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Berghs and Ravensbourne announce partnership!

Digital media and design specialists, Ravensbourne, based in London, and communication school Berghs School of Communication, based in Stockholm, Sweden, have today announced a partnership. Ravensbourne will offer students within Berghs Bachelor to onto their second and third years in London, to complete their degrees.

January 25, 2018

Ravensbourne, which is based on the Greenwich Peninsula, London, will accept students into the first year of its undergraduate programme after students have successfully completed one semester at Berghs. The students will then continue onto their second and third years at Ravensbourne to complete their degrees. The first cohort of students from Berghs will start at Ravensbourne in January 2019.

Berghs students will be eligible to apply for places on BA (Hons) Graphic DesignBA (Hons) Digital Advertising and DesignBA (Hons) Motion GraphicsBA (Hons) Design ProductsBA (Hons) User-Experience and User-Interface (UX/UI) Design and BA (Hons) Illustration for Communication.

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Berghs School of Communication champions integration between students, disciplines, business, agencies and entrepreneurs and works closely with industry. It has been appointed “School of the Year” five times by the International Future Lions competition in Cannes and 97% of its students are in work within industry six months after graduating, a figure which mirrors Ravensbourne’s high employability rate*.

Ravensbourne Director, Professor Linda Drew said: “With Berghs fantastic reputation and similar ethos and vision we felt this was a really natural partnership for Ravensbourne. I’m very much looking forward to welcoming Berghs students and exploring our partnership further in the future.”

CEO, Berghs School of Communication, Camilla Wallander said: "Berghs has set a strategic direction with an international expansion as a significant part of our future growth. We consider London as an important market and wanted to find an innovative partner there. We are incredibly pleased to start working with Ravensbourne and we see the collaboration as a dynamic combination to ensure development for our students."

* 19 out of 20 Ravensbourne students are in employment or further study within 6 months of graduating (HESA 2015/16). The results are based on a national survey of 2015-2016 leavers.

About Ravensbourne

Ravensbourne is an innovative industry-focused higher education institution located in the East of London. We are champions of creativity and collaboration and offer practical digital media and design courses from pre-degree, undergraduate and postgraduate to professional short course level. We support students to work on briefs for high profile organisations such as BBC, Royal Shakespeare Company and Ford.

We are ranked 7 in the UK for art and design by the QS World University Rankings and have recently been given a Silver award for teaching and learning excellence from the government’s Teaching Excellence Framework.