Arts University Bournemouth
The Arts University Bournemouth is located in one of the UK's most beautiful award-winning natural locations. Positioned neighbouring stunning gardens, beaches, forest and a Jurassic coastline classified by UNESCO as a world heritage site, the university is nestled within a small pocket of paradise. The university is the UK's top specialist art and design institution and in the Top 5 of all UK universities for Teaching Quality and Student Experience (The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021). Students at the Arts University Bournemouth also benefit from the city's fast-growing creative and digital hub, one of the largest in Europe, supporting over 7,500 digital jobs and contributing over £340 million to the UK economy. The richly artistic community here helps students to prosper, both while studying and after graduation. With exceptional resources and a teaching strategy that promotes students becoming their best selves, this is a community that prospers. What is the Arts University Bournemouth acceptance rate for International Students? The Arts University Bournemouth acceptance rate is 51%. Student Life Fine arts, design, media, and performance studios. The MoDiP (Museum of Design in Plastics) within the university houses a unique collection of design-related artefacts. Computer labs equipped with relevant software for digital arts and design projects. The Gallery Print room Bournemouth film school Student Life The Arts University Bournemouth campus is architecturally stunning, expansive and has a creative buzz. The many student clubs provide opportunities to meet like-minded students, such as Animation, Photography, Zine-making, and more! Student advisers are on-hand to support students throughout campus life in the diverse landscape.
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BSc (Hons) Fashion Management and Strategy
Fashion design covers the making of garments and collections: research and concept development, drawing, pattern cutting, fabric choice and construction. It is about moving an idea from sketch to finished piece while keeping the person who will wear it in mind. Graduates often work in design studios, product development, styling, buying and their own labels.
BA (Hons) Media, Marketing and Advertising
Media studies and communication analyse how messages are produced, circulated and understood across journalism, broadcasting, advertising, film and digital platforms. Students examine audiences, institutions and the making of meaning, alongside practical production skills. Graduates frequently work in content creation, public relations, marketing communication, media planning, research and cultural organisations.
BA (Hons) Make-up, Hair and Prosthetics
Design is about shaping objects, images, spaces and experiences so they work well for the people who use them. Studio practice, sketching, prototyping and critique sit alongside research into users, materials and context. Graduates often work in studios and agencies, in-house creative teams, or independently across many industries.
BA (Hons) Games Narrative
Game design is about the rules, systems and feedback that make play engaging: what the player can do, what pushes back, and how difficulty and story unfold. Prototyping and testing with real players drive the work, alongside level design and narrative. Graduates often work in game studios, interactive media and simulation.
BA (Hons) Content Creation with Marketing
Marketing studies how organisations understand customers and bring products and services to them, spanning research, branding, pricing, distribution, advertising and digital channels. The work blends creative thinking with data about behaviour. Graduates often work in brand and product management, digital marketing, market research, advertising, and sales or communications.
BA (Hons) Business of Games
Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.
BA/BSc (Hons) Arts, Media and Creative Industries Management
Arts administration deals with the running of cultural organisations: budgets, fundraising, programming, marketing, audiences and staff. Students learn management and finance while also thinking about artistic value and public access. Graduates often work in theatres, galleries, museums, festivals, orchestras, cultural policy and creative agencies.
MArch Master of Architecture (Part 2 ARB/RIBA)
Architecture and design concern the shaping of buildings, interiors and objects, balancing function, structure, cost and the way people actually live and move. Studio projects, drawing, modelling and critique sit alongside history, theory and technical study. Graduates often work in architectural and design practices, planning and development, visualisation and construction-related roles.
MA Fine Art
Fine arts centres on making work — painting, drawing, sculpture, print and other media — and on developing a personal visual language through sustained studio practice. Critique, art history and exhibition skills shape how artists think about their own output. Graduates often become practising artists, or work in galleries, teaching and the creative industries.
FdA Music and Sound Production
Sound recording brings together technical craft and musical judgement: microphone technique, signal flow, acoustics, editing, mixing and mastering in the studio and on location. Students spend much of their time in practical sessions producing finished audio. Graduates work in studios, live sound, broadcast, podcasting, post-production and audio for games and film.
FdA 3D Animation and Visualisation for Film and Games
Animation creates movement image by image, whether drawn by hand, modelled digitally or built from puppets and objects. It combines timing, weight and performance with storytelling, character design and the software pipelines used in production. Graduates often work in animation and visual effects studios, games, advertising and motion graphics.
BA (Hons) Photography
Photography combines visual storytelling with the technical craft of light, lenses and post-production. Students develop a personal body of work while learning composition, editing workflows and how images carry meaning for different audiences. Graduates often work in commercial, editorial, documentary or fine-art photography, and in wider visual content roles.
BA (Hons) Modelmaking
Media studies and communication analyse how messages are produced, circulated and understood across journalism, broadcasting, advertising, film and digital platforms. Students examine audiences, institutions and the making of meaning, alongside practical production skills. Graduates frequently work in content creation, public relations, marketing communication, media planning, research and cultural organisations.
BA (Hons) Make-Up for Media and Performance
Media studies and communication analyse how messages are produced, circulated and understood across journalism, broadcasting, advertising, film and digital platforms. Students examine audiences, institutions and the making of meaning, alongside practical production skills. Graduates frequently work in content creation, public relations, marketing communication, media planning, research and cultural organisations.
BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design
Interior design shapes the inside of buildings — light, materials, circulation, furniture and atmosphere — so that spaces work for the people who use them. Students develop drawing, modelling and specification skills alongside an understanding of construction, accessibility and cost. Graduates often work in design studios, architecture practices, retail, hospitality and exhibition design.
BA (Hons) Illustration
Sculpture works with physical form and material: carving, casting, welding, modelling, installation and found objects. Students develop technical skill in a workshop setting alongside an understanding of space, scale, site and the history of made things. Graduates often sustain their own practice, or work in fabrication, public art, teaching and galleries.
BA (Hons) Graphic Design
Design is about shaping objects, images, spaces and experiences so they work well for the people who use them. Studio practice, sketching, prototyping and critique sit alongside research into users, materials and context. Graduates often work in studios and agencies, in-house creative teams, or independently across many industries.
BA (Hons) Games Art and Design
Game design is about the rules, systems and feedback that make play engaging: what the player can do, what pushes back, and how difficulty and story unfold. Prototyping and testing with real players drive the work, alongside level design and narrative. Graduates often work in game studios, interactive media and simulation.
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Fine arts centres on making work — painting, drawing, sculpture, print and other media — and on developing a personal visual language through sustained studio practice. Critique, art history and exhibition skills shape how artists think about their own output. Graduates often become practising artists, or work in galleries, teaching and the creative industries.
BA (Hons) Film Production
Media studies and communication analyse how messages are produced, circulated and understood across journalism, broadcasting, advertising, film and digital platforms. Students examine audiences, institutions and the making of meaning, alongside practical production skills. Graduates frequently work in content creation, public relations, marketing communication, media planning, research and cultural organisations.
BA (Hons) Fashion
Fashion design covers the making of garments and collections: research and concept development, drawing, pattern cutting, fabric choice and construction. It is about moving an idea from sketch to finished piece while keeping the person who will wear it in mind. Graduates often work in design studios, product development, styling, buying and their own labels.
BA (Hons) Creative Writing
Writing focuses on the craft of putting language to work — structure, voice, rhythm and revision — across forms such as fiction, essays, scripts and professional communication. Workshops, close reading and feedback on drafts are common. Graduates often move into publishing, editing, content and communications, teaching, or their own writing projects.
BA (Hons) Creative Direction
Directing is the craft of shaping a performance or film: interpreting a script, guiding actors, and coordinating design, camera or stage elements into a coherent whole. Students work through rehearsal, staging, visual storytelling and collaboration with creative teams. Graduates often work in theatre, in film and television production, and in freelance creative roles.
BA (Hons) Costume
Fibres, yarns and finished cloth are the material of textiles: weaving, knitting, printing, dyeing and finishing, studied as craft and as technical subject. Students build hands-on skill alongside an understanding of fibre properties, production and sustainability. Graduates often work in fashion, interiors, manufacturing, materials development or studio practice.
BA (Hons) Communication Design and Strategy with Placement Year
Media studies and communication analyse how messages are produced, circulated and understood across journalism, broadcasting, advertising, film and digital platforms. Students examine audiences, institutions and the making of meaning, alongside practical production skills. Graduates frequently work in content creation, public relations, marketing communication, media planning, research and cultural organisations.
BA (Hons) Communication Design and Strategy
Media studies and communication analyse how messages are produced, circulated and understood across journalism, broadcasting, advertising, film and digital platforms. Students examine audiences, institutions and the making of meaning, alongside practical production skills. Graduates frequently work in content creation, public relations, marketing communication, media planning, research and cultural organisations.
BA (Hons) Commercial Photography
Photography combines visual storytelling with the technical craft of light, lenses and post-production. Students develop a personal body of work while learning composition, editing workflows and how images carry meaning for different audiences. Graduates often work in commercial, editorial, documentary or fine-art photography, and in wider visual content roles.
BA (Hons) Architecture (Part 1 ARB/RIBA)
Architecture and design concern the shaping of buildings, interiors and objects, balancing function, structure, cost and the way people actually live and move. Studio projects, drawing, modelling and critique sit alongside history, theory and technical study. Graduates often work in architectural and design practices, planning and development, visualisation and construction-related roles.
BA (Hons) Animation Production
Animation creates movement image by image, whether drawn by hand, modelled digitally or built from puppets and objects. It combines timing, weight and performance with storytelling, character design and the software pipelines used in production. Graduates often work in animation and visual effects studios, games, advertising and motion graphics.
BA (Hons) Acting
Training in performance is what acting is: voice, movement, text analysis, improvisation and the discipline of rehearsal. The work is practical — building characters, rehearsing, and responding to other performers and to direction. Graduates often work in theatre, screen, voice work, teaching and roles across the wider performing arts.
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