All courses at UCA

Acting BA (Hons)

Collaborate with industry partners on an Acting degree that focuses on production and practical learning.

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Acting MA

Train with professionals, perform on stage and screen, and launch your career with our rigorous, practice-based Acting masters degree.

Animation BA (Hons)

Explore all forms of Animation using our incredible facilities and develop your individual style.

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Animation MA

Be a part of UCA’s rich animation legacy and join its illustrious ranks on our MA Animation degree.

Business and Management BA (Hons)

The business degree for people who think and work creatively.

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Ceramics & Glass BA (Hons)

Establish your own craft identity and explore the contextual background to your work.

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Ceramics MA

Hone your ceramics skills, gain expert insight and build valuable industry connections as you study in the heart of Farnham, a World Craft Town.

Children’s Book Illustration MA

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.

Comic & Concept Art BA (Hons)

Create worlds and characters for games and comics while gaining the skills to bring your characters and worlds to life.

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Computer Science BSc (Hons)

Based within a highly creative community, you’ll work with creators across different disciplines for a fresh perspective.

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Concept Art & IP Development MA

A practical degree in which you'll develop creative IPs, advance your concept art skills, and build the confidence to promote your ideas.

Design for Theatre & Screen BA (Hons)

From sets to props and costume, build new worlds for stage and screen.

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Digital Art BA (Hons)

Explore digital culture and creating art in response to it with impressive facilities and technology for you to experiment with.

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Digital Marketing & Social Media BA (Hons)

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.

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Film Production BA (Hons)

This is a course with one purpose: get you making films so you learn through making.

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Filmmaking MA

Refine your storytelling, use our cutting-edge facilities to enhance your technical skills, and carve out your place in the film industry.

Fine Art BA (Hons) - Farnham

You’ll test ideas and concepts through material exploration – you choose your direction; refine a discipline or experiment widely.

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Fine Art MA - Farnham

Challenge the boundaries and redefine what constitutes fine art as you learn from a community of professional artists, curators and theorists.

Games Arts BA (Hons)

Develop technical skills and connect them with your drawing skills to create pro-level games assets.

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Games Arts MA

Combine theory and practice as you develop high-quality projects, explore game-related AI and research future developments in the games industry.

Games Design BA (Hons)

Built around making games, not reading or writing about them. You'll work in cross-disciplinary teams with games artists and developers.

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Games Design MA

A Games Design degree that combines the latest creative practice and academic research, placing you at the cutting edge of the global games industry.

Games Development BSc (Hons)

The course takes you from foundational programming and games architecture through to advanced systems development and real platform deployment.

Glass MA

Learn from specialist designers and artists while working in high-quality, industry-standard facilities in the World Craft Town of Farnham.

Graphic Design BA (Hons)

Develop your own voice through experimentation and research and graduate as a truly unique practitioner.

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Graphic Design MA

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.

Human Computer Interaction MSc

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.

Illustration BA (Hons)

Experiment, play and be challenged to take risks with your work. This course is practice-based, with theory, context, and research all combined.

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Illustration MA

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.

Jewellery & Silversmithing BA (Hons)

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.

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Jewellery MA

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.

MPhil/PhD at UCA

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.

Music & Sound Production BA (Hons)

Produce music. Design sound. Launch your career on our BA (Hons) Music & Sound Production degree.

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Photography BA (Hons)

Take your existing skills and develop them into professional practice on our BA (Hons) Photography course.

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Photography MA

Speculate, experiment and add complexity to your projects, using our extensive facilities to help you realise your ideas.

Pre-sessional English Courses

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

This is a year of defining who you are as a designer, aligned with the final year of our BA (Hons) Graphic Design degree.

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

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.

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User Experience Design MA

Explore the creative potential of UX design through live briefs, industry engagement and your own research as you shape the future of digital experiences.