BA (Hons) Acting at Arts University Bournemouth

Programme overview

BA (Hons) Acting is your introduction to the performance industry. You'll hone your skills to stage and screen, working collaboratively as a part of AUB Theatre Productions and taking on roles in professionally produced student films. We'll show you what it takes to turn natural talent into a sustainable career and we will support you to help make your ambitions become reality.

Faculty: Bournemouth Film School | Duration: 3 years full-time; 4 years full-time with placement year; 4 years full-time with integrated foundation year; 5 years full-time with integrated foundation year and placement year | Study mode: full-time (optional placement year) | Location: Poole, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Level 4: You'll share all units through first year with your peers on BA (Hons) Acting for Screen. Level 5: In second year, you'll continue to learn alongside BA (Hons) Acting for Screen for the first term. Level 6: Your final year enables you to extend the scope and depth of your exploration of the acting process, and test the working methods developed in Levels 4 and 5, with a range of creative challenges.

Career pathways

Graduate destinations include: Principal actor in shows such as EastEnders, Masters of the Air, A Thousand Blows…; Principal, leading and supporting roles in the West End including Spring Awakening…; Principal, leading and supporting roles in The Empress (Royal Shakespeare Company), Let…; Leading role in Thomas and Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie; Roles in feature films including Wrath of Man, The Batman, The Rise of the Krays and Fall….

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Application information

Entry requirements

Applicants should have Level 3 qualifications, which should normally include at least one creative subject. We're looking for between 104 and 120 UCAS Tariff points. Standard offers include: A Levels with a result of BBB (or equivalent results achieving 120 UCAS Tariff points); Recognised Foundation Diploma with a Pass; BTEC/OCR Extended Diploma at Distinction, Merit, Merit; T Level with a minimum grade of Merit; Scottish Highers – five passes at Grade C or above. This course doesn't require a portfolio as part of the application process.

Domestic applicants: GBP 10,050 a year (2027/28). Home undergraduate tuition fee per year; optional placement year fee is £2,010. Source

International applicants: GBP 19,950 a year (2027/28). International/EU tuition fee per year, fixed for all years; optional placement year fee is £2,010. Source

Duration: 3 years full-time; 4 years full-time with placement year; 4 years full-time with integrated foundati

Apply through the official page: https://aub.ac.uk/apply/undergraduate

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