Overview

The Digital Art (Hons) programme offered by Cardiff Metropolitan University combines creative experimentation with critical thinking, encouraging you to work across digital and physical media while developing your own distinctive artistic voice.

You will investigate contemporary approaches to digital making through areas such as artificial intelligence, digital image-making, moving image, digital fabrication, immersive media, sound, installation, and physical-digital hybrid practices. Alongside technical and material experimentation, you will explore the cultural, social, and environmental impact of technology and consider how artists are responding to an increasingly networked world.

Key Facts

Digital Art at Cardiff Met approaches technology as a creative and critical material in its own right. You will learn through hands-on studio practice, workshops, critiques, exhibitions, and collaborative projects, supported by access to digital fabrication facilities, creative technologies, and specialist studio spaces within Cardiff School of Art & Design.

The course encourages experimentation, interdisciplinary working, and independent thinking, preparing you for a range of creative futures. Graduates may progress into careers across the creative and cultural industries, including digital content creation, exhibition and installation practice, creative technology, freelance practice, or postgraduate study.

Programme Structure

Courses Include:

Experimental and hybrid digital practices
AI and creative technologies
Digital fabrication and physical–digital making
Installation and spatial practice
Digital image-making and moving image
Sound, projection, and immersive media

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-28 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-13 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

OR

72

OR

4

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PTE Academic

59

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IELTS

6

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Credits

360 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

OR

72

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4

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PTE Academic

59

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IELTS

6

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Other requirements

General requirements

ariff points: 96-120
Contextual offer: See our contextual offers page.
GCSE: Preferably five GCSEs at Grade C / 4 or above to include English Language / Welsh First Language, Mathematics / Mathematics – Numeracy.
English Language Requirement: Academic IELTS 6.0 overall with at least 5.5 in all elements, or equivalent.
A level: Minimum three A levels. No specific subjects required. Welsh Advanced Skills Baccalaureate considered as a third subject.
BTEC National / Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: MMM-DDM
T Level: No specific subjects required.
Access to Higher Education Diploma: No specific subjects required.
International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma: 24 points. No specific subjects required.
Irish Leaving Certificate: No specific subjects required. Higher level subjects only considered with a minimum grade H4.
Scottish Advanced Highers: No specific subjects required.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

16000 GBP / year

≈ 16000 GBP / year

Living costs

Cardiff

United Kingdom

628 - 1066 GBP / month

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