Undergraduate Prospectus 2024

Undergraduate prospectus 2024

Undergraduate prospectus 2024

Student credit – Cristian Romero Geschier

Introduction

BA (Hons) Acting & Performance

BA/BSc (Hons) Advertising

BA (Hons) Animation

BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology*

BA (Hons) Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 1)

BA/BSc (Hons) Arts & Cultural Management

BA (Hons) Art History

BSc (Hons) Automotive & Transport Design*

BA/BSc (Hons) Business & Management

BA (Hons) Ceramics & Glass

BA (Hons) Comic & Concept Art

BMus (Hons) Composition for Screen

BSc (Hons) Computer Science*

BSc (Hons) Creative Computing*

BA (Hons) Design for Theatre & Screen

BA (Hons) Digital Art

BA/BSc (Hons) Digital Marketing & Social Media

BA/BSc (Hons) Digital Media & Magazine Publishing

BA/BSc (Hons) Events & Festivals Management

BA (Hons) Fashion Atelier & Tailoring

C = Canterbury

BA (Hons) Fashion Branding & Communication

BA/BSc (Hons) Fashion Business & Management

BA (Hons) Fashion Design

BA (Hons) Fashion Image & Styling

BA (Hons) Fashion Photography

BA (Hons) Film & Screen Studies

BA (Hons) Film Production

BA (Hons) Fine Art (Canterbury)

BA (Hons) Fine Art (Farnham)

BA (Hons) Games Animation

BA (Hons) Games Arts

BA (Hons) Games Design

BSc (Hons) Games Development

BA (Hons) Graphic Design

BA (Hons) Illustration

BSc (Hons) Industrial Design

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture

BA (Hons) Interior Decoration & Styling

BA (Hons) Interior Design

BA (Hons) Jewellery & Silversmithing

F = Farnham

M = Maidstone Television Studios

BA (Hons) Journalism & Communications*

BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture & Design*

BA (Hons) Make-up & Hair Design

BA (Hons) Modelmaking

BA (Hons) Music & Sound Production

BA/BSc (Hons) Music Business & Management

BA (Hons) Photo & Digital Journalism*

BA (Hons) Photography

BA (Hons) Printed Fashion Textiles

BA (Hons) Product & Furniture Design

BA (Hons) Television Production

BA (Hons) Textiles

BSc (Hons) Urban Design & Planning*

BSc (Hons) User Experience Design*

BA (Hons) Virtual & Augmented Reality

BA (Hons) Visual Communication

BA (Hons) Visual Effects

All courses correct at the time of going to print

Please note: In this prospectus, you’ll see testimonies and work from graduates whose courses have changed title over the years, and we’ve indicated these with ** next to those course names. For the latest list of our current courses, visit uca.ac.uk

Welcome from our President & Vice-Chancellor

Are you ready to use your talent to make a global impact? We are a university with more than 160 years of history, but are always looking forward. In a new age of digital technology and internationally connected business, we actively seek fresh perspectives from beyond our borders.

As a UCA student, you will be encouraged to do the same. We want to unleash your creative potential, help you develop new ways of working and thinking, and ultimately equip you to drive innovation in your chosen field. We will work with you to create a bespoke learning journey that embraces your own unique perspective and helps you meet your individual aspirations.

Our courses will hone your practical and analytical skills, whilst providing unparalleled opportunities to collaborate with creatives from across the globe. You will learn from academics who are acclaimed practitioners in their own right, with a wealth of experience working in the creative industries. Industry-connectedness is an integral part of our curriculum, providing you with opportunities to work with leading brands and develop your CV through work placements.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Professor Bashir Makhoul

Whether it’s research, student satisfaction,  or subject-specific achievements, it’s been a great time for UCA. More students than ever are undertaking UCA courses – 11,000 in total, from more than 90 different countries, are studying with us here in the UK, and around the world.

Every year we’re ranked by leading publications, and within industry, where we’ve seen continued improvement and growth. We were also recently rated on our research, through the Research Excellence Framework (REF), which happens every seven years. Check out our achievements below:

› UCA is the UK’s top specialist creative university for world-leading research outputs (REF 2021)

› The Guardian has ranked us the second specialist creative university in the UK for 2023

› The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023 has ranked us the third specialist creative university in the UK

› Architecture – we’re ranked third for student satisfaction on architecture courses by the Complete University Guide 2023, and 15th in the UK by the Guardian in 2023

› Business & Management – we’re ranked second for student satisfaction on business & management courses by the Complete University Guide 2023, and ninth of all UK universities for educating business founders (Hitachi, 2019)

› Communication & Media – we’re ranked top for student satisfaction among communication & media courses by  the Complete University Guide 2023, and fourth in the UK for journalism by the Guardian for 2023

› Fashion & Textiles – we’re ranked 12th  in the UK by the Guardian for 2023

› Games – UCA featured in The Rookies’ Top 50 Creative Media & Entertainment Schools and Colleges in the World 2022 for the first time, ranking 39th, and third in the UK

› Interior Design – we’re ranked 14th  in the UK by the Guardian for 2023

› Music – we’re ranked top for student satisfaction in music courses by the Complete University Guide 2023.

“The Guardian has ranked us the second specialist creative university in the UK for 2023.”

When UCA became a university, we wanted to do things differently. Looking around, we could see that other institutions were doing a great job of preparing their students for their chosen fields, giving them all the practical tools they needed to succeed in the roles that existed there and then. They still are.

The problem was that the world wasn’t just stationary. It still isn’t. As the pace of change accelerates daily, the future demands creative people who can ride that wave, endlessly carving out their own paths as they adapt and evolve to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world.

Some universities might think this is a tricky problem to solve. To us, it’s everything. At UCA, change is the stuff of life. It demands and breeds creativity. So we do, too.

In everything you do here, you’ll be preparing yourself to thrive in this glorious, shifting, evolving world.

What success means today will have changed again tomorrow. So we’ll help you unlock the mindset to continually create and recreate your own unique version of brilliance – whatever the future throws at you. Partly because life and work are just more fun that way. But also so that, when you graduate, you’ll know we really mean it when we tell you: ‘You’ve got this.’

“At UCA, change is the stuff of life. It demands and breeds creativity. So we do, too.”

Dear future student,

You might not have heard of Students’ Unions before, but all you really need to know is that we exist to ensure you have the best time possible at UCA. Over the years, we’ve won national awards for our work and are always striving to do new and better things. From improving your academic experience to facilitating social opportunities on campus, we represent the student voice across the university. This means that everything we do here at UCASU is for the benefit of our members, and we hope you’ll be one very soon!

Sol & Foysal

Membership from day one

Did you know that when you enrol on a course at UCA, you automatically become a member of UCASU? Led by and for students, UCASU is a registered charity that acts independently of the university to represent you and your interests. You can be as involved as you want with your Students’ Union. From joining clubs and societies to attending events or taking part in elections for Course Representatives and Union Council, there are lots of opportunities!

Union Council and Course Reps

Each year you’ll be invited to take part in UCASU elections. This is your opportunity to choose the representatives who will sit on the Union Council and act as the voice of students. UCASU also has elected Course Reps who represent your interests and relay feedback to the University to ensure you get the most from your course and have the best experience while studying at UCA.

Meet your union

Clubs, Societies, and Identity Communities

One UCASU highlight is that it creates opportunities for you to meet others, explore your non-academic interests, and discover new hobbies. So, whether you’re into K-pop dance, cheerleading, sports or culture, or you’re looking to be part of our disabled or LGBTQ+ communities, there’s something for everyone.

Activities and support

Throughout the year, UCASU hosts events and activities that you are more than welcome to join in with and support. And if you find yourself with a problem, or you’re ever struggling and need some independent advice, there’s a wealth of information and support available through your union. You’ll find a UCASU office in each campus, right in the heart of things, so make sure to say hello and get involved! And if you want to keep on top of the latest news, events, and opportunities, you’ll find it on most social media platforms with the @ucasu tag.

“One UCASU highlight is that it creates opportunities for you to meet others, explore your non-academic interests, and discover new hobbies.”

Helping you towards your creative career 19

When thinking about your career, there’s only one thing as important as your education – and that’s building industry experience. At UCA, we’re laser-focused on helping you get ready for a career in the creative industries, which means exposing you to opportunities while you study so that, by the time you graduate, you will have a CV that showcases both your academic skills and your experience. From live industry briefs and work placements through to Professional Practice Years, there’s an option to suit you.

Work placements

Preparing graduates for successful careers underpins everything we do, and all students are offered an industry placement lasting anywhere between two weeks and a year, depending on their individual needs. We’ll draw on our wide range of contacts within the creative industries to ensure you’re offered opportunities that align with your interests and career aspirations.

Professional Practice Years

Many of our undergraduate degrees offer the option of an additional Professional Practice Year. If you choose this route, you’ll take a study break between years two and three to go on a year-long placement related to your studies. Learn more on the course pages at uca.ac.uk

Live industry briefs

One of the most exciting features of UCA degree courses is the opportunity to take part in live industry briefs, and competitions for real businesses. You’ll collaborate on designs, creative briefs and proposals that will prepare you for the world of work and

support you in making lifelong professional connections.

Careers and Professional Practice

UCA’s Careers and Professional Practice  team will be with you every step of the way as you take your first steps into the creative industries, both during and after your studies. They’ll help you find opportunities for placements and provide in-depth guidance on how to secure them, as well as supporting you to find freelancing opportunities, and even your first job as a graduate. Beyond that, the team offer guidance on competition entries and awards applications, and organise career-related presentations, workshops, and events.

“By the time you graduate, you will have a CV that showcases both your academic skills and your experience.”

What I learned at UCA 20

UCA is many things to many different people, but don’t take our word for it! A few of our current and former students reveal what UCA taught them about their chosen subject – and themselves:

Hannah Bamgbala

Fashion Media & Promotion**

I was blessed to come across UCA during my extensive search and, during my first visit, I knew that UCA was the place for me. The environment was warm and friendly, and it felt like home. Home is what UCA became. I loved the support that came from UCA from the start of my journey to the very end.

Sarah Barnes

Fashion Journalism**

I was really sold on the open day when I first visited the campus and listened to the inspiring talks from the lecturers. The whole environment, and the way we were really encouraged to explore whatever creative path we wanted to, was a real pull for me. I thought, ‘why wait to specialise when I know that going into fashion and the creative industries is what I really want to do?’ I ultimately knew that UCA was the place to help me get there.

Youngdae Lee

Film Production

Looking back, the most important thing I learned at UCA is the discovery of passion and possibility. While studying movies, I fell in love with movies more. My passion led to opportunities for submitting films and that, in turn, uncovered more possibilities.

Faris Hattas

Business & Management

The course gives you so much creative freedom. You learn a lot about yourself from that, and you start to grow. For me personally, I have noticed a huge difference between the work I produced when I started the course, and where I am right now. That is all because of our great lecturers, who are always there  to motivate and push us to be as creative as we can. One of my favourite things about the course is how it challenges us to expand our creative skills.

Chantelle Rogers

Fine Art (Canterbury)

My experience at UCA so far has been very enjoyable. Life on the Fine Art course is collaborative and creative – we are always encouraged to experiment with our work and the tutors have really helped me throughout the course. It was surprising to me that UCA could offer so many opportunities: I’ve travelled, I’ve collaborated with lots of other students, participated in Fine Art exhibitions, worked with the Student Union, volunteered as a course representative. Everything along the way has helped me in my own practice as an artist.

Beti Bara Advertising

UCA’s Advertising course was exactly what I expected and nothing like I expected at the same time – my experience was very self-paced. I chose which disciplines and mediums I wanted to explore, and to what extent. This combination of exploration and practice proved to be so helpful in understanding who I am as a creative, and

how to combine my creative skills with others’. The biggest highlight has probably been getting a taste for the industry’s highs and lows, from frustrating late nights to the glorious revelations of cracking difficult briefs. So many of my favourite moments circle around those ups and downs; they always remind me how much I love doing what I’m doing.

Jamahyl Chan-Ellis Acting & Performance

My journey at UCA was my transition from being a teenager to a fully-fledged adult. Moving away from home, living with new housemates, learning new skills, maintaining relationships among family/friends, managing money, adjusting to Farnham, developing my acting skills, and keeping my mental health stable – it truly was a whirlwind. Looking back, I would say all the performances were fun, especially the final dissertation piece. Having the freedom to create our own work or collaborate with others for our final piece of work was great.

The freedom the course gives you (for the most part) works really well, especially for someone like me, who is very independent. The great thing was that all my teachers made time for me if I needed advice or feedback.

Lucas Salvador Games Arts

I couldn’t see myself having a better preparation for the games industry than this course. The proximity to one of the largest game development centres in the world, in Guildford, is also a massive perk.

Student credit – Jamahyl Chan-Ellis

“The biggest highlight has probably been getting a taste for the industry’s highs and lows, from frustrating late nights to the glorious revelations of cracking difficult briefs.”

What happened next

After you leave UCA, your skills can take you anywhere. These graduates’ journeys offer exciting examples of the varied and wonderful career paths you could embark upon.

Ben Pearey

Ceramics graduate Ben has been named one of the top names to watch within the craft. His work features in the book Contemporary British Ceramics: Beneath the Surface and he has been exhibited at Eton College.

Ben Pechey

Ben has been busy since they graduated from UCA in 2018. They’ve released The Book of Non-Binary Joy, and they’re also a speaker, content creator, LGBTQIA Advocate, and Diversity and Inclusion consultant. They’ve worked with major brands such as Amazon Prime, Oliver Bonas, Matalan, and the NSPCC.

Craig Luck

A short story penned while studying for a degree in Film Production turned into something far larger for Craig. His tale, FINCH, became an Apple TV+ movie, starring Tom Hanks in the title role. He has also worked behind the scenes on movies including Doctor Strange, Annihilation, and Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Georgina Sadler

After graduating in Graphic Design, Georgina moved into television, and now enjoys a career in the fast lane as an assistant producer for Sky Sports F1.

Lucy Noble

Film Production graduate Lucy has forged her career in the world of script supervision, ensuring continuity. She’s worked on productions such as Marvel Studios’ Black Widow, season one of hit series Devs, the Elton John musical Rocketman, and Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, among many amazing movies and TV shows.

Mollie Ward

Mollie founded her own fashion brand, SoMonroe, while studying for her degree in Fashion Journalism**. Her clothes are now worn by the likes of Bella Hadid, Nicki Minaj, and Nicole Scherzinger.

Phoebe Fox

Phoebe discovered a love for photography during her Music Marketing & Promotion** degree and has merged the two in an incredible career photographing the likes of The Amazons and Anne-Marie.

Tihara Smith

Tihara’s Windrush-inspired final collection for her Fashion degree has turned into an exciting career – with an entire accessories collection and pop-up shop in London just part of her journey so far.

24 At the pinnacle of creativity

UCA has had a wealth of talented creatives reach the very top of their respective fields – here are some of our best-known:

At the pinnacle of creativity

Will McGregor – Film and TV director (Misfits, Gwen, His Dark Materials). BA (Hons) Digital Film & Screen Art**

Chris Butler – Animator and film director (Coraline, Missing Link). BA (Hons) Animation

Stephen Webster – Jeweller. Jewellery Design** (Medway College of Art)

Rose Ayling-Ellis – Actor, winner of Strictly Come Dancing 2021. BA (Hons) Fashion Design

Jamie Windust – Author, public speaker, and LGBTQ+ activist. BA (Hons) Fashion Management & Marketing**

David Hulin – Designer and animator for major advertising and brand campaigns (GEICO, M&Ms, FedEx). BA (Hons) Animation

Banksy – Artist and activist. Honorary Professor of Fine Art

Kate Herron – Director (Loki, Sex Education). BA (Hons) Film Production

Dame Zandra Rhodes – Fashion and textiles designer. Printed Textile Art** (Medway College of Art)

Naomi Campbell – International supermodel. Honorary Doctor of Fashion

A global approach

We believe all our students should have access to global creativity, influence, and learning. So, whether you’re a UK student, a student coming to the UK to join a creative course, or a student at one of our international partner centres – such as The Millennium College in Pakistan or the Institute of Creativity and Innovation (ICI), our joint institution with Xiamen University, China – you’ll find that UCA offers you courses with a global outlook, as well as an international network of friends and peers. Our commitment to playing a part in international creativity runs through everything we do. Our UK campuses are home to more than 3,000 students from more than 80 countries, which helps us to foster a rich and diverse community that makes our conversations and creations all the more exciting.

As our Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Bashir Makhoul says: “At UCA, we take a fully global approach to creative education, embracing perspectives and cultural references from around the world. No matter where you’re from, people have a desire to create, innovate, and change the narrative.”

We are proud to have established partnerships with institutions around the world, and to be conducting field-leading research that takes our work worldwide. Meanwhile, our curriculum has a global outlook at its heart. No matter what you study, your boundaries won’t be constrained to UK shores. You’ll learn historical contexts, theories, and practices from around the world – from world cinema to the global music industry, and contemporary art to textile dyeing techniques – and have opportunities to work with brands and businesses internationally.

“Our campuses are home to more than 3,000 students from more than 80 countries, which helps us to foster a rich and diverse community.”

Worldwide opportunities

UCA is all about global influence, experience, and expertise – so if your horizons extend beyond UK borders, we’ve got you covered. During your studies you’ll have the opportunity to go abroad to study or to volunteer. Whichever you choose, you’ll return with new perspectives, fantastic memories, and another string to your creative bow.

Semester exchange

If you are interested in studying abroad, there are lots of options for you to consider in Europe, America, Australia and Asia, and UCA’s exchange teams will visit campuses in your first semester to tell you more about it. The length (three or four years) of the degree you choose and the discipline will determine both the duration of your time abroad and the destination. We work with exchange partner institutions around the world, encompassing the majority of our study areas. You can find out more at uca.ac.uk/study-abroad

and Think Pacific, which operates in Fiji – so that you can give back to communities across the globe with your time, effort, and skills. Volunteering programmes include delivering creative arts programmes in rural villages, helping with mental health awareness, sports programmes, and youth empowerment.

BA (Hons) Printed Fashion Textiles student Jacob Morgan took his first ever  trip abroad to visit Fiji and undertake a one-month mental health placement.

“The purpose of my trip was to promote mental health awareness. I wanted to use skills I’ve learned during my time at UCA to help the local community use art to help them when feeling down and to understand what they can do to feel better. Any students thinking about doing something like this – just do it! It was my first time flying and everyone thought I was mad to get on a 24-hour flight, but it was the best experience ever. I made friends and would love to go back.”

The organisations UCA work with operate around the world and are subject to change.

The Turing Scheme

As a UCA student you may be able to get funding help for your travels abroad through The UK government’s Turing Scheme. To find out more, visit turing-scheme.org.uk

Volunteering abroad

UCA currently works with several organisations based around the world – including Challenges Abroad, which works in Cambodia, Thailand and Nepal,

“During your studies you’ll have the opportunity to go abroad to study or to volunteer. Whichever you choose, you’ll return with new perspectives, fantastic memories, and another string to your creative bow.”

Our libraries 31

Our libraries are amazing – offering great spaces to study, a wide range of computing, printing and copying services, helpful and dedicated staff, and access to our unique specialist arts collection, which includes:

› 400,000 print and electronic books and exhibition catalogues

› 17,000 print and electronic journals and magazines

› 500 metres of archives, including the work of Tessa Boffin and Bob Godfrey

› 17,000 DVDs

› More than two million films, television and radio shows online

› A wide range of special collections, including zines and artists’ books

› 80 academic and visual databases.

In each library, our team of advisers will help you make the most of our resources. You can borrow items from any one of our campuses and if we don’t have what you need, we’ll do our very best to track it down for you. You’ll have course-specific reading lists and resources available to you via your virtual learning space myUCA, which also contains your course information, timetables, and assignments. Our libraries also offer specialist help (see p.32) to aid your learning. Whether you’re looking for a quiet place to study or somewhere to work in a group, there are lots of different spaces in our libraries – from learning pods to meeting and seminar rooms, as well as open access computing facilities. We also have social spaces where you can sit back, relax and catch up, or browse our wide range of specialist online and print magazines, newspapers, and journals.

“Whether you’re looking for a quiet place to study or somewhere to work in a group, there are lots  of different spaces in our libraries – from learning pods to meeting and seminar rooms.”

Supporting you at UCA 32

Coming to university is, for a lot of students, the first big life decision. Choosing a university, and a course, is just the start.

At UCA we want to help you through the process of applying – and support you while you’re with us. And that doesn’t just mean offering general information, but also a listening ear, help when you need it and, sometimes, more practical assistance.

Whether you need a hand finding that essential book, sourcing some specialist equipment for a project, help when a bulb blows in your accommodation, or looking for a part-time job, there are teams of staff around UCA to help you.

In each of our libraries you’ll find our student services team, who can help you in a number of ways:

Specialist Advisers

This team offer confidential, practical, and personal support with issues such as managing money, relationships with family, friends or roommates, visa applications and extensions, or familiarising yourself with UK life.

Wellbeing and Counselling Service

This is the place to go for support with your mental health and wellbeing. Our team will work with you to create a plan to help address your worries or concerns. We also have a university-wide wellbeing app full of useful tips and tools, and offer access to 24/7 online support.

Disability and Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD)

If you have a disability or condition that you choose to let us know about, we have

a dedicated team at each campus who  can support you. They’ll work with you to understand your needs, help you apply for things like Disabled Students’ Allowance, and put tailored support in place.

Designated Members of Staff

If you’re a care leaver, a student who is  in care, or a young carer yourself, we can offer specialised support throughout  your entire university experience. Your designated member of staff will act as a point of reference for you and any carers or professionals working with you, ensuring seamless and confidential support throughout.

Library and Learning Support

We have Advisers in each library to help you get the very best from our library resources and services, Liaison Librarians who can provide information and guidance on how to search, use and reference our collections, and Learning Development Tutors to help you develop your academic skills, including managing your time effectively, understanding your assessment, and improving your academic writing.

For more information, visit: uca.ac.uk/life-at-uca

Student credit – Vivien Lau Wee Na

The future is now 37

With a 160-year legacy of nurturing talent and imagination, UCA has plenty of great stories about how our students, staff, and alumni have broken new ground and pioneered fresh approaches across every creative discipline.

But it’s not in our nature to spend too long reliving history – we believe passionately that the best tribute to those who came before us is to build on their work by leading the way in today’s creative industries. We focus on looking forward, anticipating trends, and preparing students for the future. We do this by offering world-leading courses that bring together a global outlook and the very latest in technology. Here’s just some of what we’ve put in place to future-proof your learning:

Creative Technology

Our refitted and state-of-the-art John Luard Building at UCA Farnham is packed floor-to-ceiling with top-level computer hardware and software. From dual monitor Alienware workstations with the very latest graphics cards, to 24-inch Wacom Cintiq Pro tablets and a range of development studios, there’s everything you need to create digital worlds, characters, and playable game prototypes.

There are also software and facilities for VR- and AR-immersive narrative, world-building and experience design, motion capture facilities (in both dedicated spaces and portable setups), and 3D printing to create tangible realisations of your digital characters.

Andy Bossom, Programme Director for our Games courses, says: “The world of games and creative technology is an exciting and constantly evolving area of the creative industries that has been seeing exceptional growth in recent years. At UCA we have everything a student needs to get started

on their career and to adapt those highly transferable skillsets to a wealth of industry pathways, from entertainment games to simulations, and concept art to gamification of learning, as well as serious and applied games.”

Virtual Production Studio

The technology harnessed in the filming of the Disney+ hit series The Mandalorian, using bleeding edge technology such as virtual production, is an increasingly popular choice for those looking for something more dynamic than just green screen. Our new Virtual Production Studio at UCA Farnham replicates the contemporary interdisciplinary film studio experience, combining CGI, game engines, and virtual reality technologies to provide real-time immersive storytelling production workflows. By having access to these facilities, and becoming skilled in operating them, you’ll graduate with highly sought-after skills.

World-first courses

We were the first university in the world to offer a degree in Digital Fashion using industry-standard software packages such as Marvellous Designer. This rapidly growing sector of the industry, which is currently setting trends in the luxury market and the metaverse, could soon become a part of everyday online shopping experiences and digital economies. Our MA in Digital Fashion is a natural progression for fashion students, but also those coming from gaming or post production VFX backgrounds. Still in the postgraduate fashion sphere, we recently launched our first fully online MA course in Global Fashion Cultures, which allows anyone from anywhere in the world to gain a UCA qualification.

Our research community

Research. It’s the kind of thing you most commonly hear about in the health sector, as people in lab coats chase life-saving medical breakthroughs. But research is embedded in our culture at UCA, too. And your journey with it begins when you start your undergraduate degree. Research helps us to back up our claims and dig deeper into any given topic – from ceramics all the way through to social commentary on popular games.

As you progress through your studies, you’ll come to rely on research to help you investigate topics and develop your work. Your relationship with it will grow and change as you start to use it not just to support your claims, but also to make your own discoveries.

Meanwhile, our academics are leading the way in creative research that is actively changing the way we all work and live. It’s for this reason we were named the UK’s top specialist art and design university for world-leading research outputs (REF, 2021) We’ve recently opened our Doctoral College at Rochester House in Canterbury, giving our many PhD students, as well as our academics, a base for their research. Here are just some of the exciting projects they are currently running:

“Our academics are leading the way in creative research that is actively changing the way we all work and live.”

Fast Forward

Led by Anna, Fast Forward is designed to promote and engage with women in photography worldwide. The project has published a full report with recommendations on how to amplify women’s voices in the field, along with a book, Putting Ourselves In The Picture.

Centre for Sustainable Design Professor

The Centre for Sustainable Design leads and participates in future-shaping research focused on sustainable innovation and product sustainability, from finding innovative uses for retired fishing nets and cricket equipment to running the successful Farnham Repair Café.

Etude for Virtual Space

Alexandros, a composer and expert in music and its relationship with philosophy, created a VR experience featuring a string quartet within a virtual environment, which users can navigate to experience interactive sounds, shapes, and colours.

Architecture Programme Director Sam created an app that allows architects to virtually map spaces and visualise the human experience of navigating an environment.

Professor Anna Fox

Isovist Sam McElhinney

Professor Alexandros Spyrou

Martin Charter

Our campuses

UCA Canterbury

With its historic surroundings and café culture, Canterbury is a lovely place to explore while you study at UCA. Our relaxed and friendly campus, with its architecture studios, design labs, and fine art facilities, is located just on the edge of the city. The Cathedral and an array of shops, cafés and restaurants are only a short walk away. You’ll discover new things all the time, with a wealth of attractions, galleries and museums on offer. And on sunny days, it’s only a quick bus ride away from the Kent coastline.

Popular spots for students include The Penny Theatre pub, which offers live sport, meal deals, karaoke, and quizzes. For a tasty snack on the go, look no further than Cité Crêpes. You can catch blockbusters and the best indie releases at the Curzon Cinema or have a day out at Howletts Wild Animal Park for something completely different. Westgate Gardens, which run alongside the River Stour, are a favourite hangout of students in the area, and we couldn’t talk about Canterbury without recommending a visit to the Cathedral to admire its impressive architecture and stained-glass windows.

Canterbury facilities

Our Canterbury campus is home to architecture, design, fine art and visual communications courses. It has a wealth of facilities for you to enjoy, experiment with and master as you explore your course:

› Large, accessible machine workshop equipped with a mixture of hand tools and machinery including CNC routing and milling machines

› Digital Fabrication Lab where you can use laser cutters and 3D/SLS printers

› Print Bureau with multiple options on finishing and papers, offering self-service and bespoke printing to professional standards

› Sculpture studios equipped with resins, kilns and facilities for moulding, casting, welding, and plasma cutting

› Painting studio, where you can construct frames and stretchers, as well as use traditional painting techniques and materials

› Printmaking studios for screen-printing, litho, offset, lino cutting, and etching

› Three fully equipped digital media suites with the latest Macs and PCs running up-to-date software

› Colour and black and white darkrooms for developing film, cyanotype, and the use of industry-standard film processors

› Photographic studio, where you can book photoshoots and document your portfolio of work

› Animation suite installed with specialist software, high-end drawing tablets, and scanners

› Doctoral College and Visual Communication studios (Rochester House).

Canterbury accommodation

At Canterbury, we offer accommodation options both on- and off-campus, and both are a stone’s throw from the action of the city. Whether you choose to stay in UCA halls or opt for a privately rented place to stay, such as a house share, our accommodation teams will be on hand to help you get settled in.

Ian Dury House

From £150 per week (2022–23 rates). Our on-campus accommodation has nine self-catering flats, which can house up to six students each. In each flat, you’ll find:

› Single rooms with en-suite bathrooms

› A shared kitchen/communal area with cookers and fridge-freezers, plus small appliances including kettles and microwaves

› One washing machine and condenser tumble dryer

› One television aerial socket

› Parking

(for those with a special requirement)

› One flat is adapted for students with disabilities.

Riverside Student Quarter

From £155 per week (2022–23 rates). Our newest accommodation option, the Riverside Student Quarter, is a 20-minute walk from campus. It has 120 en-suite rooms clustered into flats of either six or eight bedrooms, plus a shared kitchen space with everything you need to enjoy meals and social time.

Additionally, there’s a communal lounge with a TV for movie and game nights, a shared courtyard with a games area, an extra communal kitchen that can be booked out, a study area with booths/desks, and a fitness suite featuring yoga mats, exercise balls, and spin bikes.

Private accommodation

Private accommodation is a popular option for students, although there is more to consider if you take this route. We can help you find somewhere you like and guide you through the process.

Here to help

You can find out more about our accommodation, our services, our contact details, and our Accommodation Guarantee for first-year students at: uca.ac.uk/accommodation

UCA Epsom 47

Our Epsom campus is located just on the edge of the town centre of Epsom, where you’ll find everything you need – from shops, bars, cafés and restaurants, to nights and days out. Popular spots include Rosebery Park, which is opposite the university, for socialising and relaxing, and The Faraday pub, which offers regular karaoke, bottomless brunches, live sport, weekly quizzes, and an extensive vegan menu. For shopping, there’s the Ashley Centre shopping mall, together with a large range of high-street stores. If you want a bigger day out, you’re close to the Thorpe Park and Chessington World of Adventures theme parks and Epsom Downs racecourse, and a short train ride from central London. There’s also the Epsom Playhouse, which hosts a range of regular touring shows, well-known stand-up comics, and tribute acts.

Our Epsom campus hosts our creative business, fashion and textiles courses,  and has a wealth of facilities for you to enjoy, experiment with and master as you study:

› Fashion studios with sewing facilities

› Dedicated Fashion Atelier machine rooms and pattern-cutting studios

› Digital Fashion studio

› Textiles studios

› Make-up and hair design salon

› Digital print studio with large and small format printing, bookbinding, guillotine, perfect binding, vinyl cutting, and dry mounting

› Screen-printing studio for traditional printing

› Facilities for traditional oil-based print including intaglio, relief, and hot metal letterpress equipment

› Sound studio with equipped sound booth

› Woodwork and plaster studios

› Fully equipped photographic studios

› Laser cutter and 3D-printing facilities

› Within the Business School for the Creative Industries, there’s also a dedicated building containing a 250-seat auditorium, seminar rooms, video conferencing, board rooms, IT studios, and breakout spaces.

Epsom accommodation

You’ll find a range of accommodation available here, from on- and off-campus halls of residence to private rentals in the town.

Worple Road

£172 per week (2022–23 rates). Located on campus, our Worple Road residence has eight flats housing 54 students.

Bradford House

£187 per week (2022–23 rates). Around ten minutes’ walk from campus, this new accommodation houses up to 99 students, with up to eight students per flat.

Crossways House

£187 per week (2022–23 rates). Around ten minutes’ walk from campus, Crossways House is home to up to 99 students. Each flat has up to eight bedrooms.

All these accommodations feature:

› En-suite facilities in each room

› A shared kitchen/communal area with white goods and small appliances

› Warden/security staff on duty overnight and at weekends

› Internet access.

Wilberforce Court

£161 per week (2022–23 rates). Located on campus, these 12 flats are for 70 students in total. Features include:

› Shared facilities – one shower room/toilet per three students

› Single bed, bookcase, desk, chair, and wardrobe in each room

› A shared kitchen/communal area with white goods and small appliances

› Warden/security staff on duty overnight and at weekends

› Internet access.

Private accommodation

Private accommodation is a popular option for students, although there is more to consider if you take this route. We can help you find somewhere you like and guide you through the process.

Here to help

You can find out more about our accommodation, our services, our contact details, and our Accommodation Guarantee for first-year students at: uca.ac.uk/accommodation

UCA Farnham

With its market-town charm, World Craft Town status and excellent transport links to London, the South East and the south coast, Farnham has plenty to offer.

Our campus here has extensive specialist facilities and a large on-site halls community. It sits a stone’s throw away from the picturesque Lion and Lamb Yard and a host of cafés, restaurants, pubs, and independent shops.

Students’ favourite venues include the Slug & Lettuce and The Lost Boy pubs in the town centre, together with a Starbucks close to campus. For a bit of culture, you’ll find a lively programme of shows, stand-up comedy, films, and activities at Farnham Maltings, and popular nightlife venues such as The Star Inn and Komo nightclub are just a short bus or train ride away in Guildford.

For shopping, there’s plenty of choice, with a range of charity shops, bookstores, Elphick’s department store, Pullingers Art Shop, and 101 Collectors Records among the highlights.

You’ll also find stunning spots for countryside walks close to Farnham, including Bourne Woods, where many blockbuster movies have been filmed, and Caesar’s Camp, which gives spectacular views across Surrey and Hampshire.

Our Farnham campus is home to our film, performing arts, fine art, photography, animation, crafts, graphic design, illustration, creative technology and games courses, and has a wealth of facilities for you to enjoy, experiment with and master as you study:

› Multiple film soundstages with industry-standard lighting facilities

› Virtual Production and Motion Capture studio

› State-of-the-art Avid/Media Composer post-production video editing and sound editing (Pro Tools) studios

› Cinema

› Animation studios with Mac workstations, lightboxes, line testers and high-speed batch scanners

› Animation rostrum rooms set up to capture stop-frame animation on Dragonframe

› Analogue film processing and darkrooms (colour and black and white) and digital imaging studio

› Photography studios with an infinity table

› Digital print bureau providing a professional print and finishing service using an extensive range of materials, paper types, sizes, and finishes

› Book-finishing room which provides spiral- and perfect-binding options along with paper-handling machines for creating handouts and booklets

› Live performance room with musical instruments, control room for sound mixing, dubbing theatre, radio studios, and foley studio

› Environments and specialist equipment to support hand and mechanical processes for working ceramic, glass, wood, metal, plastics, and jewellery, and a foundry for casting bronze and aluminium

Farnham facilities

› Digital and traditional looms for woven textiles and associated dye facilities

› Digital Fabrication Lab with laser cutters and 3D/SLS printing facilities

› Dedicated performance and rehearsal spaces

› Traditional printmaking workshop including equipment for intaglio, relief, screen-printing and letterpress

› Three-camera digital television studio, networked to our broadcast newsroom and using industry-leading autocue software

› Dedicated School of Games and Creative Technology building with high-end games creation/experiencing environments and facilities, immersive VR studios, 3D printing, animation, and games audio resources

› Comic and Concept Art digital studio with Wacom drawing tablets.

Our biggest campus at Farnham naturally has our biggest halls. There are two options on site:

› A shared kitchen/communal area with cookers and fridge-freezers, plus small appliances including kettles and microwaves

› 16 en-suite bedrooms, predominantly allocated to students with medical conditions and/or a disability

› Internet access

› Student wardens on-site for out-of-hours needs.

Private accommodation

University Walk

£187 per week (2022–23 rates). Our newest accommodation, located next to our Film & Media Centre and library, comprises five buildings. Features include:

› Flats accommodating eight students per flat

› Six fully accessible bedrooms for students with disabilities

› En-suite single bedrooms throughout, with shelving, a desk and chair, wardrobes, and additional storage

› A shared kitchen/communal area in each flat with cookers and fridge-freezers, plus small appliances including kettles and microwaves

› Student wardens on-site for out-of-hours needs

› Internet access.

Student Village

From £125 per week (2022–23 rates). Our Student Village comprises 45 purpose-built houses containing up to eight single bedrooms each. Features include:

› Shared facilities – two showers and two toilets per house

› Washbasin, workspace, wardrobe and bookcase/shelving in each bedroom

Private accommodation is a popular option for students, although there is more to consider if you take this route. We can help you find somewhere you like and guide you through the process.

Here to help

You can find out more about our accommodation, our services, our contact details, and our Accommodation Guarantee for first-year students at: uca.ac.uk/accommodation

“Farnham’s halls of residence are home to around 600 students, so you’ll be sure to find new friends and feel part of our creative community.”

Maidstone Television Studios

If you’re considering joining our BA (Hons) Television Production degree course, you’ll be spending your time at Maidstone Television Studios, where we have a unique partnership in place. You’ll have the opportunity to study at the UK’s largest regional independent TV broadcast facility, where some of the UK’s most recognisable shows have been filmed for the last 40 years. You’ll be right in the heart of the action and, supported by our dedicated work placement co-ordinator, benefit from a range of professional opportunities during your studies. Students have worked behind the scenes on the likes of Catchphrase, I Can See Your Voice, Empire of Light, and Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny. Our learning environment inside the studios is spacious, friendly and packed with all the facilities and resources you need to hone your skills, including access to live galleries, editing suites and an audio booth, as well as a fully stocked equipment store and library.

The town

Maidstone is a vibrant town in Kent with plenty to keep you entertained. It has excellent shopping, museums, galleries, and events throughout the year, as well as stunning local countryside. After hours, you’ll find dozens of restaurants, bars and pubs to enjoy, and you’re just an hour away from London by train.

Private accommodation

There are no halls accommodation options for Maidstone, so you’ll need to seek private accommodation when you study here. Our accommodation team are more than happy to help you with this process, and you can find more information at: uca.ac.uk/accommodation

Our courses

Choosing the right course

Many students who apply to UCA already have a passion for a particular creative field, or a specific career goal in mind. But a lot don’t! If that’s you, there’s no need to worry. We understand it can be hard to narrow your choices down to one subject when you have a wide range of interests, but honestly, your open-mindedness, curiosity and desire to experiment can be just as much of an asset as a laser-focused ambition.

If you’re struggling to decide what to study, here are a few questions to ask yourself.

When did you last lose track of time?

Is there something you get so absorbed in doing that you forget everything else? Think about what interests you and what you enjoy doing most. Make a list. Does anything stand out as something you could make a career in? Or something you’d want to spend a lot more time learning about?

When you imagine your future, what does it look like?

Lots of students say, when choosing their course, they thought about where they wanted to end up professionally and worked backwards, looking at the qualifications they needed to get there. Even if you don’t have a specific job in mind, something as simple as thinking about the kind of environment you want to work in will give you some valuable clues.

How much do you want to specialise?

If you want to keep your career options as open as possible, it’s worth considering broader, more theoretical courses (e.g. Fine Art) that develop a wide range of skills relevant to lots of careers. Check out the

course pages on our website to see what graduates in different subjects have gone on to do.

What are you good at?

While it’s admirable to thrive on a challenge, most students say they’ve tried to play to their strengths. That might mean having a specific talent you want to take to the next level, or just choosing a subject that gives you opportunities to shine at things you do well. For example, great problem-solvers might suit Architecture or Product & Furniture Design, the super-organised could excel at Events & Festivals Management, and those with an eye for what makes people tick may find a marketing-focused course is their thing. You might simply feel you’re stronger in practical areas than theoretical ones (or vice versa) and want to bear that in mind when making your choice.

How would you describe yourself?

Happy to dedicate days to creating one perfect piece or work, or developing a new skill? Looking for a path that leads you into contact with lots of different people? Enjoy fast-paced learning that ranges from topic to topic? Your personality will have a big influence on the kind of course you will enjoy, so think about the type of learning you like, and consider the courses that allow you to spend the most time in your preferred ‘zone’.

And don’t forget, we’re here to help you decide! You can chat to current students across different subject areas on the UCA website, or contact our Admissions team with any questions about different courses and subjects.

Choosing your learning journey 61

At UCA, we understand that not everyone joins our courses from the same starting point, and that what you are looking for from your studies is unique to you. That’s why we offer several options to tailor your course to suit your needs – whether that means adding an Integrated Foundation Year to bridge the gap between your previous experience and your chosen degree, or choosing a route that gives you some added professional experience before you graduate. Or even doing both! Here’s a roundup of your options.

Standard BA/BSc/BMus (Hons) degree

Our most popular option, this route involves going straight from A Levels (or equivalent) to undergraduate study in your chosen subject. For students following this route, degree courses take three years to complete.

Integrated Foundation Year

If you’re a UK student and have never studied a creative subject before, or need to develop your portfolio and skills before starting your degree, an Integrated Foundation Year will prepare you for undergraduate study, giving you confidence, solid knowledge of creative practice, and essential study skills. You’ll explore a range of creative techniques, and develop your portfolio within your chosen subject area. If you’ve applied to our standard route and we think you might benefit from this one instead, we’ll get in touch to discuss it with you.

Professional Practice Year

If you want to get a solid chunk of built-in professional experience as part of your degree, you might want to consider our Professional Practice Year route.  This gives you the chance to take a study  break between years two and three of your undergraduate course and go on a year-long placement related to your studies – for example, you might spend the year working in a fashion house, retail brand, magazine, or cosmetics company, before returning to UCA for your final year of study and graduating with an enhanced CV.

Learn more on our course pages at: uca.ac.uk

“At UCA, we understand  that not everyone joins our courses from the same starting point, and that what you are looking for from your studies is unique to you.”

Create your own stories, tell the stories of others, and learn the skills to present them on stage and screen on our Acting & Performance degree at UCA Farnham. Our immersive degree is about preparing you for a theatre or film career in the modern landscape – with an awareness of equality, diversity, and inclusion in the industry, and of cultural and global influences. We’ll also make sure you leave with the entrepreneurial skills you need to move with the times. You’ll benefit from the insight and experience of our academic team, opportunities to learn from actors, screenwriters, directors, and theatre makers, and our partnership with Farnham Maltings. This partnership, and your proximity to UCA Farnham’s Film & Media Centre, will allow you to learn in large performance spaces and studios with access to sound recording studios and filmmaking equipment. You’ll also have the chance to collaborate with students across our film and media courses to make amazing work.

BA (Hons) Acting & Performance Course

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W410

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA/BSc (Hons) Advertising

The best advertisements don’t just sell products – they become part of a wider conversation, taking on a life of their own. We’ll give you the tools to turn your ideas into impactful, eye-catching campaigns.

This course offers you a unique opportunity to blend academic excellence with professional experience, taught  by established practitioners with connections to some of the biggest names in the industry, including Ogilvy, Adam & Eve, and Anomaly. You’ll be encouraged to create fresh and attention-grabbing projects across a range of platforms, working collaboratively with your peers across other courses to bring them to life. Previous students have gone on to win awards from D&AD, Chip Shop and The Drum. With study areas and digital media suites equipped with Macs and PCs running the latest specialist software, as well as the chance to visit some prestigious advertising agencies, you’ll leave fully prepared for a job in industry, graduating with high-level skills in art direction, copywriting, and digital media.

Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: N561

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Animation

Calling all budding animators! If you’re keen to forge a career within the world of animation, then look no further than our renowned degree course.

Established in 1972 by Academy Award winner Bob Godfrey, ours is one of the best-known and most highly regarded animation courses in the world, with graduates going on to create iconic characters such as Hey Duggee, Peppa Pig and Compare the Market’s Meerkats. Whatever your preferred medium – whether you want to make animated films using CGI, traditional drawing, oil on glass, sand animation, or pixelation – you’ll be encouraged to follow your passions and aim high.

To help you achieve this, you’ll have access to our incredible facilities, including a stop motion studio with Dragonframe Capture, professional camera equipment,  and stages pre-rigged with grips, stands, and lights. Not to mention our fully kitted-out computer suites with the latest Adobe, Toon Boom, and Maya CG software. Along the way, we’ll support you with our extensive knowledge, experience, and industry contacts, providing everything you need to become an innovative storyteller and artist.

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W615

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BSc (Hons)

Architectural Technology*

Becoming an architectural technologist requires specialist skills and confidence. On this course, you’ll gain all this and more as you learn how to assist construction design teams in bringing new structures to life.

You’ll learn a wide range of spatial practices and discover more about the value this specialism adds to architectural practice and society on a wider level. As well as having  access to our extensive facilities, including advanced forms of fabrication and prototyping, the latest scanning and VR technology, and traditional crafts setups, you’ll also learn advanced forms of digital modelling and control, such as building information modelling (BIM). You’ll use these tools to develop your own individual approaches to the challenges of building construction and detail.

Along the way, you’ll be guided by our team of academics and a wide range of industry professionals. Opportunities  to collaborate with students across our architecture and design courses will give you an enriched experience in which specialised learning is combined with new perspectives and approaches that will broaden your horizons.

Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: K200

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 1)

Your journey to becoming a qualified architect begins here on our fully validated and accredited Architecture degree. Within a lively, progressive, and creative environment, you’ll be designing new buildings and considering the world around you from the outset.

On this course, we’ll challenge you to become highly skilled in technical drawing and design. You’ll also be encouraged to consider how architecture can have a wider impact on the world – from its immediate surroundings and social contexts, right through to the human body.

Architecture is an ever-evolving subject and, in the fast-paced construction industry, there will always be a need for professionals who can provide innovative solutions to new and as-yet undiscovered challenges.

You’ll benefit from dedicated studios, master a wealth of industry-grade technology and apparatus, and have the use of our cutting-edge Tracklab virtual reality studio, allowing you to begin your career in architecture with the theoretical and practical knowledge you need to thrive in this exciting field.

Course info

Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: K100

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers an Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA/BSc (Hons) Arts & Cultural Management

What does it take to run an arts facility, or organise a large cultural event? Find out what makes this area of the creative industries so unique and interesting on this course.

Taught at UCA Epsom within the Business School for the Creative Industries, you’ll learn the effective management of global arts and cultural events and organisations, deconstructing and critiquing the design, development, and management of world-class arts events and venues, and the policies that impact on them.

You’ll develop the creative, commercial, and practical skills needed to succeed in the fast-paced and engaging global arts and culture industry, where you could forge a career in museum and gallery management, arts marketing, venue management, events and festivals organisation, audience development, or publishing.

And while you learn, you’ll enjoy building a wealth of professional connections thanks to our extensive industry links – from the Tate Galleries, Royal Academy and Barbican, to the Science Museum, Wellcome Collection, BFI, and Southbank Centre.

Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: N820

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Art History

Whether you’re interested in pursuing a career in art history or the art industry, our Art History degree will equip you with the knowledge, skills, and connections to excel in your chosen path into the art world.

Taught alongside our Fine Art degree at UCA Canterbury, this course offers students the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of art history, art practices, and art contexts. You’ll have access to specialist lecturers with deep knowledge of art history, and join a wider community of emerging artists. You’ll develop your technical skills, take part in material workshops and guest lectures, and build a network of connections in the contemporary art community. Along the way, you’ll delve into the diverse genres, practices, and movements of art, while also examining the factors that shape artistic development and representation. And to prepare you for your future career, you’ll participate in live projects, engage with stakeholders in the culture and museum industries, and develop essential marketing and networking skills.

Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: W105

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BSc (Hons) Automotive & Transport Design*

Are you keen to drive the conversation and design transport solutions for the future? This course will help you do just that.

The automotive and transportation industry is undergoing huge change driven by the climate emergency, a social and cultural shift in attitudes to car ownership and use, as well as public transport. Throughout the course, you’ll be poised to lead design thinking and policy in this sector, enabling positive disruption and innovation.

To effectively create your concepts and develop your skills and design practice, you’ll have access to the amazing facilities at UCA Canterbury, including advanced forms of fabrication and testing, the latest 3D scanning and VR technology, and a suite of traditional craft-based workshops, photography studios, and print facilities.

You’ll work alongside students across our design courses, interact with industry through live project opportunities, and be supported by our academic team – all to ensure you’re ready for the workplace after graduation.

Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: WH10

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers an Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year.

See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA/BSc (Hons) Business & Management

Make an impact on global business organisations with the practical skills, industry experience, and entrepreneurial spirit you’ll gain on our Business & Management degree course. This course is designed to prepare you to be a world-leading creative professional, ready for a range of career opportunities in the creative business sector, and you’ll have the opportunity to specialise in one of five industry areas – Fashion, Games, Music, Cosmetics and Beauty, or Lifestyle. As well as the fundamentals of business and management, such as marketing, finance, e-commerce, and accounting, you’ll learn alongside your peers from the Business School for the Creative Industries on a range of business bootcamps and, in the second year, elective units that will broaden your horizons.

By the end of your degree, you’ll be able to enter any area of creative business with a suite of skills and knowledge, and importantly the confidence, to succeed – whether that’s within a major organisation or independently as you embark on your own entrepreneurial journey.

Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: N200

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Ceramics & Glass

Embracing the traditions of craftsmanship, our Ceramics & Glass course takes a forward-thinking approach to designing and making.

Learning through making is key and, using our incredible specialist facilities, you will be introduced to a range of processes common to both ceramics and glass, including mould-making, print, and other surface techniques. Specialist areas such as hand building, throwing, slip-casting, 3D ceramic printing, glass blowing, kiln-forming, and lamp working are also covered.

Overall, the course prepares you for professional life in the field, promoting a culture of creativity and innovation, with employability embedded from the start. Opportunities to take part in professional competitions, live projects, and placements will offer you insights into the world of work and the demands of the industry.

Where better to study your craft than on our Farnham campus? Awarded World Craft Town status in 2020, Farnham benefits from a long-established crafts heritage. The internationally renowned Crafts Study Centre is also located on this campus and hosts a rolling programme of high-profile exhibitions and talks for you to enjoy.

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W266

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Comic & Concept Art

Want to draw stories for graphic novels and comics, or create concept art for films or games? Our Comic & Concept Art degree will get you on the right track.

This degree is all about preparing you for the vital role that comic and concept artists play in animation, film, games, comics, and other media.

Focusing on the pre-production process and designing assets including characters, creatures, environments, key art illustrations, splash art, and props, you’ll explore all the core illustration practices that make the foundations of effective development as a comic artist.

With access to our digital media suites, printmaking studios and modern library with a wealth of resources, you’ll be able to use our industry-standard 2D and 3D art software including our suite of Wacom Cintiq graphics tablets, to explore creative briefs through traditional art methods. Your imagination and drawing skills will combine to visualise directors’ ideas on paper and screen, building your problem-solving skills as you create new and exciting designs.

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W223

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BMus (Hons) Composition for Screen

Turn your love of music into a career as you become a skilled, collaborative, and thoughtful composer on our Composition for Screen course at UCA Farnham.

This degree is focused on musical composition for the moving image, so you will encounter plenty of opportunities to work with students across film, animation, and games courses as you discover and develop your style.

You’ll gain technical expertise and understanding, as well as developing your knowledge of the theories, contexts, and philosophies relevant to this area of music, so you can become skilled in creating and notating your compositions.

You’ll learn with global audiences and cultures in mind and consider equality and diversity within the industry. You’ll also develop entrepreneurial skills and an adaptable approach that allows you to apply your knowledge and expertise in a variety of environments and career paths.

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W300

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BSc (Hons) Computer Science*

Prepare yourself for a varied and exciting career in computer technologies and software on our Computer Science degree. You’ll develop extensive knowledge, practice, and technical skills in a design-oriented, creative context. The curriculum emphasises designing and producing software outputs, supported by theoretical frameworks, problem-solving skills and group-working practices. Artificial intelligence and cyber security will be covered in depth, and you’ll be able to choose from a range of elective units to broaden your knowledge in specialist topics, such as microcontroller projects, sound and image processing, as well as motion capture and virtual production technologies.

To enhance your studies, you’ll have access to our studios, which are equipped with high-end PCs and Alienware Aurora towers, 4k dual-screen monitors and Wacom Cintiq graphics tablets, alongside all the latest software. We also have a VR development studio, as well as sound production and Foley studios, Pro Tools and a specialist library – so you’ll have everything you need to excel in this exciting and ever-changing area of industry.

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: G400

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BSc (Hons) Creative Computing*

The role of computing and computer software in creative settings is explored on this design-oriented course, on which you’ll investigate how technology can enhance the creative industries.

With access to our cutting-edge, industry-standard facilities at UCA Farnham, you’ll learn about programming, data types and databases, web design and development, and user interfaces, as well as exploring creative visual coding with applications in image and sound processing. You’ll make an in-depth study of artificial intelligence, exploring its applications in creative domains such as music and the visual arts. Implementing real industry briefs, you’ll develop a range of software by-products and explore different areas of animation.

Elective units also allow you to investigate topics such as digital storytelling, sound and image processing, and motion capture and virtual production technologies, ensuring you graduate with the theoretical frameworks and problem-solving skills needed to thrive in industry.

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W290

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Design for Theatre & Screen

Do you want to design and create environments, costumes and props for stage and screen, while learning from passionate, professional designers who know the industry inside out?

At UCA Farnham, you’ll put your design, making, and technical skills into practice as you take part in exciting work placements and collaborative projects, and hear from visiting lecturers with incredible experience – such as designers for Ant Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and the Royal Ballet.

You’ll also consider the world around you as you learn and make, ensuring you enter the industry fully versed in climate and carbon auditing and leadership. Meanwhile, you’ll connect with cutting-edge research projects in the UK and abroad.

This course has strong links with the likes of the Young Vic, Farnham Maltings, Garsington Opera and the English National Opera, where you’ll attend talks, tours, and performances. Plus, our longstanding relationship with the National Film and Television School often leads to work placements for large cohorts of students each year.

Course info

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W440

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Digital Art

At the forefront of innovative visual practice, pushing the boundaries of work with moving image and hybrid digital outputs, our degree in Digital Art is an art course with a difference.

Influenced by a range of global contemporary practices, this course provides the opportunity to build a broad range  of moving image and digital skills and to push the limits of technology to develop innovative ideas fit for industry. You’ll take part in thematic core units that include critically informed research-led lectures, a range of practical workshops, and introductory critical and creative tasks. Throughout, you’ll be encouraged to collaborate, socialise and share ideas within your learning community, and to develop your own independent creative practice.

The curriculum’s strong focus on employability will also help you think through your ambitions, interests, and next steps as we support you to identify potential career trajectories and prepare you for your individual professional journey.

Course info Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W690

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

(Hons) Digital Marketing & Social Media

Want to take your place in the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing and/or social media? This course will give you the skills to get there.

On this course, you’ll discover the fundamentals of the discipline, from media planning and buying to brand identity, marketing and communications, and the impact of social media on society, politics, and the economy – plus the practical elements of using social media as a business tool.

You’ll also have the chance to apply your skills in a specific area of interest within the creative industries – choose from cosmetics and beauty, fashion, games, lifestyle, or music. And in your second year, you’ll be able to pick from a range of exciting elective units to broaden your knowledge even further.

By the end of your degree, you’ll be an expert marketeer and a highly effective social media manager with the knowledge you need to use paid, owned, and earned media to meet business goals, plus a detailed understanding of how to target your core audiences and harness the power of influencers. You’ll be adaptable and quick-thinking, with a detailed grasp of the role that digital marketing and social media plays in differing global markets.

Course info Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: P304

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA/BSc (Hons) Digital Media & Magazine Publishing

Are you keen to get into the publishing business and learn how the magazine industry works across digital and print media? This dynamic course will give you the skills you’ll need to excel in the publishing landscape.

You’ll explore the inner workings of the magazine business – from media planning to production, editorial management, and photography – together with how the publishing industry works in different sectors and targets a range of audiences. You’ll develop and sharpen your skills in journalism and choose from a range of exciting elective units that will broaden your knowledge – including public relations, wearable technology, and influence & influencers.

You’ll be taught by an experienced team of journalists and editors from the worlds of music, fashion, and lifestyle media.

Throughout the course, you’ll also develop professional skills through individual and collaborative work in both studio and industry environments, including a work placement (or Professional Practice Year, if you choose that option) and work on live project briefs that help prepare you for an exciting career in the field.

Course info

Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: WP25

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA/BSc (Hons) Events & Festivals Management

Do you want to become the next Emily Eavis, organising world-class festivals? Or are your sights set on events management in the corporate sphere? Our Events & Festivals Management degree will help you get there. This degree is designed to immerse students in the organisation of events and festivals, and the audience experiences within these arenas.

Employability is a key focus: the course has been developed by event industry specialists – who also teach on it – and you’ll work directly with venues, artists, audiences, and other industry partners as you develop your skills.

Professional placements will form part of your core teaching, equipping you to be adaptable, resilient, globally minded, confident, entrepreneurial, and digitally savvy,  and to develop the transferable skills you need to excel in employment or set up your own ventures.

Course info Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: N821

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Fashion Atelier & Tailoring

Create beautiful bespoke, hand-crafted fashion and prepare for work at the highest level of the industry on this specialist degree in Fashion Atelier & Tailoring.

Our fashion courses have an international reputation for producing talented graduates, and as the only one of its kind, this unique course will give you the technical skills, individual fashion language, and confidence to create extraordinary work. You’ll learn specialist draping, creative pattern-cutting, machine, and hand-sewing techniques as part of your study of atelier principles and processes. As well as bespoke tailoring and the couture approach to ‘soft’ sewing, you’ll also embrace new technologies, including digital 3D fashion. Recent graduates have gone on to work at Craig Green, Victoria Beckham, Vivienne Westwood, Huntsman, Norton & Son’s, Burberry, and Roland Mouret, to name a few. And with guidance from our highly skilled staff and visiting practitioners, plus industry placements, professional portfolio development, and opportunities to showcase your work, you’ll have everything you need to pursue your own ambitions with confidence.

Course info Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: W237

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Fashion Branding & Communication

Fashion isn’t just about the catwalk – there’s a whole world of marketing, communication, and branding behind it. On this course, we’ll help you become an expert in the fashion arena. As well as teaching you the fundamentals of business, this course will develop your knowledge of the fashion industry to an expert level, with a particular focus on how brands communicate, operate, and innovate. You’ll use what you learn to develop methods for communicating your own creative ideas to consumers.

You’ll also get the chance to broaden your knowledge by applying these skills in a range of other specific areas of interest within the creative industries. And in your second year you’ll be able to pick from a host of exciting elective units to extend your knowledge. By the time you graduate, you’ll have gained the experience to build lasting relationships and positive reputations throughout the global fashion industry using communication, promotion, networking, and technology. And we’re confident you’ll follow in the footsteps of our many successful graduates, who have gone on to work  for the likes of ASOS, Celine, L’Oréal, Paul Smith, Farfetch, Burberry, and Chanel.

Course info Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: WN65

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA/BSc (Hons) Fashion Business & Management

Behind every fashion brand is a brilliant business plan and a team of experts to bring it to life. If you want to be a part of that and take your place among the major fashion players, this course will help you get there.

We’ll develop your business sense and planning skills so that you can thrive commercially. Whether it’s fashion buying, merchandising, forecasting, management strategy, PR and marketing, branding, or international business, you’ll graduate with the knowledge and confidence to succeed.

You’ll work collaboratively across the Business School for the Creative Industries to learn the fundamentals of business and management, before branching out to explore the specifics of the fashion industry.

Along the way, you’ll get the opportunity to broaden your horizons as you pick from a range of industry-related elective units, from supply chain management to behavioural studies. Whichever you choose, your learning will take a global outlook that allows you to forge a career in either domestic or international markets.

Course info

Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: N101

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Fashion Design

Our Fashion Design degree has an established and enviable reputation within the international arena for producing highly skilled and sought-after graduates who are able to work and inform fashion at the highest levels of the industry. You will build the advanced technical knowledge you’ll need to develop your creative identity and personal voice, in order to design and make the fashions you see in your future – leading to a final graduate collection and comprehensive professional portfolio.

Through our focused and inspiring curriculum, including ‘live’ industry briefs and collaborative projects, you’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of research, design, and visual communication skills reflecting current industry practice, as well as future industry needs. You’ll build a network of vital industry contacts, while also gaining insight into the global fashion industry, so you can find your place within it as you launch into an exciting career.

Along the way, you’ll be able to reflect on your own work in cultural and global contexts, undertake exciting elective units that broaden your horizons, go on an invaluable industry work placement that meets your career aspirations, and take part in a range of showcase events, such as Graduate Fashion Week.

Course info Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: W233

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Fashion Image & Styling

Create looks and concepts for every scenario – from editorial and campaigns to the High Street and magazines – and prepare to become a major player in the fashion industry on our hands-on and creative Fashion Image & Styling degree. Fashion stylists are at the front line of the fashion industry, working across fashion shoots and celebrity events, and even with social media influencers. This course will teach you to collaborate to create looks, explore ideas, and experiment in the studio and on location. You’ll learn how to tackle any brief, benefit from a wealth of industry expertise, and have access to our extensive fashion facilities.

In addition to core units, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with students across our other fashion and textiles courses, work with industry partners, and undertake a work placement.

Our graduates have gone on to work in events and creative direction at M&S and Gucci, styling at i-D Magazine and Net-a-Porter, and even present and host fashion events in London, New York, and Milan.

Course info Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: W239

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Fashion Photography

Become a creative and experimental artist within the fashion industry on our Fashion Photography degree.

You will explore established and expanded conventions within contemporary fashion photography and produce highly creative original work using industry-standard facilities.

Along the way, you’ll benefit from a wealth of industry expertise, work with fashion stylists and make-up artists, use our extensive fashion facilities, and develop in-depth practical and professional skills. You’ll also be able to undertake a work placement.

Staff who teach within the cluster include photographers and image makers, stylists, make-up artists, archivists, and experienced academics. They work across a range of outputs for clients including Vogue, ID, SHOWStudio, VICE, the BBC, the Guardian, and Wired.

Our students have gone on to work as photographers, retouchers, and studio assistants, and have worked with industry connections including Hermès, Indoi, and Men’s File magazine.

Course info Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: W645

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Film & Screen Studies

From Alfred Hitchcock to Pedro Almodóvar, silent movies to the modern era, on this course you’ll delve deep into the wonder of film and television.

This degree is aimed at those people who have a passion for film, but are more intrigued by its contexts, theories, and histories than the practicalities of how films are made.

You may wish to forge a career as a film critic or film historian, or to work in film distribution – whatever your ambitions, you’ll gain the expert critical and analytical skills to pursue your goals.

With access to our purpose-built film studios and dedicated technical support, you’ll take an in-depth look at the craft of filmmaking, using sociological approaches and close textual analysis to explore a diverse range of creators and cinematic movements from around the world.

Course info Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W604

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

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BA (Hons) Film Production

If working on movies and high-end TV is your dream, then this course will give you the visual skills and vital business knowledge to forge an exciting career in film production. Graduates have gone on to work on the Harry Potter and Mission Impossible franchises, as well as major TV shows like Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and Disney+ series, Loki.

Our course is predominantly practice-based – we believe in learning through doing. We are also geared to meet the ever-changing demands of the industry, and you’ll learn how to best use virtual reality, visual effects, and post-production technologies as you work.

From the outset, you’ll be part of a close-knit creative team, making films on industry-standard cameras. You’ll learn about the business of film, explore the production process from beginning to end, and develop crucial networking and communication skills.

You’ll also have the opportunity to have your work screened at national and international festivals and competitions, giving you the chance to make an impact early in your career.

Course info Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W600

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Fine Art (Canterbury)

Are you an artist who is passionate about building on your creative passions, gaining new skills, and fine-tuning your work, interests, and thinking? Then this course could be for you.

We want you to work with curiosity, develop ideas, explore themes, and consolidate your practice. With the support of our staff, you’ll experiment with a range of traditional and contemporary media including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, film, sound, performance, animation, and printmaking.

You’ll also develop a deep theoretical and critical understanding of Fine Art and learn business and self-promotion skills as you build a professional network that gives you a strong foundation on which to build your career. With full access to our large purpose-built studios and workshops, you’ll have the opportunity to experiment with working in wood, metals, plastics, and ceramics, as well as exploring plaster, rubber and glass casting, and trying out many more materials.

You’ll graduate as an artist with a wealth of transferable skills, distinguished by your creativity, adaptability, and hardworking, flexible attitude to work.

Course info Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: W100

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Fine Art (Farnham)

Become an accomplished and confident artist with a unique, individual style on our Fine Art degree at UCA Farnham.

This course reflects the dynamism and attitude of contemporary art, with a focus on experimentation, play, and intellectual enquiry, and you’ll produce a range of varied work as you uncover your artistic language.

You’ll build knowledge, skills, and experience through a series of thematic core units, which include critically informed, research-led lectures, a range of practical workshops, and introductory critical and creative tasks.

And because Fine Art sits within a programme alongside Photography and Digital Art degrees, you’ll have the opportunity to work across disciplines through elective units, as well as cross-course collaborations and learning opportunities. This will give you the chance to build your own learning programme around your research interests and develop transferable skills to take with you into the career of your choice.

Course info Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W101

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Games Animation

Everyone can dabble in digital art and animation with the help of their smartphone or tablet – but if you want to take your skills to the next level and turn your passion into a career, our Games Animation course is for you.

On this course you’ll learn the techniques used to make game characters come alive, and how you, as an animator, can create an exciting and compelling performance. You’ll learn the principles of creating appealing animation, and how these can be adapted to the world of video games, to build characters that respond dynamically to player input and most importantly feel great to play.

You’ll develop traditional artistic skills alongside digital ones, gaining an understanding of the latest software and techniques. You’ll also work in our state-of-the-art Vicon motion capture suite, learning the processes used on ‘AAA’ games to capture an actor’s performance, alongside our other cutting-edge facilities including our virtual production studio, Rokoko mocap suits, and extensive AR/VR facilities.

Graduates have gone on to work for major companies including Industrial Light & Magic, DNEG, Framestore, Glassworks and Blue Zoo – and so could you!

Course info Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W281

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Games Arts

Is your imagination all about creating whole new worlds and characters? This practice-based Games Arts degree could be for you.

This course, which is accredited by The Rookies, will equip you with the tools you need to become a skilled games artist and hone your ability to work with others to produce games collaboratively, in a way that replicates industry practice. You’ll develop your skills using world-class facilities, with high-end hardware and the latest software such as Autodesk Maya, Adobe Substance 3D, Quixel Suite, Zbrush, Marvelous Designer, Marmoset Toolbag, and games engines such as Unity and Unreal.

You’ll also benefit from opportunities to collaborate with students on our other games courses, and make the most of our exceptional industry links to brands like Rebellion, SEGA, Creative Assembly, and Supermassive Games. By the time you graduate, you’ll be ready to launch a career in the industry, either here in the UK, or abroad.

Course info

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W280

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Games Design

The games industry is the fastest growing entertainment sector of this century. Its global revenue is almost twice that of the film industry, with interactive digital experiences, from consoles and virtual reality (VR) to smart TVs and mobile phones, embedded in our everyday lives. On this course, we’ll give you the skills to thrive in this exciting area of the creative industries.

You’ll learn user-centred design across a multitude of media, from board and card games to pervasive mobile experiences and digital games. And you’ll learn production methodologies and work in teams to develop several portfolio pieces as the course progresses. You’ll develop prototypes, learn about the business of games development, and undertake trips to major industry events and expositions.

Throughout your time at UCA Farnham, you will be able to realise your full potential using our state-of-the-art facilities, with high-end PCs with Alienware Aurora towers, 4k dual-screen monitors and Wacom Cintiq graphics tablets, all dedicated to games design, with software including Unity and Unreal games engines. In addition, you’ll find sound production and Foley studios, Pro Tools software and a specialist library all on hand.

Course info Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: I620

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BSc (Hons) Games Development

Founded on the principles of user-centred design and human-computer interaction, this technical degree is all about considering the user through each stage of the game design and development process.

As you explore game design and development, you’ll have access to the very latest hardware and software

– including Alienware Aurora towers, 4k dual screens, high-end graphics cards, and SSD HDs, with Unity and Unreal games engines for prototyping. You’ll be able to test your games on the very latest Dev Kits, including those from Nintendo Switch. This course sits alongside the established and highly regarded Games Arts degree, and you’ll have plenty of opportunities to collaborate with students on that programme as you make game prototypes together. You’ll also get to take part in game jams with your peers across our games degrees, mirroring industry approaches to idea iteration and team development.

When it comes to industry links, you’ll benefit from our connections with games brands including Rebellion, SEGA, Creative Assembly, and SuperMassive Games, and graduate with all the tools you need for a successful career.

Course info Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: G450

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Graphic Design

Our well-established Graphic Design course provides you with the essential and emerging skills and specialisms you need to excel in design in a wide range of formats – from branding to typography, editorial, UI/UX design, and motion media. You’ll take part in challenging live projects, competitions, and extra-curricular industry placements, so that by the time you graduate you’ll have a wealth of knowledge and experience to take forward into your career. Past projects have included working with advertising agency Ogilvy, the NHS, and the New Statesman, as well as for ITV Daytime.

You’ll be part of a fantastic creative family, where lifelong friendships and professional connections are formed, and alumni return to class year on year to pass on their knowledge to a new generation of designers.

By the time you graduate, you’ll be a confident designer, able to apply your skills to a wealth of careers. Check out our @gdfarnham.uca Instagram account to see some of our day-to-day activities and students’ work-in-progress.

Course info

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W217

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Illustration

Explore traditional and contemporary ways of working and challenge the parameters of illustration as you develop your own voice on our Illustration degree.

Taught at UCA Farnham, our degree has an illustrious legacy with alumni including illustrator Paul Blow, interior designer Petronella Hall, and TV legend Tony Hart.

You’ll enjoy an individualised, outward-looking programme of study as you work on live briefs with local, national, and international reach, and take part in competitions such as the Puffin and Penguin prizes, the V&A Student Illustration Awards, and World Illustration Awards.

Illustration at UCA is based on the key facets of research, experimentation, criticality, and placing work within a variety of social and industry contexts, and you’ll be taught by a team of tutors who are award-winning illustrators.

Course info Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W220

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BSc (Hons) Industrial Design

Get technical as you design and create products to improve and enhance our lives on this cutting-edge course at UCA Canterbury.

With access to our extensive workshop facilities – including our purpose-built FabLab with 3D digital design software, laser cutting, and CNC technology, as well as virtual reality and spatial tracking technology – you’ll have plenty of exciting opportunities to make sophisticated prototypes of your work.

You’ll explore the manufacturing process from beginning to end, and challenge the definition of modern industrial design. The transferable skills that you’ll gain on this course will include developing prototypes, presenting concepts to investors, and developing a scientific understanding of materials and their interactions. With our industry connections, you’ll have the opportunity to work on exciting live projects and briefs. You’ll graduate with a wealth of skills, knowledge, and experience so that you can apply to work on anything from cars to furniture, toys to electronic devices, or in fabrication, 3D printing, and more.

Course info Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: W245

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture

Interior architecture and interior design are two closely linked disciplines with significant overlap in terms of skills and design processes. On this course, you’ll focus on the interface between the existing and proposed elements of a design, and between the construction detailing, technical services, and interior spatial experience.

You’ll learn through progressive briefs that engage with real-world challenges, through research, and through design as your primary means of inquiry.

With access to our cutting-edge facilities, including 3D workshops and fully equipped computer studios, you’ll be given the freedom and confidence to speculate and become aware of your social responsibility as a designer of the built environment.

You’ll also benefit from interaction with industry through live project opportunities and masterclasses, which will help you build the industry-relevant skills you’ll need in the workplace. By the end of the course, you’ll be a socially responsible, confident, innovative, and entrepreneurial graduate who has the knowledge, skills, and abilities to play an active role in practice or in postgraduate study.

Course info Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: W255

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Interior Decoration & Styling

Do you want to become a confident interior decoration and styling professional with specialist knowledge of contemporary design visualisation skills?

On this course, you’ll have the freedom to establish your own unique specialisms, such as materials specification and performance, or brand-led style composition and photography. And you will develop your own highly individualised design identity and style, which you’ll be able to showcase as you explore real briefs and contexts.

To refine your theoretical knowledge and practical skills, you’ll have access to advanced forms of fabrication and testing, the latest scanning and VR technology, and a suite of traditional craft-based workshops, photography studios, and print facilities, all of which will allow you to bring your design proposals to life.

With support from our team of expert academics and industry professionals, and through collaborative opportunities with students on other courses such as Product and Furniture Design and Interior Architecture, you’ll graduate with the skills, knowledge, and confidence you need for success.

Course info

Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: W253

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Interior Design

Looking at real-world challenges to transform interior spaces – both old and new – bridges the gaps between architecture, fine art, and spatial practice.

On this course, you’ll work alongside students across our architecture and design portfolio to create a range of plans for various settings, while constantly questioning and considering the role of the designer in contemporary society. Through experimentation, play, and research, you’ll engage with design briefs as agents of social, cultural, political, and economic change. You’ll also use laser cutters, 3D printers, a virtual reality lab, a 3D workshop, and fully equipped computer studios to enhance your work.

As a result of this vigorous blend of practical and research-led study, you’ll become a confident and innovative interior designer with a focus on social responsibility, materiality, specification, and careful control of the holistic human experience in interior spaces.

As part of the course, you’ll benefit from interaction with industry through live project opportunities and masterclasses, building industry-relevant skills to ensure that you graduate ready for the workplace.

Course info

Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: W257

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Jewellery & Silversmithing

Our Jewellery & Silversmithing degree promotes a broad and versatile discipline outlook, combining a forward-thinking approach to designing and making in metals, while also giving you opportunities to work with a wide range of other materials, including ceramics, wood, and glass.

This course, perfectly located in the World Craft Town of Farnham, is all about learning through making, as you gain the knowledge and courage to take risks and to redefine approaches to the subject.

Working in a stimulating creative environment where innovation and excellence are the ambition, you’ll develop your own interests and distinctive creative direction within a supportive academic framework. You’ll also get prepared for life in the field, with opportunities to take part in professional competitions, live projects, and placements to offer you insight into the world of work and the demands of the industry.

You’ll have access to a range of specialist facilities and benefit from our industry links, including Tatty Devine and the British Art Medal Society. And, who knows, maybe you’ll follow in the footsteps of some of our best-known graduates, like Stephen Webster MBE, Kyosun Jung, Miriam Hanid, and Jacqueline Ryan.

Course info

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W271

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Journalism & Communications*

Storytelling takes many forms, and on this course, you’ll learn how to tell a whole world of stories in compelling and engaging ways.

Whether you’re aiming to become a journalist or work in a related area of the wider communications industry, such as public relations, marketing, or corporate or internal communications, you’ll gain the skills to make your mark.

From the get-go, you’ll be encouraged to find exciting people with interesting stories and to tell them in your own unique way. You’ll be taught to produce journalism for different platforms – from apps, websites, and magazines to television, radio, podcasts, and social media – and to find your own distinctive specialism such as culture, the environment, music, fashion, sport, politics, or equality and human rights.

With access to industry-level facilities that include a broadcast newsroom, radio studios, and dedicated computer suites, you’ll gain a wealth of practical, creative experience  as you develop strong technical skills alongside extensive academic and theoretical knowledge of journalism, public relations, and the global communications industry.

Course info Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: P500

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture & Design*

Develop the advanced skills required to become a professional landscape architect with specialist knowledge of ecological and environmental design.

On this course, you’ll be exposed to a wide range of spatial practices and come to understand the value a landscape architect can add to projects, the wider community, and society.

You’ll have access to advanced forms of fabrication and testing, the latest scanning and VR technology, and a suite of traditional craft-based workshops to enable you to bring your design proposals to life.

You’ll also have the freedom to establish your own unique specialisms, such as practical plant-based knowledge, while developing your own highly individual design identity and style.

Supported by a wide range of industry professionals, you’ll have opportunities to collaborate with peers in other design specialisms such as architecture and urban design. Along the way, you’ll explore real briefs and contexts, and show your work to established practitioners.

Course info Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: K300

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Make-up & Hair Design

Want to create a beauty masterpiece, or venture into experimental make-up or hair for editorial, campaign, and catwalk shows? This degree will give you the freedom and skills to achieve your ambitions. Throughout your studies, you’ll explore a range of technical approaches, product features, and published outputs. You’ll be able to create, refine, and present your work within our extensive facilities – and you’ll develop your in-depth industry knowledge, practical skills, and individual signature style so that, by the time you graduate, you’ll have a rich portfolio of work to set you up in your career.

In addition to studying the core units, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with students across our fashion and textiles courses, work with industry partners, fashion stylists and fashion photographers, and undertake a work placement.

Course info Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: W452

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Modelmaking

Being an exceptional model maker is all about taking people on a narrative journey, be it for VFX and prop design, or architectural and product industries. On this course, you’ll develop the skills and specialist knowledge to do just that. You’ll become a confident and unique modelmaking professional, distilling your creative imagination into sophisticated models and building specialist knowledge of sustainable and contemporary design. You’ll have full access to a range of design practices, all of which have storytelling at their core.

With opportunities to collaborate with your peers in other design specialisms such as Product and Furniture Design and Interior Architecture, you’ll have the freedom to experiment and establish your own unique style and specialisms, such as advanced materials, or mechanised articulation. You’ll have access to advanced forms of fabrication and testing, the latest 3D scanning and VR technology, and a suite of traditional craft-based workshops, photography studios, and print facilities to help you to bring your design ideas to life.

Course info Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: W630

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Music & Sound Production

Learn the skills to create, record, and experiment with music and sound in a variety of contexts on our Music & Sound Production degree course.

You’ll enhance your technical knowledge and creativity in live and studio settings as you work with artists and composers from other courses, and gain the confidence to pursue a fulfilling career in the music industry with a broad skillset that can be applied to a range of roles.

During the degree, you will undertake hands-on learning in extensive specialist facilities equipped with industry-standard equipment and software.

In your core modules, you’ll focus on primary areas such as recording studio practice and performance, music production and recording software, synthesizers, and sound design techniques. As well as developing your technical expertise, you’ll broaden your general knowledge of the industry, helping you to identify your place within it.

You’ll also benefit from many collaborative opportunities in your second-year elective units, where you can build your knowledge of the demands and processes of different media as you work with film, games, animation, and acting students.

Course info

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W302

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA/BSc (Hons) Music Business & Management

If you have the drive to work in the creative, innovative, and fast-moving music industry, then this course is for you. As well as providing you with an overview of the industry, this course will give you the chance to explore your own areas of interest and develop the skills you need to thrive in this increasingly global sector.

Whether you picture yourself working in record company management, music marketing, talent scouting and development, artist management, or live music, this course will give you everything you need to achieve your goals, including expertise in merchandising, e-commerce, social media marketing, branding, management, and promotion.

You’ll benefit from our excellent facilities and impressive array of industry contacts, ensuring that you graduate with the knowledge, skills, and professional network you need to make your mark in the music industry, whether in the UK or beyond.

Course info Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: W376

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Photo & Digital Journalism*

The role of the photojournalist is more crucial than ever in today’s world, where news is shared instantly through social media.

On this course, you’ll learn how important it is to capture a moment in time in the right way, how to get to the heart of an issue through your pictures, and how to bring those images to audiences around the world.

Working with digital tools, you’ll learn how to create quizzes, photo galleries, maps, charts, graphs, timelines, podcasts, and social media posts. This is a hands-on course and you’ll always be encouraged to find exciting people with interesting stories and to tell them in your own unique way.

With so many voices competing for attention in our society, we’ll help you develop a distinctive, ambitious way of communicating that will make audiences sit up and take notice of what you have to say.

Course info Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: P502

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Photography

Do you want to take your joy of photography forward into a lifelong practice and career with impact and meaning?

If so, our Photography degree at UCA Farnham will help you push your photographic boundaries, produce fantastic work, and lay the foundations for a range of careers.

You’ll have access to a wide range of digital and analogue facilities and, because Photography sits alongside Fine Art and Digital Art as an interdisciplinary group of courses, you’ll have the chance to take part in cross-course elective units and collaborative opportunities that help you elevate and tailor your learning experience around your research interests.

Our renowned teaching team bring with them impressive research profiles and industry connections, both nationally and internationally. Our recent graduates have won the EIZO Student Award, given presentations at Photo London, and been featured in the graduate issue of Photoworks. You too could go on to become a successful photographer or work in the photographic industries in a variety of fields, including editorial, advertising, fine art, documentary-making, and gallery or project management.

Course info

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W640

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Printed Fashion Textiles

This course will give you the freedom to explore printed textiles through a wide range of design-led projects – from creating a catwalk collection to fashion-led interiors and textile art.

If you want to learn how to design, pattern cut, drape on the stand, and make exciting garment collections, but can’t live without colour, pattern, and print, then this is the course for you.

You will have access to industry standard printing, sewing, and digital printing equipment and you can explore hand-crafted textiles techniques and cutting-edge digital technology in the design and production of innovative ideas and finished products.

You’ll have the chance to do an internship and also work on live industry projects with big brand names, including Alexander McQueen and Peter Pilotto, as well as exhibiting your work at shows.

Our award-winning students and graduates go on to secure positions at many leading fashion and textile brands, working in many key sectors of the industry including: textile design for clothes and accessories, CAD design for printed textiles, interior and exterior print applications, design forecasting, fabrics, and print products.

Course info Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: W231

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Product & Furniture Design

If you’re passionate about turning the everyday into the extraordinary, then this is the perfect course for you. You’ll explore the fundamentals of thinking, analysing, drawing, making, and testing through a mix of digital and analogue methods. Along the way, you’ll discover the importance of the relationship between products, furniture items and the spaces they occupy, working alongside students on our other architecture and design courses. Throughout the course, you’ll have access to our extensive facilities, and work on live project opportunities to get you ready for the workplace.

By the time you graduate, you’ll be an intelligent problem solver with a curious outlook and a bold approach to exploring how product and furniture design can serve society, both today and in the future.

Course info Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: W243

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Television Production

Taught in a dedicated learning environment at the renowned Maidstone Television Studios, you’ll learn all you need to know to work in the television industry on this varied and exciting degree.

Exploring a raft of television formats from scripted drama to live production, you’ll strike a balance between hands-on practical learning and technical study – including concept development and contextual awareness – ensuring you graduate with a diverse skillset.

You’ll have access to cutting-edge industry facilities within the studios and be prepared for a broad range of professional opportunities. Recent students have undertaken work-experience placements on Alan Partridge and I Can See Your Voice for the BBC, Catchphrase and Game of Talents for ITV, and a FIFA eSports World Championship.

Our ScreenSkills Select accreditation provides a host of benefits such as exclusive industry engagement opportunities, while our BAFTA Albert Education Partnership enables you to undertake sustainability training and achieve certification as an ‘Albert Grad’.

Recent graduates have gone on to work at Maidstone Studios, and for the likes of Warner Bros, ITV, BBC, Channel 4, Ignition Creative, Disney, and Formula 1.

Course info Campus: Maidstone

UCAS Code: P311

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Textiles

As consumer appetite for sustainably made products continues to rise, our forward-thinking Textiles degree is a great choice for you. This is one of the few courses to teach a combination of specialist textile subjects such as natural eco dyes and printing, bio-material making and sustainable surfaces, and 3D-constructed, off-loom techniques.

You’ll learn about colour, materials, and sustainable innovation, and how to design smartly, to make mindfully and with regenerative purpose. We’ll introduce you to industry fabricators, sourcing from sustainable suppliers, repurposing deadstock, circular production, bespoke hand craft, and new digital technologies.

You’ll learn how to visualise and communicate your textile ideas for fashion, interiors, art, and architecture. Creative identity, equality, diversity and inclusivity, conscious practice, industry, and the business of textiles and fashion are introduced through lectures, seminars, and collaborative project work.

Our graduates leave UCA with the sustainable skills needed to jump straight into exciting careers.

Course info Campus: Epsom

UCAS Code: W234

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BSc (Hons) Urban Design & Planning*

Discover the role and social impact of the urban planner and designer, and learn the advanced skills to become one, on this exciting course.

As you progress through your degree, you’ll learn spatial practices and discover the value an urban designer can add to projects and the wider community. You’ll use Canterbury and the wider Kent landscape as a canvas from which to work – researching, designing, and examining the impact that your designs and plans would have upon it.

On campus, you’ll be able to take advantage of our extensive facilities, including forms of fabrication and testing, the latest scanning and VR technology, and a suite of traditional craft-based workshops, all of which will allow you to bring your design proposals to life.

To broaden your horizons, you’ll be guided by our team of academics and experience collaborative opportunities with students across the university. You’ll also have the freedom to establish your own unique specialisms, such as advanced retrofit-based knowledge, while developing your own highly individualised design identity and style.

Course info Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: K400

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BSc (Hons) User Experience Design*

User experience blends multidisciplinary skills and research methodologies to help design interactions between humans and objects.

Studying alongside Graphic Design students, you will develop your skills in user experience design in a variety of ways. Depending on your interests you might focus on website creation, digital products and services, augmented and/or virtual reality, or app design.

You’ll develop your academic and theoretical knowledge of the global value and potential of user experience design through learning the fundamental principles and cornerstones of the industry, including user research, experience design, interaction design, visual design, and information architecture. With access to our dedicated studios, which offer spaces for group tutorials and personal working, as well as on-campus digital media suites with Macs and PCs running the latest specialist programmes, you’ll have everything you need to develop a broad skillset.

You’ll design services and products both individually and in teams, build an industry-ready portfolio, and prepare for a career in an area of rapidly growing opportunity and scope.

Course info

Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: I140

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Virtual & Augmented Reality

Take your technological know-how to the next level and gain the skills to join one of the fastest-growing business sectors on this exciting, hands-on course.

You’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of immersive technologies, before honing your skills on projects that build your experience of the processes and workflows you’ll find in the workplace after graduation.

You’ll have access to high-end PCs with Alienware Aurora towers and the latest graphics cards, 4k dual-screen monitors and Wacom Cintiq graphics tablets, with software including Unity and Unreal games engines.

There is also a dedicated VR Development Studio, our new motion-capture facilities and Virtual Production Studio, and a Games Incubator Studio for graduate entrepreneurs looking to set up their own companies or release games to market.

In addition, our Farnham campus offers sound production and Foley studios, Pro Tools software and a specialist library – so you’ll have everything you need to develop your skills and bring your ideas to life.

Course info Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: I700

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Visual Communication

If creating images and telling stories is your thing, then this course blends the very best of graphic design, illustration, animation, moving image, and photography skills into one – and gives you a broad base of skills from which to build an amazing career.

Visual communication is commercial, social, public, and political, shaping the meaning and impact of apps, websites, posters, books, magazine advertisements, games, logos, film titles, and countless other media.

With dedicated studios for personal and group working, digital media suites with Macs running industry-standard design software, and photography studios for processing and printing, you’ll have access to everything you need to develop the key knowledge and skills of a professional visual communication practitioner. You’ll investigate and explore the potential of a range of specific themes and approaches to contemporary practices and craft skills. You’ll also interact with industry through live project opportunities, building industry-relevant skills to ensure you graduate ready for the workplace.

Course info

Campus: Canterbury

UCAS Code: W215

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

BA (Hons) Visual Effects

Begin your journey to becoming a highly skilled visual effects artist and innovator for VFX in live action shots in films, TV programmes, and commercials, on our exciting new course.

On this course, you’ll gain an in-depth working knowledge of a range of computer graphics techniques and methodologies used in the production of high-end films and visual effects production pipelines.

You’ll develop an individual style to take with you as you build your technical skills, learn about client briefs and requirements as you discover your role as an emerging VFX professional, and undertake trips to major international centres of visual effects in order to prepare for your career in the industry.

We’ll teach you how to effectively use the software tools that drive the production of film, television, games, and creative technology experiences in industry, while also developing a language for criticality and creative expression.

Course info Campus: Farnham

UCAS Code: W614

Duration: Three years, full time

This course also offers Professional Practice Year, Integrated Foundation Year and Integrated International Foundation Year. See uca.ac.uk for more details

Information

Entry requirements

When looking at whether to offer you a place on one of our courses, we’ll consider your academic credentials alongside the creative talent shown in your portfolio. You can learn more on page 194 about how to put a portfolio together. Sometimes, we make offers with lower entry requirements to students who have faced difficulties that have affected their performance, and who were expected to achieve higher results. In these cases, a strong portfolio is particularly important evidence.

Here’s a breakdown of the usual academic requirements for each of our courses:

Integrated Foundation Year of a BA/BMus/BSc degree

› A Level results adding up to 64 UCAS tariff points

› Or a Diploma in Art & Design – Foundation Studies (Level 3 or 4) with a Pass

› Or a BTEC Extended Diploma/BTEC

National Extended Diploma with Merit/ Pass/Pass

› Or a UAL Extended Diploma with a Pass

› Or a combination of accepted Level 3 qualifications adding up to 64 UCAS tariff points

› Or T Level Pass in a related subject

› Or an IB (International Baccalaureate) with a score of 24 or above.

And

› Four GCSE passes at grade 9 to 4 and/ or A* to C, including English (or Functional Skills English Level 2).

BA/BMus/BSc degree

› A Level results adding up to 112 UCAS tariff points

› Or a Diploma in Art & Design – Foundation Studies (Level 3 or 4) with a Pass

› Or a BTEC Extended Diploma/BTEC National Extended Diploma with Distinction/Merit/Merit

› Or a UAL Extended Diploma with a Merit

› Or 1 12 UCAS points from an Access to Higher Education Diploma in an appropriate subject

› Or a combination of accepted Level 3 qualifications adding up to 112 UCAS tariff points

› Or T Level Merit in a related subject

› Or an IB (International Baccalaureate) with a score of 27–30 (at least 15 IB points at Higher Level).

And

› Four GCSE passes at grade 9 to 4 and/ or A* to C, including English (or Functional Skills English Level 2).

Some of our courses have additional subject-specific requirements as follows:

BA (Hons) Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 1)

› A Level results adding up to a minimum of 128 UCAS tariff points

› Or 128 UCAS points from an Access to Higher Education Diploma in an appropriate subject

› Or a Diploma in Art & Design – Foundation Studies (Level 3 or 4) with a Merit

› Or a BTEC Extended Diploma/BTEC National Extended Diploma with Distinction/Distinction/Merit.

› Or a UAL Extended Diploma with a Merit

› Or a combination of accepted Level 3 qualifications adding up to 128 UCAS points

› Or T Level Merit in a related subject

› Or an IB (International Baccalaureate) with a score of 29–32 (at least 16 IB points at Higher Level).

And

› Five GCSE passes at grade 9 to 4 and/or A* to C, including maths and English (or Functional Skills English Level 2).

BMus (Hons) Composition for Screen

Applicants will need an A Level in music or music technology, or Grade 5 Theory (ABRSM, LCMM, Trinity College, Rockschool or others recognised by Ofqual).

BSc (Hons) Games Development

Applicants will need five GCSE passes at grade 9 to 4 and/or A* to C, including English language, maths (grade 9–6/A*– B) and science or physics (grade 9–6/A*– B).

International students

International students can view typical entry requirements by country on our website. If your first language is not English, you will be required to provide evidence of your English language ability – usually a total score of 6.0 on the IELTS for UKVI Academic or IELTS Academic tests, with no less than 5.5 in any component. More information on our English language entry requirements and other evidence we can accept is available at uca.ac.uk

Other qualifications

We can consider other relevant and equivalent UK/EU/international qualifications on an individual basis.

Mature students

If you’re returning to study as a mature student, your entry requirements may differ from the above, so email us at admissions@uca.ac.uk and we’ll guide you through the process and what you need to do to secure a place.

At UCA, we know you’re about more than just grades. To us, exams are only part of the picture – your creativity and what you can do are just as important. Which is why, when you apply to most of our courses, we ask to see a portfolio.   We’ll ask you to bring these to your Applicant Day (or submit your portfolio digitally if you’re outside the UK). Your Applicant Day is a fun and informal experience and an opportunity for you to meet us, and for us to learn more about you as a person.

If it’s not practical to bring physical work along to your Applicant Day, then you can always photograph it and put it on a memory stick. When providing work digitally, remember to include a password if the work is protected. We want to see what inspires you, what you create, and what makes you unique. And if your course doesn’t ask for a portfolio but you still want to show us your work, we’d love to see it anyway.

For most courses, we’ll ask for 12 to 20 examples of your recent work that show off your experience, interests, aspirations, and passion for your subject.

–Zhentong Shi & Jiawei Zheng & Gavin Wang

We really hope you’ve got all the information you need and are feeling excited about starting the next stage of your journey with us at UCA.

If you’d like to apply to become a student here, there are a few things you need to do. So, we’ve put together this checklist of tasks for you to tick off as you go.

1 Apply

If you’re applying through your school/ college, please check their deadline, and follow this to get your application in on time

For full-time undergraduate courses, fill out an application form via ucas.com. We guarantee to consider your application if you apply by the UCAS equal consideration deadline (31 January 2024)

2 Your application

Once you’ve submitted your application, you’ll receive an email from us with your username and password for the UCA Applicant Portal.

How to apply

3 Create a portfolio

Depending on your course, you may need to create a portfolio of your work. Here are some tips (see page 194 for more):

Include 12–20 pieces of work, neatly presented

Lead with your show-stopping pieces

Show us how you think – document your ideas in a sketchbook

Present examples of your research that show idea development

Let your personality shine through and tell us what or who inspires you.

4 Come to your Applicant Day

This may include a portfolio review, audition and/or a meeting with your course team. You’ll also learn more about your course and campus and get to meet current students.

5 Read your offer email carefully

If your application is successful, you’ll receive an offer email from us that explains the full terms and conditions of your offer. You can also find details of your offer in your UCA Applicant Portal.

6 Accept your offer

For UCAS applications, accept by logging into UCAS Hub.  Or

For direct applications, accept using the task in your Applicant Portal.

International students

Pay your tuition fee deposit

Receive your CAS number

Use your CAS number to apply for a visa.

7 Apply for accommodation

As soon as you can apply for accommodation, we’ll contact you to let you know. This is usually in March for courses starting in September.

8 Apply for a student loan

To apply, visit: gov.uk/student-finance

9 Confirm your accommodation

For halls or local accommodation, make sure you’ve:

Made your advance payment

Confirmed your moving in date.

10 Take your place at UCA

Settle into your accommodation

Enrol on your course

Meet your new friends!

Enjoy your creative journey!

200 Funding your studies

Going to university is a big investment in your future, and one of the biggest tasks is sorting out your funding and paying your fees. We’re here to help you through the process.

Tuition fees: what to expect

Your main outlay will be your tuition fees. For almost all UK undergraduate students, the Student Loans Company (SLC) will lend you the money for your fees, so you don’t have to pay upfront. There are two types of loans:

› Tuition fee loans are not means-tested, and all UK students can apply to cover the full cost of tuition

› Maintenance loans are designed to help you with living costs, like accommodation, food, supplies, and travel. These are means-tested, with the amount you borrow based on where you live and your household income.

You’ll only start to repay your loan to the SLC when you start earning more than £27,295 (or £25,375 in Scotland) a year. This works similarly to how you pay tax – repayments  are taken out of your earnings before you receive your net pay, and the more you earn, the more you repay. The website gov.uk/student-finance will give you an idea of how much you could borrow and what your future repayments might look like.

What will it cost?

Although 2024 figures hadn’t been released at the time we went to print, the 2023–2024 (undergraduate degree) figures in the table below will give you a rough idea of what to expect. For the latest information about our fees, visit uca.ac.uk/fees.

Additional costs

There will be other expenses to consider on top of your tuition fees, such as the cost of mandatory trips and exhibitions, and materials. We’ll tell you as much as we can about these when we offer you a place. When you’re planning your finances, remember to consider other outlays, such as accommodation, groceries and food, utility bills, equipment, and art materials.

Scholarships

UCA offers scholarships and fee discounts for a range of learners and subject areas – you can find out more on our website: uca.ac.uk/scholarships.

Open Days

Coming to an Open Day is a great way to find out more about UCA, the courses we offer, and whether this is the right place for you.  When you visit us on campus, you’ll get a feel for life in our creative community and a taste of how our courses can help you turn your passions into an exciting and impactful career.

Plan your Open Day

If you decide to come to an Open Day, you’ll need to book a place through our website. It’s easy and free to do, and you’ll also be able to register for any talks you’d like to go along to – from course-specific presentations to more general ones about life at UCA, putting a portfolio together and funding your studies.

There will also be campus and accommodation tours, and the opportunity to meet lecturers and chat to our student ambassadors about what life here is really like.

More information

To browse Open Day dates and book your place, visit uca.ac.uk/opendays

Chat to a student: uca.ac.uk/chat

Explore our online talks: uca.ac.uk/live

Your big moment

Are you ready to join the ranks of our amazing UCA graduates?

There is no better feeling than being able to celebrate your achievements among your friends, family and peers, and every year we get to do just that by holding our graduation ceremonies in the heart of London. Here are some of our favourite pictures from our most recent graduation celebrations:

Get social with us

Our creative communities aren’t confined to our campuses – they’re online too. UCA’s social channels are a great place to celebrate creativity in all its forms, and to have fun with it!

See current students’ work, hear about our graduates’ successes, and find out more about life at UCA – this is the place to explore our world. Come find inspiration with us.

Instagram Tiktok

208 Additional information

The prospectus has been a collaborative project between the University for the Creative Arts and the following companies and individuals:

Creative Direction: Louise Richardson

Design: Spin Communications Ltd spin.co.uk

Print: Belmont Press Ltd belmont.co.uk

Front cover and spread imagery: Mads Perch

Campus photography: Iain Crockart, Michael Bowles, Chris Russell, James Newton, Chris Tuck

Student work: Students of UCA, credited where appropriate

UCA Canterbury

New Dover Road

Canterbury

Kent

CT1 3AN

+44 (0) 1227 817302

UCA Epsom

Ashley Road

Epsom

Surrey

KT18 5BE

+44 (0) 1372 728811

UCA Farnham

Falkner Road

Farnham

Surrey

GU9 7DS

+44 (0) 1252 722441

Maidstone Television Studios

Vinters Business Park

New Cut Road

Maidstone

Kent

ME14 5NZ

+44 (0) 1622 620151

All information is correct at the time of print. For the latest updates, please visit uca.ac.uk.

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If you're looking to find out more about student life at UCA, our unibuddy scheme gives you the chance to chat with people who are studying here right now. To chat with a student in your subject area, visit: uca.ac.uk/chat