Courses in Clearing at UCA

Acting BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Train as an actor. Become a creator on our exciting industry connected BA (Hons) Acting degree course at UCA Farnham. 

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Conservatoire meets university

Our actor training is practical, vocational, and intensive – led by practising industry professionals – but you are also given the creative freedom to write, produce, and direct. That's what makes a UCA actor-creator – a performer who is employable across a wide range of skills and disciplines.

Stage, screen, and everything between

One week you may perform at a 400-seat theatre. The next, you might be on set in a custom-built film studio, or motion capture suite, or behind the mic in a recording studio. By graduation, you'll have a professional showreel, voicereel, headshots, and website – all produced as part of the course, in collaboration with other students and staff.

Big names, big lights

Our students have showcased their work at the National Theatre – a relationship unique to UCA. They’ve also performed at Shakespeare's Globe and screened their work at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and worked with the British Film Institute (BFI). Guest lecturers have included well-known actors and directors from stage and screen, as well as casting professionals from films like Skyfall and Spectre. UCA Acting is also recognised as a Graduate Course by Spotlight and Equity.

A community that keeps going

Through our Performance Indicator, you could be eligible for further acting, writing, producing and directing opportunities both during your time with us and after you graduate. Our alumni network is a part of the fabric of our programme, graduates are supported by our team long after they have left formal education.

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Animation BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Discover the animator you are, one film at a time on our renowned BA (Hons) Animation degree course at UCA Farnham.

Films first, tools and software second

Animation at UCA is built around a broad definition of the medium: any frame-by-frame manipulation of visual imagery. You'll learn techniques and tools across 2D, 3D, stop motion, and experimental approaches – always in service of the films and projects you're making. The tools support your ideas, but your ideas drive the work.

An art school with animation at its heart

Because UCA is a specialist creative arts university, you have access to resources most animation students don’t. Printmaking, ceramics, glass, woodworking, metalwork – all staffed by specialist technicians who'll induct you and let you experiment. The result is work that draws on real-world textures, materials, and craft – a hybrid approach driving the cutting edge of the industry right now.

Taught by filmmakers. Visited by Oscar winners

Every one of your tutors is a practising filmmaker. You'll also learn from guest lecturers and visiting practitioners including Oscar and BAFTA-recognised animators, directors from studios like Aardman, and international festival jurors. Industry professionals give regular one-to-one feedback on your work – specific, personal responses to what you're making.

Festival-ready from second year

International film festivals are where studios discover new talent – and UCA students are there early. Many students have work selected for festivals, with second-year films regularly getting picked. You'll learn how to submit, contextualise and present your work professionally, building visibility and industry connections well before graduation.
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Architecture (RIBA Part 1) BA (Hons)

Location: Canterbury
Integrated foundation year available

Where Architects learn to think like Artists. There's a type of architect that every studio wants to hire. Architects who see the world differently, tackle problems from unexpected angles, and bring creative confidence to technically complex work. They're rigorously trained, but ready to experiment. That's a Architect from UCA's BA (Hons) Architecture degree.

Studio culture, not lecture culture

Architecture here is taught through real studio practice: project work, one-to-ones, workshops, and reviews. You'll have your own dedicated space in your studio – somewhere to leave your work, return the next day, and build ideas over time. It’s an environment and process designed and led by real, practising architects. So when you land your first job, you’ll fit right in.

Technical rigour, creative edge

You'll develop precision and imagination together – through design studio projects, construction technology, and hands-on making. You'll work with 3D scanners, laser cutters, CNC machines, and VR – alongside traditional drawing and model-making. You'll graduate understanding not just how buildings look – but how they work, how they last, and how they serve the people inside them.

Industry-ready from day one

You will be taught by award-winning architects every week. As your designs develop, you'll consult with structural engineers, landscape architects, and sustainability specialists – just as you would in a professional studio. In second year, you’ll be mentored by local practices. In third year, RIBA connects you with firms further afield. And at the end-of-year show, you’ll showcase your skills to industry judges who regularly offer graduates jobs on the spot.

Architecture to change the world

This is a course that will take you beyond learning how to design buildings and structures. You'll explore how architecture affects communities, equity, and sustainability – from climate-responsive design to how public spaces serve human needs. You don’t need a technical background to join us – just an open mind, a creative flair, and a passion for what architecture can do for the world.

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Body Art BA (Hons)

Location: Canterbury
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Study the UK's only Body Art degree course at UCA Canterbury. Tattoo, drag, transhumanism, performance – studied together for the first time.

A whirlwind of alternative arts

When you study Body Art, one week you're studying the cultural history of body marking; the next, you're working with a drag artist, a bodybuilder, or creating sensory sculptures from scanned body parts. You’ll arrive in the studio thinking you’re set on one path, then discover several more that call out to you.

Skills that can take you anywhere

The best practitioners have portfolio careers – they exhibit, illustrate, tattoo, document, and design. Some travel the world as reportage illustrators; others run studios, produce publications, or work in film. This Body Art degree gives you the range to build your own combination, developing skills across multiple disciplines from day one.

A subject taken seriously

Body art has shaped cultures, identities, and communities for centuries – but has never been treated as a subject worthy of academic study until now. The industries it touches are financially enormous, its impact on society is immeasurable. You’ll study all of it deeply, building an understanding that changes how you see the work and your place in it.

Where your people are

This is the degree that body art's creative community has been waiting for – built for the people who've always been drawn to this world and wanted somewhere that understood it (and them). It’s a different route into the industries you love, or a door into industries you didn’t know existed. It’s a place for you to be fiercely creative and completely yourself.

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Business and Management (top-up) BA (Hons)

Location: Epsom

The business conversion for people who think creatively, equivalent to the final year of an undergraduate degree, our BA (Hons) Business and Management (top-up) course at UCA Epsom enables you to build upon an existing qualification such as a foundation degree or an HND. 

Business education through a creative industries lens

Examine innovation, entrepreneurial practice, and business models through the lens of the creative and cultural sectors, developing the kind of commercially aware, creatively literate thinking that these industries need in their leadership. The BA Business & Management top-up course is designed to build on your prior learning and prepare you for a range of careers in the global creative industries. 

Assessment designed around freedom

Your end-of-year project gives you the freedom to define your own direction. Outcomes can be creative, entrepreneurial, or research-led – a brand launch, a business model, a data-driven strategy, or something nobody's thought of yet.

Future-proofed, not trend-chasing

You’ll go beyond today's challenges and into tomorrow's. You'll explore emerging technologies, data ethics, automation, sustainability, and the global shifts reshaping how creative industries operate. We can’t predict the future, but we can give you the capability and confidence to respond to it when it comes

Taught by real practitioners

Your teaching team brings professional experience spanning agencies, brand management, fashion, publishing, finance, and creative directorship. Guest lecturers and live briefs ensure your learning stays connected to what's happening in the market today.

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Business and Management BA (Hons)

Location: Canterbury, Epsom & Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Our BA (Hons) degree in Business and Management is the business degree for people who think and work creatively.

For 2026 entry this course is only available at our Epsom campus but for 2027 entry it will be available at all our campuses in Canterbury, Epsom and Farnham.

Please note, if you choose to study the Integrated Foundation Year this will be taught at Epsom and once completed you move to your chosen campus for your degree course.

Business skills, creative context

Surrounded by fashion designers, filmmakers, photographers and artists, you'll see and understand how the creative industries work first-hand. You’ll watch the wheels turn in media, fashion, and advertising and it will shape how you think about business, strategy, and leadership. When you graduate, you’ll have a unique edge to set you apart as you launch your career.

Taught by unique talents

Your tutors bring years of top-level experience from agencies, publishing houses, and brands – and many run businesses alongside teaching. Every session is shaped by people who understand what the industry actually expects from you, because they've sat on the other side of the table.

Your final project, your way

Instead of a dissertation, your third year is all about building something that reflects your passion in business and creativity – it could be a brand campaign, a digital product, a podcast, a startup pitch, or a visual narrative. The choice is yours and your work is judged by industry professionals. 

Built for careers that move

Professional development runs through every year – from live industry briefs and guest lectures to sessions in data analytics, content creation, and digital tools. You'll build skills in branding, strategy, finance, and supply chain, preparing you for roles across marketing, operations, entrepreneurship, and much, much more.

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Ceramics & Glass BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Let fire, material, and curiosity shape who you become as a maker on our BA (Hons) Ceramics & Glass degree course.

Facilities you won't find elsewhere

Our workshops are among the most comprehensive at any UK university – a fully operational glass hot shop, lampworking stations, kilns for casting and fusing, potters' wheels, hand-building spaces, glaze technology rooms, and 3D clay printers. You can also access wood, metal, digital fabrication, and printmaking, opening up cross-disciplinary possibilities.

Find your material. Find your direction

In first year, you'll work across both ceramics and glass, building foundational skills side-by-side. From second year, the choice is yours – go deep in one, or explore what happens when you bring both together. This is a course built around your curiosity – there's no pressure to decide before you're ready, and no house style to follow. Your vision is all that matters.

A close community that makes you braver

Working in small groups, this is an intimate, supportive environment where you know your tutors well. Open-plan workshops mean skills are shared between students and creative confidence builds through daily studio culture. Your peers across the wider crafts programme become collaborators, critics, and friends – and that sense of community is something our students consistently value.

Real-world practice, built in from the start

Professional development starts from day one. You will have worked on live briefs with New Ashgate Gallery, created site-specific work with Surrey Hills Arts, and visited working studios – from the pottery supplying Gail's Bakery to commercial glass-blowing workshops. By graduation, you'll have a professional portfolio, real industry networks, and the creative confidence to pursue a dream career in crafts.

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Comic & Concept Art BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Worldbuilding, character creation, and storytelling – all rolled into one, on our BA (Hons) Comic & Concept Art degree course.

Where your voice matters most

Your individual creative identity – the worlds you build, the stories you tell, the style you develop – is treated as your most valuable professional asset. From the first year of this concept art course, you'll develop your own projects and ideas alongside set briefs. Specialist pathways from second year let you sharpen that identity further. Every step is designed to help you become a more distinctive artist.

Concepts that go somewhere

In second year, you'll work with the games students on campus in a collaboration that mirrors real studio pipelines. You'll create character sheets, environment designs, props, and storyboards – then see that work actually built into playable productions. It's concept art as pre-production for something real and it will fundamentally change how you think about your own work.

Run your own convention

You'll plan, produce, and deliver a public-facing comic and concept art convention on campus. Whether you're tabling and selling work, cosplaying your character, speaking, or managing the event, you'll build the kind of entrepreneurial and communication skills a creative career demands. 

Taught by working artists

The teaching team includes an Eisner Award-nominated comic artist, a Guildford Games Award nominee for Best Educator, an award-winning novelist and concept artist, and a world-famous pioneer of the British games industry. With that squad on your side, you’ll learn to create in a way that you never thought was possible.

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Computer Science BSc (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Code, create, and collaborate – with creativity at the heart of your skills.

The art school advantage

The developers who go furthest aren't just technically brilliant – they understand how their code connects to the process of making. At UCA Farnham, artists and designers are your classmates from day one, and working alongside them changes the software you write, and the kind of developer you become.

Built for creative industries

Games, film, immersive media, interactive systems – this course is built with those destinations in mind. You’ll collaborate with students in these industries and get first-hand feedback on your work from potential future colleagues (or customers.)

Part of something bigger

At UCA you study alongside postgraduate and PhD researchers, not just fellow first years. That proximity to people testing ideas at a higher level brings a different kind of intellectual energy to your learning – and a sharper sense of where the field is heading.

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Creative Industries Management in Fashion (top-up) BA (Hons)

Location: Epsom

Become the business behind the brand. One year to think strategically and lead creatively, with our top-up BA (Hons) Creative Industries Management in Fashion degree course at UCA Epsom. 

Top-up an existing qualification

Equivalent to the final year of an undergraduate degree, this course enables you to 'top-up' an existing qualification, such as a foundation degree or an HND. You'll join us in year 3 with your previous knowledge and accredited learning, achieving a greater level of independence with self-managed research, study and practice. 

Strategic thinking for creative industries

You'll examine how innovation and entrepreneurial practice work in real business contexts. You’ll evaluate barriers, identify opportunities, and develop original solutions for challenges across product lifecycles, post-consumption models, and decision-making.

An ending that defines your beginning

The end-of-year project is where everything comes together. You'll independently research, develop, and present a substantial body of work that demonstrates creative, strategic, and critical capability. Outcomes can be entrepreneurial, research-led, or creatively driven – whatever aligns with your specialist interests and career goals.

Future-facing by design

We train you to think ahead of the industry, otherwise you’ll trail behind it. You'll explore sustainability, emerging technologies, global shifts in fashion media and retail, and the evolving professional roles that will define the next decade. This insight feeds directly into your major project and ensures you graduate with the ability to spot and respond to trends.

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Design for Theatre & Screen BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Design the worlds where stories are told – for stage, screen, and everything in between on our exciting BA (Hons) Design for Theatre & Screen degree course at UCA Farnham.

The full picture

Work across set, props, costume, puppetry, stop motion, and digital environments throughout your three years – developing real depth in the area that inspired you, while understanding how every part of performance and production design connects. When you step onto a professional set for the first time, you’ll feel comfortable and confident among your peers.

From sketch to full scale

Your days are spent in studios and workshops alongside technicians who know their materials inside out, and the rhythm of the course means you're always moving between designing and making – so your ideas are constantly tested against real materials and real space.

Industry woven in

Students have showcased at the National Theatre and visited working sets of huge productions, while placements at Apple have turned into graduate jobs. Guest creatives – from the likes of Marvel, the Royal Ballet, and Bristol Old Vic – have brought the working world into our studios throughout the year.

Something to show for it

By graduation, you'll have taken a piece of work – a model box, a full-scale costume, a digital environment, a VR walkthrough – all the way from first sketch to final realisation, giving you something resolved and complete to carry straight into interviews, competitions, or applications.

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Digital Art BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Push the boundaries of art, tech, and creation.

Please note, for 2027 entry this course will be titled BA (Hons) Digital Media Arts. 

Art first. Technology always.

Is a VR headset a canvas or a sculpture? Can a dataset be a portrait? You’re the one who decides the answers. You'll learn to code, build interactive systems, and work with immersive media – but the driving question is always: what do you want to say? Creative freedom and expression are built into this course from the very beginning.

Built to cross over

The first year of your Digital Art degree starts with hybrid practices – Digital Art, Computer Science, Craft, Animation, and Fine Art students thrown together to make work none could make alone. Those collisions become collaborations so that, by your final year, you'll have a network of art-minded people who think completely differently to the way you do.

Learn how to keep learning

If you work in tech, the reality is that tools you use in year one may be obsolete by the time you graduate. UCA's Digital Art course is built around that reality – teaching you how to pick up new platforms, adapt your practice, and stay curious. UCA graduates leave with a creative identity and artistic vision that flexes with the technology but doesn’t depend on it. UCA Digital Artists are futureproof.

ISEA at the centre

ISEA International – the global network for art, science, and technology – is headquartered within this programme at UCA Farnham. That means live project briefs, competition entries, paid opportunities, and graduate awards connecting you to international practice while you're still studying

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Digital Marketing & Social Media BA (Hons)

Location: Canterbury, Epsom & Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Creative thinkers become marketing leaders on our BA (Hons) Digital Marketing & Social Media degree course.

For 2026 entry this course is only available at our Epsom campus but for 2027 entry it will be available at all our campuses in Canterbury, Epsom and Farnham. If you choose to study the Integrated Foundation Year this will be taught at Epsom and once completed you move to your chosen campus for your degree course.

Please note, for 2027 entry this course will be titled BA (Hons) Digital Marketing. 

Creative instinct. Commercial strategy

You'll develop a thorough grounding in marketing strategy, consumer behaviour, audience insight, and data-driven decision-making – but always through the lens of the creative industries. Your projects, briefs, and assignments are rooted in media, branding, and culture, so you graduate with both the business knowledge and the creative fluency that employers look for.

Taught by real marketing professionals

Your tutors live and breathe marketing and social media. They bring experience in agencies, fashion, publishing, brand strategy, content creation, and digital consultancy. Guest lecturers include influencers and creative directors – and your final major project is judged by an industry panel, not just academics.

Real briefs. Real clients. Real momentum

From the first year, you're pitching to clients, producing campaigns, and creating work with real-world application. There are lots of opportunities to work with businesses looking for creative talent, giving you the chance to build the kind of skills, experience, and network that will set you up for success in your career.

A campus built on creativity

Collaboration happens naturally at UCA Epsom. Fashion students run their ideas past marketers, business pitch decks are as common to see as mannequins. And with screen printing, photo studios, and other creative facilities all in one place – you’ll come out with an open mind to what creativity can look like for you.

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Fashion Atelier BA (Hons)

Location: Epsom
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Train to craft high-end garments for luxury brands on the UK’s only BA (Hons) Fashion Atelier degree course. 

What does atelier mean in fashion?

In fashion, an atelier is a specialised workshop where skilled designers craft high-end garments. At UCA, our Fashion Atelier degree immerses you in this tradition and equips you with the precision, craftsmanship, and luxury design skills needed to create bespoke pieces.

One of a kind

No other UK university offers Fashion Atelier. Running for close to two decades, it was built in response to industry demand for graduates who combine creative vision with advanced technical skill. That means you'll leave with a skillset and a portfolio that simply aren't available elsewhere.

Finished pieces, again and again

This is a physical course where learning happens through making. Whatever you design, you make – to a standard that reflects industry expectation. Through bespoke tailoring, couture sewing, and specialist draping, you’ll develop the precision, control, and problem-solving instincts that set makers apart from designers.

Outstanding and industry level

The course has its own exclusive studio space – purpose-built with generous natural light, industrial machinery, and specialist equipment for the kind of sustained, hands-on work that atelier demands. You’re training in the same environments and with the same kit that you’ll encounter in your career.

Experience that gets results

Students regularly enter the Golden Shears – the most prestigious bespoke tailoring competition in the country – and UCA has consistently placed among the finalists. Our graduates go on to work with some of the most respected names in fashion, from Savile Row to international designers.

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Fashion Branding & Communication BA (Hons)

Location: Epsom
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

On our BA (Hons) Fashion Branding & Communication degree course, tell stories that move fashion forward. Build brands that people remember.

Learn to think visually

From your first project to your final major work, you'll develop your ability to communicate through visual language – photography, art direction, editorial design, video, and digital media. You'll research, concept, and produce fashion media to a professional standard – and develop the kind of creative instincts that set UCA graduates apart.

The thinking behind the work

Making beautiful work is only half of the job. Through modules in marketing foundations, brand development, audience insight, and data technology, you'll develop the strategic understanding and ability to turn creative ideas into commercial products.

A school built for creativity

At Epsom, fashion designers, stylists, photographers, and marketers study under the same sky – which shapes your experience and your portfolio. You'll produce your own magazines in the print studio, shoot in photo studios, and research using industry platforms including WGSN, Mintel, and the Vogue archive.

Choose your own final project

Your dissertation isn’t a 10,000 word essay, it’s whatever you want it to be. Students have chosen it as an opportunity to launch a beauty brand, produce podcasts, or create visual narratives that blend storytelling and strategy to show off their commercial acumen. Whatever you’re drawn to is a direction you can go in.

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Fashion Business & Management BA (Hons)

Location: Epsom
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Learn the business behind the brand and study creative thinking for the fashion industry. on our BA (Hons) Fashion Business & Management degree, taught at UCA Epsom.  

Fashion first. Business always

Every module is built around the realities of the global fashion industry – buying, merchandising, marketing, finance, entrepreneurship – taught by people who still work within it. You'll build commercial skills through a creative lens: a combination that employers are always searching for.

Built to think forward

On our Fashion Business & Management degree course you won't just study how the industry works now – you'll examine where it's going and how you’re going to keep up. Every session involves critical speculation: what does the data say, what are forecasters predicting, and what do you think comes next? You’ll develop skills, instinct, and a way of thinking that will make you future-proof.

Learn to lead responsibly

Sustainability is fundamentally built into this course as a creative and commercial opportunity. From understanding sustainable accounting to learning how to build businesses around fashion's circular economy – repair, customisation, upcycling, resale – you'll develop an informed and responsible perspective that can improve the future of fashion.

From passion to profession

Fashion Business & Management is a course designed to channel your energy and interests into a rewarding and long-lasting career. You’ll start broad and then narrow your focus as you find your fit: luxury, high street, agency, start-up. At UCA, whatever you’re drawn to is a direction you can go in.

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Fashion Design BA (Hons)

Location: Epsom
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Study Fashion Design built around your vision, your direction, and your future on our degree course at UCA Epsom.

Fashion and textiles, together

Opportunities to learn textile processes will sit alongside your fashion design learning here. You'll develop a material intelligence that few students have the chance to: understanding  the influence of textiles for fashion. It's a rare combination in UK fashion education, and it gives you a deeper understanding of materials, sustainability, and craft that sets your work apart.

Turn passion into profession

Commercial ready-to-wear, plus-size, adaptive, activewear, luxury – we champion you to choose the path that you’re most drawn to. Every experiment is part of your journey to finding your voice in fashion. Above all, this course champions individuality.

Where you'll find your people

The fashion industry can be high-pressure and competitive. We'll prepare you for a fast-paced career, but we’ll support you to experiment, discover, and develop whilst you’re with us. The studio culture is collaborative – it’s a place to find your people and find out exactly what you want to do.

Smaller campus. Bigger support

Epsom is compact, connected, and close to London's fashion industry – without the intensity that can come with studying in it. You'll know your tutors and they'll know your work. With several fashion courses on one campus, you'll share skills, collaborate across disciplines, and be part of a creative community that will stay with you for life.

Recognised and trusted by industry

In 2025, nine students were shortlisted for Graduate Fashion Foundation Awards – including the Zandra Rhodes Fashion Textiles Prize and the Silver Award for Best Catwalk Show. Graduate Fashion Week also featured a UCA winner for Best Solo Catwalk, as well as placing silver for Best of Graduate Fashion Week. Students have secured internships at Burberry, Alexander McQueen, Givenchy, JW Anderson, Simone Rocha and Tommy Hilfiger.

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Fashion Image & Styling BA (Hons)

Location: Epsom
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Stylist, Photographer, or Creative Director? Then our BA (Hons) Fashion Image & Styling degree course at UCA Epsom is the one for you.

Three skills, one person

Photography, styling, and creative direction don't exist in isolation. You'll develop all three as interconnected practices, building a 360-degree understanding of how fashion images are conceived, produced, and communicated. By the time you graduate, you'll be able to walk onto any set and understand every role within it.

Ideas first, then everything else

This is a concept-driven course. You'll learn to build visual arguments, develop narratives, and draw on culture, identity, and contemporary references to make images that say something. Critical thinking is embedded into your studio practice, your research, and the way you approach every brief.

On set by default

Your tutors are active practitioners working across the fashion image industry – shooting editorials, directing campaigns, styling shows, and producing content for a range of platforms and outputs within industry. Their teaching is grounded in current practice, so the way you work on the course reflects the pace, pressure, and industry practices.

Built around who you're becoming

You won't arrive knowing exactly what you want to be. First year is designed for exploration, letting you test ideas across disciplines and figure out where your creative instincts sit. Second year, you’ll develop and expand on creative practices and technologies. And by third, the guardrails come off entirely: a self-directed major project that's yours to define, yours to own, and the centrepiece of the portfolio you'll use to launch your career. 

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Film Production BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Your story. Your crew. Your film. And the skills that make it taught our BA (Hons) Film Production degree course.

You make films. Constantly

Every module is practical. You'll be investigating, analysing and critiquing the films you love. First year, you experiment across every role: directing, shooting, editing, sound, producing. Second year deepens your craft through dedicated fiction and documentary modules. Third year is your graduate film – a major collaborative production where you lead a department.

A virtual production studio built to broadcast standard

Our VP studio features a curved LED screen with ceiling panels, meaning you can shoot in locations you'd never be able to access – a cave, a skyscraper roof, a desert island – all without leaving campus. You'll also work alongside games students who build virtual environments for your shoots, opening up a convergence between film and interactive media that's reshaping the industry right now.

Your entire crew on campus

At a solely creative arts university, everyone in the coffee queue is a potential partner: actors, musicians, sound engineers, prop makers. Collaboration between courses is what UCA is all about. By third year, you'll have a network of creative professionals you know and trust – your future crew already on your close friends list.

A teaching team still making films

Your lecturers aren't retired from the industry – they're still in it. Screenwriters, documentary filmmakers, editors, directors, and technicians with a passion for the craft that our students love. They don't just sign out equipment – they challenge your choices, refine your kit list, and make sure you're getting the best possible result from every shoot.

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Fine Art BA (Hons) - Canterbury

Location: Canterbury
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Find your voice on BA (Hons) Fine Art at UCA Canterbury and study at a specialist art school – with the space and freedom to think big.

Your studio, your practice

At UCA we provide you with dedicated studio spaces and bookable project rooms, where you can work at scale and in private. As a specialist art school, everyone here – from technicians to librarians to tutors – understands creative practice. You won't spend any of your time justifying what you do, you'll spend it making.

Find your own voice

There’s no house style here and no two UCA artists are anything alike. You could be painting, performing, filming, or fabricating – this Fine Art degree meets you where you are and supports you to become what you want to be. At our degree shows, you'll see the proof: every graduate's work is genuinely their own.

Your work in the real world

In your second year, you hit a turning point – a moment you take your work beyond the studio and test it off-campus with real public audiences. In year three you'll take over much of the campus for the degree show, transforming buildings, galleries, hallways, and outdoor spaces into your very own exhibition.

A unique position to create

Studying in Canterbury puts you within easy reach of Kent’s thriving art scene, London, and even Europe. You’ve got the space to breathe and create, the time to think and experiment, and the connections to find inspiration when you need it.

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Fine Art BA (Hons) - Farnham

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Fine Art grounded in materials and making. Because if you can't make it, it's just an idea. Embark on a journey of self-discovery as you become a fully-fledged fine artist on our BA (Hons) Fine Art degree course in Farnham.

Materials first. Always

You’ll test ideas and concepts through material exploration – in the studios, print rooms, metal workshops, and the plaster and woodwork workshops. You’ll explore how paint behaves, how sculpture occupies space, and how different processes shape creative ideas. From there, you choose your direction; refine a discipline or experiment widely. That cycle of learning, testing, and developing your own approach continues throughout the degree.

Every workshop you’ll need, all on one campus

Fine Art has been taught at Farnham since 1866, and the facilities reflect that history: a bronze foundry, metalwork and welding, ceramics, printmaking, woodwork, plaster casting, digital fabrication, and generous light-filled studio spaces – all on a single, contained campus with dedicated technical staff. You won't need to cross town or book into another department. It's all here, and you'll be inducted into it from the start.

No dissertation

There's no dissertation on this course. Your final-year research is a practical project – a portfolio of creative work alongside a critical report, in whatever form your practice demands. Theory, context, and criticality are taught in the studio – through the act of making.

The business of being an artist

In your final year, you'll apply for real open calls and competitions, develop exhibition strategies, learn how to price your work and handle your tax return – the things that bridge being a creative and being a working artist. This is a course that celebrates commercial savvy as much as creative expression – we’re here to train artists who can be paid for their talents.

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Games Arts BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Create characters. Tell stories. Build worlds on our BA (Hons) Games Arts degree.

Traditional craft meets real-time production

You'll develop drawing, painting, anatomy, and visual composition alongside 3D modelling, texturing, rigging, and engine integration. From sculpting characters in ZBrush to lighting environments in game engines, your work bridges artistic fundamentals and contemporary technical production – giving you the kind of range that pure software training can't match.

Build your world and direct the vision

Specialist modules take you from environment and prop production through to character art pipelines and original IP development. By second year, you'll be creating art bibles, defining visual identities, and art-directing your own game worlds – moving you from skilled artist to creative leader.

Make games, not just games art

You’ll collaborate inside a working production team of games students – making playable games alongside designers and developers. Work on the team in first year, lead the team in second year. Develop publishable titles and the confidence that when you walk into your first studio, nothing about the process surprises you.

Industry on your doorstep

UCA Farnham sits near to the UK's two largest developer hubs: Guildford and London. Guest speakers from studios like Epic, Supermassive Games and Ubisoft bring live industry context into your learning. You'll have the chance to present work at events such as Guildford Games Festival and GDLX. Industry-standard facilities – including motion capture and VR/AR labs– support your productions from day one.

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Games Design BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Build the world. Design the game. Lead the play on our BA (Hons) Games Design degree course at UCA Farnham.

A studio, not a classroom

This course is built around making games, not reading or writing about them. You'll work in cross-disciplinary teams alongside games artists and developers. In first year, you’ll learn the ropes as a junior developer. In second year, you’ll lead your own team. It's how the best studios train their people and it’s how we’ll train you to become the best.

Design that starts with the player

Gameplay, level design, systems, narrative — every module is grounded in how players experience the worlds you create. You'll build interactive environments, prototype mechanics, and iterate through structured playtesting. From your first project through to your self-directed Major Project, your design decisions will be tested, challenged, and refined by real player feedback.

Giants of gaming in the room with you

You'll pitch ideas, defend mechanics, and have the chance to present work at industry events including GDLX and Guildford Games Festival.

Built for where the industry is going

You'll work with current-generation engines and explore emerging platforms including VR and motion capture. But the core of the course protects what will never go out of fashion – systems thinking, player psychology, creative problem-solving.

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Graphic Design BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Ink on your hands. Pixels at your fingertips. Make the kind of work machines can’t.

A studio, not a classroom

Our graphic design studios are modelled on how creative businesses actually work. Expect collaboration, crits, fast-paced projects, and real deadlines. You'll work alongside your peers and tutors in an energetic, social space where ideas bounce off each other – just like they do in industry.

Your hands on everything

Use 3D modelling and letterpress to hand-print your own letterforms, experiment with AR and VR interfaces, tell stories with video, motion graphics, and sound – your toolkit here goes far beyond a screen. Working across analogue and digital processes builds a depth and sensitivity to materials that sets your portfolio apart and shows studios you can turn your hand to anything.

Real clients, real stakes

You won't wait until graduation to work with industry. Throughout this Graphic Design course, you'll take on live briefs from creative powerhouse like Ogilvy, big brands like Kickers, and important institutions like the NHS – pitching, presenting, and delivering campaigns with real commercial or social impact. It's how you build confidence, contacts, and a CV that opens doors.

Become unmistakably you

We're not here to squeeze you into a house style. Over three years on this Graphic Design degree, you'll develop a practice that is distinctively you –  grounded in strong ideas, shaped by experimentation, and backed by the range and adaptability that creative employers are looking for. You'll graduate as a razor sharp version of yourself.

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Illustration BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Learn the language of illustration and find your visual voice.

Think through doing, learn through making.

Everything on this Illustration course happens in the studio. Ideas, context, and critical thinking are taught through making: printmaking, letterpress, screen-printing, drawing, digital. Within minutes of arriving at UCA Farnham, you're working. No lecture halls, no dissertation – just you, your portfolio, and the formidable set of skills you’re acquiring through extensive practice.

Live briefs, real partners

You'll work on live briefs from wildly diverse companies like Toyota, Hallmark, Netflix, and Huawei, and have the chance to enter competitions including the Penguin Design Awards, Folio Society, and Macmillan Prize. Creative agents from big names like Grand Matter and Heart Agency review final-year portfolios and help you find your place in the illustration industry.

Find your own voice

We celebrate individuality as a big marker of success. As part of this Illustration degree you'll develop your own visual language across editorial, narrative, sequential, products, typography, and more. This is a course that rewards the confidence to take creative risks, and gives you the space and encouragement to find a voice that could only ever be yours.

Structured to let you experiment

Play and risk-taking is how you’ll learn – and where the best work comes from. On this illustration degree you’ll always know what's expected, which gives you freedom to push boundaries. Taught by highly-experienced and industry-active illustrators, you'll learn lessons that you’ll keep referring back to when you launch your own creative career.

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Interior Design BA (Hons)

Location: Canterbury
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Learn the art of influencing how people experience space on our BA (Hons) Interior Design course at UCA Canterbury.

Please note, for 2027 entry this course will be titled BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design. 

Space to think at scale

Your studio is yours and yours alone. Dedicated, accessible, and big enough to work at the kind of scale that clients demand. You won’t share these spaces with other courses, so you can build models and material studies that stay and grow with you across the year – no need to pack away after your lessons.

Clients in the classroom

Live client projects are part of every year of this Interior Design degree. Real organisations are involved all throughout the design process – shaping briefs, giving feedback, and attending final presentations. You'll experience a genuine simulation of how professional practice works.

A connected campus

From seminar to Fabrication Lab to 3D printer to sculpture studio – everything you need is on campus. With industry-standard equipment in every studio and workshop, you can design, build, and test as quickly as your imagination can.

Designed to design for people

The best interior designers are brilliant listeners. Through a teaching approach built on conversation, questioning, and client engagement, you'll develop a skill that employers value most – how to understand what people really need from a space and how to meet it with design.

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Jewellery & Silversmithing BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Fine metal makers learn through heat, pressure and patience. They find their ideas at the bench, not just on the page. UCA’s BA (Hons) Jewellery & Silversmithing degree about learning through hand-making objects within a community of makers.

World-class craft facilities

Our workshops are some of the country’s best. Forty individual benches, each with gas torches, soldering stations and ventilation. A dedicated casting suite, chemical room, polishing equipment, and a soundproofed hammer room. Beyond metals, you have access to wood, ceramics, glass, digital fabrication, and printmaking – giving you the freedom to push your practice wherever your ideas want to take you.

A making culture, not a design brief

Everything here is hands-on, you’ll develop through experimentation, iteration, and the kind of skills that only come from hours at the bench. You'll learn traditional metalworking alongside emerging techniques, building fluency across every process. We call it thinking through making, and it's at the heart of everything we do.

Small cohorts and a real craft community

With small groups in big workshops, you'll be known by your tutors, your technicians, and your peers. Our open-plan workshops foster a studio culture where skills are shared, feedback is generous, and creative confidence grows over time. It's a close, supportive environment where you can take risks, experiment boldly, and find your own direction without pressure to conform.

Industry exposure from day one

Professional practice is woven through every year. You'll work on live briefs with partners like New Ashgate Gallery, enter national competitions such as the Goldsmiths' Craft & Design Council Awards and the British Art Medal Society prize, and build a professional portfolio and network long before you graduate.

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Make-up & Hair Design BA (Hons)

Location: Epsom
Optional professional work placement year available

Become a visual artist who thinks, concepts, and creates for print, screen, and show on our BA (Hons) Make-up & Hair Design degree course.

The design behind the look

Make-up and hair is a design discipline. You'll learn to think critically about beauty, identity and representation – and channel that thinking into how you concept and art-direct. Expect conversations that start with a viral moment on social media and lead into deep contextual discussions. Ideas are what give your work meaning, and what will set your portfolio (and your talents) apart.

Your studio is your classroom

Lectures, workshops, reviews – they all happen where the mirrors and kits are. Learning is hands-on from the start, with technical sessions kept short and immediately followed by practice. It's an environment designed around how make-up and hair artists actually work, not how universities traditionally teach. You'll build professional habits, safe working practices, and creative confidence in the same space, at the same time.

Fashion, film, screen and beyond

You’ll learn skills that can travel: into editorial and campaigns, film and TV, theatre, events, beauty brands, cosmetology, and beyond. You'll learn the differences between styling for print and styling for screen, and you'll build the adaptability to move between them. The most successful artists in this industry work across several disciplines – we’re training you to join them.

Collaboration is built in

You’ll never work in isolation at UCA. You'll be on set with fashion photographers, stylists, designers, and creative directors from our other fashion courses – understanding how your work fits into the bigger picture. By the time you step onto your first set in your first grad job, you’ll have a deep understanding of how every role works.

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Music & Sound Production BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Optional professional work placement year available

Produce music. Design sound. Launch your career from industry-standard studios on our BA (Hons) Music & Sound Production degree course.

Industry-standard from day one

You'll work in a real recording studio with industry-standard kit: mics, outboard equipment, and an ever-growing collection of instruments. Alongside this sits a 7.1.2 surround sound dubbing suite, a Foley and sound design room, dedicated editing suites, and live performance venues – all the spaces you'll work in professionally.

Taught by live practitioners

Your tutors produce records, run labels, compose for screen, perform live, and publish research. They collaborate in creative collectives, modelling the working relationships you'll build throughout your career. This means the curriculum stays current, adapting to the latest developments in a fast-moving industry, so your skills stay razor sharp and fit for purpose.

A campus full of creatives

At UCA Farnham, you're surrounded by filmmakers, animators, actors, and game designers – all of them need sound for their projects. You're not on the edges of a creative community here, you’re right in the middle of it – which means you’ll develop the kind of experiences and portfolios that few students have the chance to.

Broad by design

We’ve developed this course to be intentionally broad, to reflect the diverse careers that come out of it. Write and produce your own music, engineer and mix for others, design sound for screen, code software instruments, or launch a label – the choice is well and truly yours.

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Photography BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Shoot it. Print it. Show it. Train at UCA Farnham; the place known for producing some of photography’s best talents.

Get your hands dirty

Full colour and black-and-white analogue darkrooms. Print-finishing rooms. Professional photo studios equipped with industry-standard flash and continuous lighting. Large-format plate cameras, fully manual 35mm SLRs, high-resolution digital medium format. The equipment on campus ranges from the rare to studio-standard – and working across all of it builds a sensitivity to light, materials, and process that digital screens can't teach.

80 years of photographers

Add your name to the list of greats who have trained at UCA: Anna Fox, Sunil Gupta, Eileen Perrier, and Mark Harrison, plus new talent food photographer Alex Luck, music photographer Matt Chapman, and artist duo Luke & Nik – alongside graduates leading teams at the V&A, the Financial Times and Wallpaper* magazine. When you graduate, you join that network – and it opens doors.

Every kind of photographer

Documentary, portraiture, studio, editorial, events, commercial – most photographers work across several genres, especially early in their careers. This course is built around that reality. You'll develop the specialism you love while building the range to take on the work that pays.

Real briefs, real audiences

You'll present your work in public exhibitions, collaborate with graphic designers on campaigns for real clients and communities, and build professional skills in marketing, pricing and contracts. Past and present partners include the National Portrait Gallery and South Hill Park Arts Centre, where students have exhibited and presented work, the Financial Times, photo director runs workshops and portfolio reviews on campus.

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Product Design BA (Hons)

Location: Canterbury
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Master through making, in workshops brimming with craft, curiosity, and experimentation on our BA (Hons) Product Design degree course.

The workshop is your classroom

Your studio sits right next door to the workshop and you’ll move constantly between designing and making, testing ideas physically within minutes of having them. Laser cutting, CNC milling, wood, metal, plastics, casting, 3D printing – it's all here, and it's yours to use.

See solutions nobody else can

The best product designers don't follow formulas. Over three years of relentless experimentation on this Product Design course – trying, breaking, discovering – you'll develop a creative intuition that lets you see solutions others miss. That's a skill that will convert client pitches, win awards, and make you impossible to ignore.

Big problems, not just pretty objects

In the second year of your Product Design degree, your projects shift from personal exploration to professional application. Working with UN Sustainability Goals, live competition briefs, and industry partners, you'll learn to apply your design thinking to problems that can make a difference to the world.

Try everything. Seriously, everything

One student spent weeks in the photography darkroom and came back with a completely new direction for their project. Another collected coffee grounds and ended up winning the Andersen EV competition at London Design Week 2024, with their bio-resin product. With small groups and huge facilities, you’ve got the space and freedom to follow your curiosity – wherever it leads.

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Studio Practice (Fashion Design) (top-up) BA (Hons)

Location: Epsom

Your voice. Your brand. One year to make it real. Our Studio Practice top-up course in Fashion Design at UCA Epsom will give you a fantastic fast-paced introduction to university education, and prepare you for a postgraduate fashion course.

Build on your existing knowledge

Ideal for international students and also suitable to UK students looking to build upon existing qualifications, this course is aligned with the final year of BA (Hons) Fashion Design, so you can progress to a Master's in a streamlined way, and  provides the perfect opportunity for you to realise your 2D design sketches into 3D creations that show you at your best.

Fashion and textiles, together

This course integrates the opportunity to develop textile processes directly into your fashion design practice – from weaving and print to dye and biomaterials. It's a rare combination in UK fashion education, and it gives you a deeper understanding of materials, sustainability, and craft that sets your work apart.

Freedom and flexibility

The final major project is your centrepiece. You set the brief, the audience, and the creative direction – whether that's a three-look collection, a digital-first presentation, or something else altogether. The course supports you to succeed with the strengths you have, offering flexible creative directions rather than a single template for what a fashion outcome should look like.

Smaller campus. Bigger support

Epsom is compact, connected, and close to London's fashion industry – without the intensity that can come with studying in it. You'll know your tutors and they'll know your work. With several fashion courses on one campus, you'll share skills, collaborate across disciplines, and be part of a creative community that will stay with you for life.

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Studio Practice (Fashion Image & Styling) (top-up) BA (Hons)

Location: Epsom

UCA’s one-year BA (Hons) Studio Practice degree course in Fashion Image & Styling is the ideal way to find your place in fashion and hone your skills. 

Join the final year

This course is essentially the final year of our three-year degree and will prepare you to engage at all levels of the global style business, from high street retail through to luxury brands. And, as it sits with and is closely aligned to BA (Hons) Make-Up & Hair Design, you’ll be able to work collaboratively on shoots and other projects.  

Your year. Your rules

The entire course is built around self-directed practice. Your major project – worth half your credits – is yours to define. You’ll choose the concept, the medium, and the creative direction. You might focus entirely on styling, go deep into fashion photography, or work across disciplines in a way that's entirely your own.

Step in at the top

You'll join a creative community already in motion, working in specialist fashion image studios alongside students who've been developing their practice for two years. You won't be starting from scratch but you also won’t be easing in – we’ll expect you to operate as a future fashion creative from day one.

Research that sharpens your practice

Your research feeds directly into your major project – helping you develop the critical framework, contextual awareness, and methodological confidence to make work that's informed and intentional. It's the kind of thinking that will give you depth and set your portfolio apart.

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Studio Practice (Filmmaking) (top-up) BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham

Your voice. Your crew. Your film.  One year to make it happen on our Studio Practice top-up course in Filmmaking at UCA Farnham.

A graduate film for your showreel

The 60-credit major project is the culmination of your degree. You'll collaborate on several graduate films and serve as Head of Department on one – drawing together everything you've learned into a piece of work you can take straight to festivals, agents, and employers.

Practice as research, learning through making

You’ll tackle a solo project where you become an expert in one area of filmmaking. It's practice-led and designed to stretch your skills and knowledge to their fullest. You'll work with teaching staff alongside group seminars – developing the ability to research, synthesise, and communicate complex ideas that every working filmmaker needs.

The freelance toolkit

You'll have the chance to develop trailers, sizzle reels, behind-the-scenes content, and funding proposals. You'll learn how freelancers operate, how to manage finances across multiple projects, and how to package your work for festivals. It's the practical stuff that will help you launch and sustain a rewarding career in film.

Industry-standard kit. Industry-active staff

All film equipment is available free of charge through a specialist hire department staffed by filmmakers who know exactly which lens works with which light. Every member of the teaching team is an active filmmaker – from scriptwriters and documentary makers to editors and directors.

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Studio Practice (Fine Art) (top-up) BA (Hons)

Location: Canterbury

UCA'S one-year BA (Hons) Studio Practice top-up degree in Fine Art provides you with the opportunity to bring together your thinking and developing ideas with the aim of consolidating your contemporary artistic practice.

Final Major Project

This course allows you to devise and follow your own individual work program in the guise of a Final Major Project, where you demonstrate your professional attitude and commitment, capacity for self-evaluation and effective synthesis of your ideas.

Prepare for Degree Show

In the first half of the year, you will be asked to develop a body of research and practice in order to generate a critical piece of writing that begins to articulate key themes and directions of interest as well as a look forward to the work you want to make and how you will develop these ideas for the final major project. The second half of the year involves the production of a major project which is exhibited as a final Degree Show and Portfolio that you will take from the course to form the basis of your professional body of work as newly graduated and as an emerging Fine Artist.

Guidance and support

Across the course you'll also have access to professional practice seminars and guidance to help you create your portfolio in preparation for graduation.

Tools at your disposal

The facilities and opportunities in Canterbury are second-to-none. There are exceptional workshops and facilities for traditional art practices, as well as the latest technology, so you can challenge and question the nature of artistic practice.

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Studio Practice (Games) (top-up) BA/BSc (Hons)

Location: Farnham

Our Studio Practice top-up course in Games at UCA Farnham is for games artists, designers, and developers who are ready to produce work at a professional standard.

Build on existing qualifications

Ideal for international students and also suitable to UK students looking to build upon existing qualifications, this course is aligned with Year 3 of our Games courses, so you can progress to a Master's degree in a streamlined way.

Choose your specialism. Own it

Whether your focus is real-time 3D asset creation and optimisation, gameplay and level design through prototyping and playtesting, or implementing interactive systems within game engines – this year is about going deep on the thing you love. You'll work within industry-standard pipelines and production processes, making research-informed decisions that sharpen both your technical competence and your creative identity.

A major project that proves your skills

The final assessment of this course is the centrepiece of your year. You independently design, implement, and evaluate a substantial game development project – demonstrating advanced skills, professional workflows, and the ability to manage a complete production cycle. It's the anchor piece to your portfolio and shows studios that you deliver.

Industry-standard facilities. Industry-active staff

Our games ecosystem includes a motion capture suite, virtual production studio, VR/AR lab, and a student incubator – all on one campus. Your teaching team have backgrounds in AAA studios, indie development, freelance production, and related fields including VFX and animation for film. Guest speakers from studios like Epic, Supermassive Games and Ubisoft, bring current industry practice directly into the studio.

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Studio Practice (Graphic Design) (top-up) BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham

Sharpen your practice, define your voice, and graduate ready for agencies, studios, and in-house from our Studio Practice top-up course in Graphic Design at UCA Farnham.

Build on existing qualifications

Ideal for international students and also suitable to UK students looking to build upon existing qualifications, this course is aligned with Year 3 of BA (Hons) Graphic Design, so you can progress to a Master's degree in a streamlined way.

Hit the ground running

You enter at Year 3, joining final-year BA Graphic Design students in the same studios, with the same tutors, the same facilities, and the same industry exposure. Everything happens in studios that run just like the real thing: busy, hands-on, creative.

A portfolio that's unmistakably you

This year is about focus and definition. Through your research and major project modules, you'll develop a body of work that is distinctively yours – grounded in strong ideas, shaped by experimentation, and backed by critical, creative thought.

Every workshop on campus is available

Digital, silkscreen, riso and 3D printing, letterpress, laser-cutting, photography, video, sound – most of our workshops are open to all students. Working across these processes gives your portfolio the kind of depth and character that a year on a laptop couldn’t touch.

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Studio Practice (Illustration) (top-up) BA (Hons)

Location: Farnham

Find your visual voice and sharpen your skills in one intensive year.

Ideal for international students and also suitable to UK students looking to build upon existing qualifications, this course is aligned with the final year of BA (Hons) Illustration, so you can progress to a Master's in a streamlined way.

Learn through making

Your creative research module isn't a written dissertation – it's visual work that demonstrates your conceptual depth, technical skill, and professional readiness. You'll develop research that positions your illustration within contemporary discourse. And above all else, you’ll be creating much more than you’ll be writing.

Choose your own direction

The end-of-year project is the centrepiece of the course. You'll manage a complete creative project from concept to resolution and public presentation – defining your own brief, your own visual language, and your own audience. There's no house style at UCA, we celebrate each illustrator's unique voice, and by the end, your work should be unmistakable.

The business of being an illustrator

You'll work on live briefs and competitions, define your professional identity, and build a portfolio that's ready to show. Creative agents come in to review student work, help identify where you sit in the market, and point you towards the right opportunities. 

One campus. Everything you need

UCA Farnham's facilities are all in one place: printmaking, woodwork, ceramics, metalwork, specialist IT suites, and generous studio spaces you can access at any time. Your tutors are practising illustrators who are also experienced educators – they know the industry well because they're still active in it.

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Studio Practice (Interior Design) (top-up) BA (Hons)

Location: Canterbury

Our Studio Practice top-up course in Interior Design at UCA Canterbury is for aspiring interior designers who are ready to master their craft via studios and workshops. You’ll sharpen your skills in design fundamentals, as well as learning how to truly understand what clients want and what users need – an invaluable skill for when you progress to postgraduate study or hit the job market.

Your studio, your scale

You'll work at the scale real interior projects demand – building models, prototypes, and installations that stay in your space and grow with your thinking. It's a fundamentally different experience from most institutions where studios are shared or time-limited.

A connected campus

Fabrications Lab, 3D workshop, CNC, laser cutting, sculpture studio, scrap library – it’s all available and all a two-minute walk from your studio. That means you can iterate and test rapidly – from concept to digital model to laser cutter to casting workshop , all before lunchtime.

Design for people, not for yourself

Learning to truly listen to a client is one of the greatest skills to have. It’s a skill we teach and develop through teaching built on conversation, questioning, and engagement. You'll graduate with the ability to understand exactly, and intuitively, what people really need from a space.

Build on existing qualifications

Ideal for international students and also suitable to UK students looking to build upon existing qualifications, this course is aligned with the final year of BA (Hons) Interior Design, enabling you to progress to a Master's course in a streamlined way.

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Studio Practice (Make-up & Hair Design) (top-up) BA (Hons)

Location: Epsom

Master your techniques and find your visual voice, on our BA (Hons) Studio Practice top-up degree in Make-Up & Hair Design at UCA Epsom. 

Expand your skills

In taking this course – which follows the third year of our BA (Hons) Make-Up & Hair Design degree, you’ll be required to develop and expand your skills, responding to developments of technology and engaging in relevant cultural conversations.

Define your practice. Own it

This is your year to develop your own identity within the industry. Your major project – half your total credits – is entirely self-directed. You choose the concept, the context, and the creative focus – whether that's editorial beauty, character work for screen, experimental hair design or something that crosses all of them, the brief is yours to write.

Where artistry meets the bigger picture

Collaboration with our other fashion courses means shared shoots, shared sets and shared creative ambition. You'll experience what it's like to work with photographers, stylists, and creative directors – picking up awareness and professional instincts that go well beyond your own specialism.

Research with purpose

Your research module is the engine behind your major project – helping you develop a critical position on beauty, identity, representation, or the theme that drives your practice. It’s the kind of thinking that will make your portfolio feel different and make you impossible to forget.

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Studio Practice (Product Design) (top-up) BA (Hons)

Location: Canterbury

Our Studio Practice top-up course in Product Design at UCA Canterbury will give you all the skills you need to progress to postgraduate study in the UK.

Build on existing qualifications

Ideal for international students and also suitable to UK students looking to build upon existing qualifications, he course is aligned with the final year of BA (Hons) Product Design, so you can progress to a Master's degree in a streamlined way.

The workshop next door

Our studio is right next to the 3D workshop, the Fabrication Lab, and specialist facilities including CNC, laser cutting, waterjet, 3D printing and traditional joinery. That proximity means you iterate constantly – a morning idea can be a physical prototype by lunch.

Your project, your direction

This year is built around your final project – a project that you define, research, develop and resolve. Whether you're designing consumer products, furniture, systems, industrial applications or speculative prototypes, you'll graduate with a portfolio that articulates a clear, personal design position.

Test, break, discover

The culture here is experimental. Students build their own 3D printers, cast in wax or pewter, solder circuits, hack VR headsets, and more. You'll develop a deep intuition that comes from relentless making – the ability to see solutions nobody else has thought of, because you've tried things nobody else has tried.

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Studio Practice (Visual Communication) (top-up) BA (Hons)

Location: Canterbury

One year to sharpen your voice, find your medium, our Studio Practice top-up course in Visual Communication at UCA Canterbury will give you the chance to gain all the skills you need to progress to postgraduate study and boost your knowledge and experience.

Build on existing qualifications

Ideal for international students and also suitable to UK students looking to build upon existing qualifications, this course is aligned with the final year of our BA (Hons) Visual Communication degree, so you can progress to a Master's degree in a streamlined way.

A major project on your terms

The major project is the centrepiece of your year. It’s not a traditional dissertation and you won’t be writing 10,000 words. You define the brief, the medium, and the audience – it's complete creative freedom with professional accountability. A publication, a documentary, a podcast, a series of posts – you can choose it, but be ready to defend your choice.

Career-ready by design

The Career Catalyst module is built to give you the technical skills and creative confidence to find and pursue the career you want. You'll develop your professional identity, build your portfolio, and plan your next move – whether that's employment, freelance practice, or further study.

Canterbury's creative ecosystem

You'll work alongside students at Canterbury, from architecture, fine art, body art, and product design – in a school where interdisciplinary collaboration happens naturally. With access to high-end digital print, risograph, screen printing, letterpress, and traditional bookmaking, you'll produce work with the craft and production values that sets your portfolio apart.

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Television Production BA (Hons)

Location: Maidstone Studios
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Learn television where television is made. Our BA (Hons) Television Production degree offers just that.

Real studio, real productions

Learn in real, internationally-famous facilities: Maidstone Studios, which hosts productions for the BBC, ITV, and global broadcasters. The equipment is always current because the studio's commercial clients demand it, so the tools you train on are the tools the industry is using right now.

Industry professionals on your side of the screen

Working professionals are embedded across every year of the course for extended masterclasses and hands-on workshops. You'll develop an original script and explore your directing skills with industry mentoring, as well as produce a studio show guided by specialists in a live multi-camera production.

Small groups, big opportunities

Students regularly work on commercial productions filming at the studios and build industry relationships that lead directly to graduate roles. A dedicated Work Placement and Production Coordinator supports every student in finding their route into TV.

Accredited by the industry that hires you

This course holds ScreenSkills Select accreditation – an industry-endorsed quality mark that identifies courses producing work-ready graduates. You'll also have the chance to graduate as a certified BAFTA albert Grad with sustainability training, and earn a ScreenSkills Production Safety Passport, valued across the UK production sector.

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Visual Communication BA (Hons)

Location: Canterbury
Integrated foundation year available
Optional professional work placement year available

Embrace your love of drawing and design. Break the boundaries of storytelling. Our Visual Communication degree  is where illustration, graphic design, animation, and photography converge. This is a hybrid course for a hybrid world – where creative careers demand fluency across disciplines.

One course. Many creative futures

You might arrive as an illustrator and discover you're a designer – or come in thinking of screen and falling in love with print. Our Visual Communication degree course is deliberately broad, allowing you to specialise while staying in touch with the disciplines around you. That breadth prepares you for the reality of creative careers – where freelancers need range, agencies want versatility, and the best ideas break boundaries.

Content first. Always

Every project begins with a question: what are you saying, and to who? You'll think carefully about what you're communicating, who's receiving it, and the responsibility that carries. Theory and practice are fully intertwined – your final research project can be undertaken in one of two formats: a written project, or a practice-led project with a practical outcome with a shorter accompanying text contextualising the project.

Make what machines can’t imagine

You'll work with letterpress, riso, screen printing and bookmaking alongside modern digital tools and platforms. Getting hands-on with physical processes – the weight of type, the precision of ink on paper – will give you a deeper understanding of craft that will distinguish your work.

Live briefs. Real recognition

Industry engagement runs through the course, from D&AD competition briefs to live projects with local and national partners. You’ll learn from a teaching staff of experienced and active designers, with opportunities to hear from big brands and famous names via guest lectures and studio visits.

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