Music BMus (Hons) – 2020 entry

We’re one of the UK’s leading universities for music, with our courses ranked 2nd by the Guardian University Guide 2020.

On our BMus Music course you’ll encounter a huge range of music and music-making, and gain an insight into how you might wish to develop as a musician. We have excellent performance, composition, recording, and learning facilities, where you’ll be able to discuss the latest ideas with our experienced staff, as well as leading visiting composers, performers and scholars.

We offer a highly stimulating environment, whether you are interested in performance, composition, musicology, music technology or the music industry.

A Professional Training placement provides you with the opportunity to develop your professional, academic and personal potential, equipping you to be adaptable, resilient, globally minded, confident, entrepreneurial and digitally savvy in the workplace. These qualities are widely recognised by employers and many of our students are offered employment on graduation by their placement provider.

The Professional Training placement year gives our students an insight into their subject and career potential, and early access to professional experience. It can be invaluable in developing work-based skills and helping them secure a graduate career.

You can find our graduates in almost every area of work within the cultural and creative industries. Our graduates over the last few years entered employment in roles such as:

Assistant Producer, Perfect Pitch
Activities and Development Officer, Haringey Music Service
Marketing Officer, English Folk Dance and Song Society
Studio Manager, Spitfire Audio
Concerts and Projects Manager, London Sinfonietta
Commercial Rights Administrator, Faber Music
Assistant Studio Runner, The Crypt Studio
Music Supervisor, PH Media.

Required subjects: Music. Applicants taking an A-level science subject with the Science Practical Endorsement are required to pass the practical element.

Please note: A-level General Studies and A-level Critical Thinking are not accepted.

GCSE or equivalent: English Language at Grade C(4) and Mathematics at Grade C (4) (or equivalent).