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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.
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.
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.
From sets to props and costume, build new worlds for stage and screen.
Explore digital culture and creating art in response to it with impressive facilities and technology for you to experiment with.
This is a course with one purpose: get you making films so you learn through making.
Refine your storytelling, use our cutting-edge facilities to enhance your technical skills, and carve out your place in the film industry.
You’ll test ideas and concepts through material exploration – you choose your direction; refine a discipline or experiment widely.
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.
Built around making games, not reading or writing about them. You'll work in cross-disciplinary teams with games artists and developers.
A Games Design degree that combines the latest creative practice and academic research, placing you at the cutting edge of the global games industry.
The course takes you from foundational programming and games architecture through to advanced systems development and real platform deployment.
Learn from specialist designers and artists while working in high-quality, industry-standard facilities in the World Craft Town of Farnham.
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.
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.
Produce music. Design sound. Launch your career on our BA (Hons) Music & Sound Production degree.
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.
This one-year top-up is for filmmakers who are ready to specialise, collaborate at a professional level, and leave with a graduate film on their showreel.
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.
This is a year of defining who you are as a designer, aligned with the final year of our BA (Hons) Graphic Design degree.
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.
Explore the creative potential of UX design through live briefs, industry engagement and your own research as you shape the future of digital experiences.