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Music with Year Abroad BA (Hons)

UK

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What will I learn?

Make the music you're passionate about in a vibrant, cultural city with a great music scene. From the middle ages to global hip hop, our music degree provides a broad musical education across many forms and styles. Our students sing opera and music theatre, play funk guitar and classical oboe. And our Turner Sims concert hall supports the most extensive series of professional concerts and workshops of any UK university.No matter what your musical background, you'll get involved in performance and composition workshops, ensemble and conducting, and performance projects with world-renowned performers and recording artists. You'll learn different approaches to musical topics and experience advanced studio techniques, jazz theory and orchestration. Your chance to study music abroad will give you international performance experience and build your global network. Our year aboard destinations include cities such as Paris, Madrid, Venice, Hong Kong and Norway.Our digital humanities facilities will allow you to study and research through cutting-edge technology, such as virtual reality, 3D scanners and printers, and a 360 degree fully immersive audio-visual centre.*Course subject to programme review

Which department am I in?

Music

Study options

Full Time (4 Years)

Tuition fees
£22,300.00 (24,29,723) per year
£22300 Per year

This is a fixed fee

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please

Start date

September 2025

Venue

Main Site - Highfield Campus

Highfield,

Southampton,

Hampshire,

SO17 1BJ, SOUTHERN ENGLAND, England

Entry requirements

For students from Hong Kong

Typical Offer: ABB to BBB including Music and Grade 8 Music Practical or demonstrated equivalent standard*If you are taking an EPQ in addition to 3 A levels, you will receive the following offer in addition to the standard A level offer:BBB including Music and grade A in the EPQ, and Grade 8 Music Practical or demonstrated equivalent standard*We are committed to ensuring that all students with the potential to succeed, regardless of their background, are encouraged to apply to study with us. The additional information gained through contextual data allows us to recognise a student?s potential to succeed in the context of their background and experience.Students who are highlighted in this way will be made an offer which is lower than the typical offer for that programme, as follows:BBC including Music and Grade 8 Music Practical or demonstrated equivalent standard* Offers typically exclude General Studies and Critical Thinking. *Equivalence to grade 8 is ascertained via audition. This can be done in person or by sending a video. We welcome students onto our programmes who are not at this level if their interests focus on other areas, such as composition, music technology and/or music history and ethnomusicology.We do not accept Music Technology in lieu of a Music Level 3 qualification (A level, BTEC etc). We can accept a pass in Grade 6 Music Theory where Music is not studied as a Level 3 qualification.We recognise Music practical and theory exams from ABRSM, Trinity, Rockschool and LCM.Specific offer is ascertained at interview.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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