Overview

The Making and Material Science (Hons) programme offered by Cardiff Metropolitan University is designed for students who enjoy designing, building, testing, and understanding how things are made, while exploring the relationship between materials, technology, sustainability, and contemporary creative practice.

Key Facts

You’ll work across workshops, studios, and digital fabrication environments, developing practical and conceptual skills through experimentation with materials, processes, and emerging technologies. Alongside traditional making techniques, you’ll explore areas such as prototyping, fabrication, digital production methods, material testing, and creative applications of technology.

The course encourages interdisciplinary thinking and problem-solving, helping you develop the confidence to move between creative and technical approaches to making. You’ll learn through studio projects, workshops, critiques, collaborative activities, and public-facing outcomes, while building an understanding of the environmental, social, and professional contexts shaping contemporary design and production.

Programme Structure

Courses Include:

Material experimentation and prototyping
Fabrication, construction, and model making
Digital fabrication and emerging production technologies
Workshop processes across a range of materials
Object design and spatial making
Sustainable and circular approaches to making

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

Tariff 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
Domestic Applies to you

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Citizens or residents

9535 GBP / year

≈ 9535 GBP / year

Living costs

Cardiff

United Kingdom

628 - 1066 GBP / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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