When to submit a portfolio
Please note that the information below is for applicants to the exchange programme only.
If you are applying for a degree course, please proceed as follows:
- If you have not yet made an application, please contact [email protected] for further information on portfolio requirements
- If you have already made an application, your Admissions Officer will contact you about any portfolio requirements
If you're applying for practice or practical based modules, you must submit a portfolio of work when you apply.
We cannot consider you for practical classes if you do not submit a portfolio.
You'll need to submit a portfolio when applying to modules such as:
- Audio Production
- Film and TV
- Photography
- Illustration
- Graphics
- Fine Arts
- Fashion Design
- Animation
- Urban Design and Architecture
What to include in your portfolio
Your portfolio must meet the following criteria:
- Portfolios should show an example of the work you have produced, your level and your abilities. We'll be looking at your ability to specialise in a particular area of study and your portfolio should reflect this. Please do not submit more than ten examples for each subject. Only submit recent work (the last two years’ work only).
- The work should be relevant to the class you are applying to take.
- Depending on the nature of your experience, your work may be focused or may reflect a range of work across different media.
- The preferred method of submission of your portfolio is electronically with your application. If your work is available online via websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Instagram, blogs, etc. we advise you to provide with your application a separate sheet providing the exact web addresses to access your work. If your work is password protected, this information will also need to be included with your information sheet.
- If your work can easily be sent as zipped e-mail attachments please e-mail the portfolio to [email protected] once you have submitted your application.
- You may wish to include (but it is not mandatory) a brief written introduction to your portfolio, explaining the projects, the concepts you were exploring, the research that you did, the difficulties you encountered and how all of these contributed to the design process and influenced your work.
- Please ensure that you state your name, home institution and the date of each project, either on the work itself or on a separate document.
Due to limited capacity within our studios and other spaces, it may not always be possible for exchange students to take practical modules. Make sure you choose alternative modules in case our practical classes are full.