic designer
- Print and product media
- Typographer
- Social media manager
- Web designer
Meet Vivian
My passion for graphic design combined with the ever-growing digital work in today's society gravitated me towards majoring in Visual Communication Design within the Bachelor of Communication & Media. Through my visual works, I hope to influence and challenge the world by producing impactful design.
A student experience like no other
CLUBS & SOCIETIES
Becoming involved with a club or multiple clubs is one of the best ways to meet new people and have fun while studying
Be extraordinary
UOWx recognises the valuable knowledge and skills our students gain when they participate in the wide range of co-curricular activities offered outside of their academic coursework.
Real-world experience
Ryan studied a double degree in Graphic Design and Advertising and Marketing at the University of Wollongong, where he was able to finesse his craft. However, more important than that, his time at UOW taught him to go out and seek the ideas in a brief, finding those moments of clarity – those lightbulb moments. He lives for those moments of pure inspiration. Ryan found his why at UOW.
My name is Ryan. I studied a double degree in Graphic Design and Advertising Marketing at University of Wollongong. My education at UOW gave me the practical skills to finesse my craft. They also taught me something more important to that and that's going out seeking the ideas and a brief. Finding that great idea and a brief is a moment of clarity. Something that you'll get hooked on once you have experienced it. It’s that classical lightbulb moment. I live for those moments of pure inspiration can solve the problem.
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A brighter future starts here
Admissions
UOW has a range of admissions options available for students of all ages and academic backgrounds. We are here to support your choices and open doors, so you can graduate ready for your future career.
Scholarships
More than 200 scholarships are on offer to UOW students each year, rewarding academic or sporting excellence or community contributions.
Moving to Wollongong
From a hike in the mountains, to a swim in the ocean and all the food, shopping and culture nestled in between, there’s always something happening in Wollongong.
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