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Illustration PgDip

University of Gloucestershire

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  • Qualification

    Postgraduate Diploma - PgDip

  • Location

    Francis Close Hall Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    22-SEP-25

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

Course overview

The PGDip in Illustration gives you the opportunity to navigate your practice within a supportive creative community, build confidence in your work, develop visual storytelling skills and succeed with a sustainable creative profession.

Youll have access to excellent creative facilities and your own studio space to question, challenge and explore your image-making skills.

Underpinning the course is visual storytelling, as well as practice-as-research. Students are encouraged to take their work in their own idiosyncratic directions. There is no predetermined outcome – it is part of the course to develop your own themes and creative inquiries. The drawing and practical experimentation is framed as practice-as-research to provide structure and a theoretical rigour to your work.

We are home to the Cheltenham Illustration Awards (CIA), an international illustration competition that leads to a touring exhibition of highly commended entries, presenting an opportunity to exhibit your work nationally. Alumni have begun successful businesses such as The Potthouse Collective, have worked at Meri Meri, Jelly Armchair, and Inky Little Fingers, become freelancers, or moved into doctoral study.

Tuition fees

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£ 11,970per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

University of Gloucestershire

University of Gloucestershire

  • University League Table

    88th

  • Campus address

    University of Gloucestershire, The Park, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 2RH, England

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Art & Design

    48th out of 84 2

  • Entry standards

    / Max 239
    124 52%

    58th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    61.0 61%

    52nd

    1

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.11 78%

    54th

    24

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