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Please Don't Eat The Art
Animal Life Drawing at UCA
Everyone is Welcome at UCA
Bri Chartrand
Giving Zizzi a mural makeover
Freshers' Fair
Explore one of the first big events of the academic year
Graduate Fashion Week
Peek behind the scenes of 2023 GFW
Oluwafemi Babalola
Colouring the UCA campus
Hayley Dickinson
From Farnham to LA
Kongphat Phaiboonnukulkij
Pitching his design at COP28

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Why UCA?

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We are the second highest-ranked specialist creative university in the UK for 2024, according to The Guardian.

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We are the third highest-ranked specialist creative university in the UK in The Times / Sunday Times and Daily Mail rankings for 2024.

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UCA is the UK's top specialist art and design university for world-leading research outputs in the most recent Research Excellence Framework. 

16 Apr 2025 UCA launches the Creative and Cultural Industries Leaders Network (CCILN)
15 Apr 2025 Students awarded prestigious British Council Venice Fellowship
04 Apr 2025 Awards a plenty at RTS Southern Awards

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