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BA Jewellery and Silversmithing
BA Jewellery and Silversmithing

BA Jewellery and Silversmithing

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  • Level:4-Year Bachelor's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry Requrement

English Requrement

We accept the following English language qualifications at the grades specified*:

  • IELTS Academic module overall 6.5 with 5.5 in each component.

  • TOEFL-iBT (including Special Home Edition) 92 or above with 20 in each section. We do not accept TOEFL MyBest Score to meet our English language requirements.

  • Cambridge English: Advanced or Proficiency overall 176 with 162 in each component.

  • Trinity ISEISE II with a distinction in all four components.

We also accept a wider range of international qualifications and tests.

English language qualifications must be no more than three and a half years old from the start date of the degree you are applying to study, unless you are using IELTS, TOEFL, or Trinity ISE, in which case it must be no more than two years old.

Course Information

Our programme aims to produce designers who create fresh, exuberant work demonstrating originality and innovation. We encourage students to combine new technologies with traditional techniques in materials including precious or semi-precious metal and gemstones, plastics, wood, paper, stone and textiles.

We maintain an outstanding international reputation and an impressive track record of employability with strong industrial links. Our staff regularly exhibit their work and lecture internationally; they are committed to sharing their experience to assist students to move rapidly into the professional design world.

We aim to equip graduates with a realistic understanding of the wider industry including career and future study opportunities. International exchanges and live projects enable you to gain a greater understanding of a range of industrial and craft production approaches.

Integrated with your practical studio work, Design and Screen Cultures courses provide a contextual and theoretical understanding of the holistic nature of contemporary design.

We have close ties with industry professional bodies, including Edinburgh’s Scottish Goldsmiths Trust and London Goldsmiths Company who annually support our final year students with precious metal awards and sponsorship. These bodies also run, or support, educational events, training, mentoring, competitions and exhibitions that we participate in fully.

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Year 1

You will be introduced to the foundation theoretical and practical concepts of studio-based research in design, through a range of projects and collaborative activities.

In Design and Screen Cultures you will address the key histories and theories of design.

You will be able to take up to 60 credits of option courses, either within ECA, or across the wider College, subject to availability and discussion with your Personal Tutor and relevant course organisers.

This offers you the flexibility to construct a suite of courses that reflects your interests and enhances your main study.

Year 2

Introductory and intermediary principles, theories, working practices and technical instruction will be covered. You will be set projects that offer a broad introduction to materials, specialist jewellery and silversmithing techniques.

Again, alongside Design and Screen Cultures courses, you will be able to choose an option course from the wider College, subject to availability.

Year 3

An externally facing professional practice year where there are a range of opportunities for competitions and live projects with industry.

Alongside Design and Screen Cultures courses, option courses are available from within the wider College.

Opportunities for study abroad help broaden an understanding of the discipline.

A live project allows you to design and develop a jewellery collection for public exhibition as well as work with new production technologies alongside traditional time-honoured techniques and processes.

The LTD Edition course offers you the opportunity to utilise digital design in the production of your work, collaborating with a world leading precious metal casting company in Birmingham. This course has been presented at UK and international conferences and has been exhibited at the National Museum of Scotland.

Year 4

You will feel confident about your ability to express personal ideas, opinions and concerns through your practical and theoretical work, the latter through a written dissertation.

Practice-based methods are consolidated and refined while developing an individual voice to produce a final body of studio work.

You are encouraged to develop an awareness of the commercial and critical potential of your work and future career possibilities.

Your final year will involve mandatory participation in a public exhibition of work as part of the Degree Show, and the potential for selection to show work at New Designers, London..

Programme structure

Find out more about the compulsory and optional courses in this degree programme.

To give you an idea of what you will study on this programme, we publish the latest available information. However, please note this may not be for your year of entry, but for a different academic year.

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

Our graduates emerge with the confidence to establish themselves as designers and makers, industrial designers, and teachers within the discipline.

Our alumni have proceeded to exhibit internationally, and graduate employers include:

  • Edinburgh Assay Office

  • Gucci

  • Michael Kors

  • Hamilton and Inche

  • Theo Fennel

  • The Royal College of Art

  • The Scottish Gallery

  • Edinburgh Dovecot Studios

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