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Collaborate with industry partners on an Acting degree that focuses on production and practical learning.
Location: Farnham
Train with professionals, perform on stage and screen, and launch your career with our rigorous, practice-based Acting masters degree.
Explore all forms of Animation using our incredible facilities and develop your individual style.
Be a part of UCA’s rich animation legacy and join its illustrious ranks on our MA Animation degree.
At UCA, architecture has its origins in an art school, so you will take a very hands-on approach, with lots of practical learning.
Location: Canterbury
An Architecture degree that explores how we live, our environments, and how we imagine the future through a creative and cultural lens.
This degree is far more than the art of tattooing, you’ll be exploring the myriad of ways that body art is practiced and the historical backgrounds of body art around the world.
Equivalent to the final year of a degree, this course enables you to build upon an existing qualification.
Location: Epsom
Learn the fundamentals of business and management and the tools you’ll need to succeed in your area of interest.
Location: All campuses
Establish your own craft identity and explore the contextual background to your work.
Hone your ceramics skills, gain expert insight and build valuable industry connections as you study in the heart of Farnham, a World Craft Town.
Learn from practising children’s book illustrators on an industry-focused degree designed for illustrators that want to engage with young readers through traditional and experimental forms of storytelling.
Create worlds and characters for games and comics while gaining the skills to bring your characters and worlds to life.
Build on the skills you’ve already gained in your previous studies within a creative context.
Based within a highly creative community, you’ll work with creators across different disciplines for a fresh perspective.
A practical degree in which you'll develop creative IPs, advance your concept art skills, and build the confidence to promote your ideas.
Work with industry professionals across brand, image-making and communication roles to gain practical insight and develop your own distinctive approach to creative direction.
Gain tools to develop your confidence as an educational professional within creative contexts and settings.
Location: Online
Build on your existing business and management knowledge of the fast-moving fashion industry.
From sets to props and costume, build new worlds for stage and screen.
Address all aspects of product design and brand management on a degree that gives you the ability to develop one-of-a-kind products and fresh campaign strategies.
Explore digital culture and creating art in response to it with impressive facilities and technology for you to experiment with.
Lead the next wave of fashion innovation and challenge the boundaries between physical and virtual style.
Get all the tools you need to thrive in the fast-paced marketing industry, available at all our campuses so you can study in a location of your choice.
You'll develop the highest levels of skills with practical and hands-on learning, you'll be making garments from week one.
Learn the fundamentals of the business of fashion, how brands communicate, operate and innovate, and use your knowledge to develop your own ideas and methods.
Designed for those who are passionate about both the creative and commercial aspects of the fashion industry.
A business management course designed for aspiring professionals seeking opportunities in the global fashion business sector.
Turn ideas into reality, express yourself through fashion, and get invaluable access to the industry.
Develop your brand identity, a full collection and a commercial business strategy for the home and international market on our MA Fashion Design course.
Create looks, explore ideas, and experiment in the studio and on location to produce ideas for editorial, magazines, campaigns, TV, event and film.
An experimental photography degree that helps you develop a distinctive visual style and position yourself as part of the next generation of fashion photographers.
Our course is practice-based and geared to meet the ever-changing demands of industry.
Refine your storytelling, use our cutting-edge facilities to enhance your technical skills, and carve out your place in the film industry.
With a high level of individual support and extensive facilities, you will enjoy a bespoke learning experience.
Connect personal passions, ideas, and a broad range of skills to help you become an artist who can exhibit work with confidence and build an exciting professional career.
Advance your studio practice in our specialist facilities as you explore traditional techniques and emerging technologies to reach your potential as a professional artist.
Challenge the boundaries and redefine what constitutes fine art as you learn from a community of professional artists, curators and theorists.
Develop technical skills and connect them with your drawing skills to create pro-level games assets.
Combine theory and practice as you develop high-quality projects, explore game-related AI and research future developments in the games industry.
Learn to prototype games using games engines, develop design documentation, conduct research, and create experiences.
A Games Design degree that combines the latest creative practice and academic research, placing you at the cutting edge of the global games industry.
Focus on creativity in the realm of gameplay programming and prepare to take a central role among artists, designers, and programming teams.
Learn from specialist designers and artists while working in high-quality, industry-standard facilities in the World Craft Town of Farnham.
Deepen your understanding of marketing, communications, PR and advertising within a sector of the creative industries that you’d want to specialise in.
Propel your career in management and help advance yourself to top-tier positions in the creative industries.
Develop your own voice through experimentation and research and graduate as a truly unique practitioner.
A Graphic Design degree with an emphasis on research and problem-solving, giving graphic designers the tools and confidence to develop their practice as skilled professional communicators.
Explore how human perception, action and emotion impact the design of digital systems and apply this to careers in the creative industries, including games, product, service and software design.
Experiment, play and be challenged to take risks with your work. This course is practice-based, with theory, context, and research all combined.
Explore all areas of illustration within a community of like-minded creatives and challenge yourself as you work towards becoming part of the next generation of illustrators.
Develop the in-demand design skills employers are looking for while building your own specialism in areas such as app design, information architecture, VR and user experience.
Taking a people-centred approach to design, you'll be graduate with a professional portfolio which reflect your skills and creative identity.
An Interior Design degree for designers who want to push their thinking, test their ideas, and grow their practice.
Gain the skills you need to get ready for a UK degree, including creative learning, English language development and cultural discovery.
A workshop-based course focusing on handmade objects and you'll learn in-depth practical making skills, gain understanding of historical, contextual and ethical concepts.
Add depth and breadth to your jewellery-making and design skills within a creative campus where top-class facilities and a culture of craft collide.
A specialised business degree designed to support your career development within the luxury sector.
Designed for make-up and hair professionals, by make-up and hair professionals, with an emphasis on work in the fashion industry.
Take the next step to becoming an architect with an MArch degree that will challenge you to design the spaces and buildings of the future.
Choose a traditional or practice-based route for your studies and develop an original written thesis, plus an accompanying creative work for practice-based candidates.
Develop the skills you need to become a contemporary producer, exploring multiple analogue and digital learning environments.
Learn about the fast-moving and increasingly global music industry and get the opportunity to explore your own interests within it
Take your existing skills and develop them into professional practice on our BA (Hons) Photography course.
Speculate, experiment and add complexity to your projects, using our extensive facilities to help you realise your ideas.
These courses help to raise your English language level to meet the entry requirements of the degree you want to study and prepare you to study in the field of art and design or business.
Develop your design practice and follow your own ideas as you create new or improved bespoke products and furniture.
Whether you’re looking to refine your direction, build new skills or define your design identity, this degree offers you the opportunity to discover your specialism and master your craft.
Complete the final stage in your training to become an architect with a flexible course that's taught mostly online.
Build upon existing qualifications, this course is aligned with the final year of our Fashion Design degree, giving you the skills needed to progress on to postgraduate study.
Boost your existing qualifications or prepare for postgraduate study on this course which is aligned with the final year of BA (Hons) Fashion Image & Styling.
This course is aligned with the final year of our Film Production degree and is ideal for students looking to build upon existing qualifications and gives you the skills needed to progress on to postgraduate study.
Bring together your thinking and develop ideas with the aim of consolidating your contemporary artistic practice on this course is aligned with the final year of our Fine Art degree.
Ideal for students looking to build upon existing qualifications, this course is aligned with the final year of our games degrees, giving you the skills needed to progress on to postgraduate study.
Aligned with the final year of our BA (Hons) Graphic Design degree, giving you the skills needed to progress on to postgraduate study.
Ideal for students looking to build upon existing qualifications, this course is aligned with the final year of our Illustration degree, giving you the skills needed to progress on to postgraduate study.
Gain the skills needed to progress on to postgraduate study on this course which is aligned with the final year of our Interior Design degree.
Bolster your existing skills and/or prepare for postgraduate study in this niche field of the fashion industry.
Aligned with the final year of our Product Design degree, this course is designed for students looking to build upon existing qualifications to gain the skills needed to progress on to postgraduate study.
Gain the skills you need to progress to postgraduate study and boost your knowledge on this course which is aligned with the final year of our Visual Communication degree.
Taught in the Maidstone Television Studios where some of the country’s top gameshows, programmes and even major Netflix productions have been filmed.
Location: Maidstone TV Studios
Be inspired by a creative fashion community and develop your own identity shaped by real-world industry experience.
Explore the creative potential of UX design through live briefs, industry engagement and your own research as you shape the future of digital experiences.
This hybrid course that embraces graphic design, illustration, animation, photography and moving images.
Become a cultural innovator who can use your work to entertain, inform and persuade on our MA in Visual Communication.
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