Brighton University offers one of the best places in the UK to study web design, development, and mobile applications. It’s becoming an increasing feeder station for the digital industry in Brighton, and, here at barefoot, we pay close attention to what they’re teaching their students over there, and the quality of graduate coming out of the course. Accredited by the British computer Society the chartered Institute for IT professionals, we feel this is one of the best courses of its type in the country and a contributory factor to Brighton’s growing dominance in the fields of web design and development.
Digital media development BSC (Hons) at Brighton
Year 1
The foundation course covers technical modules such as PHP and web scripting, grounding the students in the digital industry as a whole and encouraging students to start developing their own personal portfolio websites. In addition, students practice the social media skills, and learn how to blog.
Year 2
During the second-year course really kicks off with an introduction to Web design development, and a focus on interactive multimedia development. Optional modules allow the students to learn some object-oriented software architecture, as well as to gain direct experience of the industry with work placements.
Year 3 (Placement Year) –
One of the true strength of the Brighton University web design course is their focus on encouraging 30 students to undertake a paid year within the industry for actually completing their BA. University facilitates these placements for students so that undergraduates are regularly placed in some of Brighton’s top web and mobile agencies, honing their skills and learning from some of the best in the industry. Big agencies like CogApp, and Site Visibility are some of those who accept third year students from Brighton.
Final Year –
During the final year, undergraduates start to really hone in on the type of career that there about to undertake. By this stage likely app developers will probably have already decided that that’s the avenue they want to go down, while digital marketers or web developers will have chosen their path. Along with one-to-one supervision bonus tutors, final year also give students the possibility of launching their own digital start-up. Entrepreneurship support helps them understand what it’s going to take to get a new business off the ground, which makes Brighton University a key incubator for the tech innovators of tomorrow.