Bachelor of Music (Honours) Composition BMus (Hons)
Royal Academy of Music, University of London
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Bachelor of Music (with Honours) - BMus (Hon)

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SEP-25

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4 Years

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Bachelor of Music (with Honours) - BMus (Hon)

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Whether your interest lies in concert music, media, TV and film music, composing for staged productions or electronic music, you can study on the Academy’s undergraduate composition course. Composition at the Academy has an international reputation centred on intensive project-based and highly collaborative degree programmes. Our cutting-edge courses are taught by distinguished and prominent composers, and they reflect the realities and challenges for today’s music creator. Academy composers ...Read more

Whether your interest lies in concert music, media, TV and film music, composing for staged productions or electronic music, you can study on the Academy’s undergraduate composition course. Composition at the Academy has an international reputation centred on intensive project-based and highly collaborative degree programmes. Our cutting-edge courses are taught by distinguished and prominent composers, and they reflect the realities and challenges for today’s music creator. Academy composers have a wide range of opportunities for performance and recording, and are fully prepared to work in a variety of creative contexts.Our composition professors are dedicated teachers and active composers with professional musical careers of all kinds. Collectively, they have a wide range of industry knowledge and insight into all aspects of the profession. This course ensures a strong foundation in compositional techniques which, over four years of study, can be focused to support your individual interests and career ambitions. As a composer in the Academy, you are given unrivalled opportunities to have your music played and recorded in numerous contexts – and to develop your individual compositional style and musical personality within our highly collaborative environment. The deadline for the Academy to receive both your UCAS Conservatoires application and also your portfolio is


2 October

, 18:00 UK time. http://www.ram.ac.uk/departments/composition

Key stats

CUG Subject Ranking
CUG Subject Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
17th
Music
Drop-out rate
Drop-out rate
The percentage of students who didn't finish the course.
Calculated by 100% - (% of students continuing course + % of students completed course)
100 - 100 = 0% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
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95%

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Entry requirements

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A level

A level:

EE Grades / Points required

Scottish Higher:

DDD Grades / Points required

Access to HE Diploma:

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Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal:

P3,P3 Grades / Points required

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme:

24 Grades / Points required

Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017):

H3,H5,H5,H5,H5 Grades / Points required

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

PP Grades / Points required

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

PPP Grades / Points required

T Level:

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Passes in two GCE Advanced-level (A2) examinations.

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A Pass for this diploma is accepted.

Passes in two Pre-U certificate examinations.

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Popular A-level subjects

Music

Top 5 A-levels taken by students who study this subject at uni.

Music
96%
English Literature
25%
Mathematics
23%
History
17%
Geography
14%
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Tuition fees

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£9,535 per year

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Uni info

Royal Academy of Music, University of London
Marylebone Road London Camden NW1 5HT United Kingdom
Nearest tube station: Baker Street  0.2 miles away Nearest train station: London Marylebone  0.3 miles away
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