Dance and Drama BA (Hons)
Kingston University London
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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**Reasons to choose Kingston**- You’ll perform regularly in public at the Rose Theatre, the International Youth Arts Festival and national fringe festivals. These projects will develop your project management skills.- Strong industry links within the performing arts, which embed employability and professionalism at the core of all modules.- Our RIBA award-winning Town House building has a performance studio theatre and six dance studios, all equipped to professional standards with fully sprung ...Read more


Reasons to choose Kingston

- You’ll perform regularly in public at the Rose Theatre, the International Youth Arts Festival and national fringe festivals. These projects will develop your project management skills.- Strong industry links within the performing arts, which embed employability and professionalism at the core of all modules.- Our RIBA award-winning Town House building has a performance studio theatre and six dance studios, all equipped to professional standards with fully sprung floors, mirrors and barres.- Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.


About this course

The BA Dance and Drama at Kingston is designed with a strong practical emphasis, and a focus on London's vibrant multicultural arts scene. It allows students to engage critically with a range of approaches to the performing body as it moves across the related fields of drama and dance. As well as becoming skilled practitioners, students develop an understanding of the ways drama and dance engage with and shape identity, bodies and culture in the global city.Drama at Kingston is a dynamic, challenging and supportive community, located in its own designated building, the Reg Bailey, which contains one large, fully-equipped, flexible black box studio, one smaller studio and a number of rehearsal rooms. The Dance studios are located in the Town House designed by award-winning Grafton Architects. It features three large dance studios, each equipped to professional standards with fully sprung floors, mirrors and barres. Students on the BA Dance and Drama will benefit from the use of both facilities.


Future Skills

Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability. As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge. At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.


Career opportunities

Many graduates pursue performing, directing, producing, arts journalism or teaching. Our alumni have joined renowned dance companies as performers or as administrators and project managers.

Key stats

WUSCA ranking:
WUSCA student ranking
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95/101
CUG Subject Ranking
CUG Subject Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
35th
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
88th
Dance
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 - 79 = 21% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
21%
Employment rate
Employment rate
The percentage of students in full-time work 6 months after finishing their course.
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
88%
Average salary
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Source: UNISTATS, 2019
Dance graduate salary at this uni
£17,000
UK Dance graduate salary
£17,000
Drama
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 - 95 = 5% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
5%
Employment rate
Employment rate
The percentage of students in full-time work 6 months after finishing their course.
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
75%
Average salary
Average salary
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
Drama graduate salary at this uni
£17,000
UK Drama graduate salary
£18,000
What students say
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Reeha
22 Oct 24

Best - everything staff is amazing , course is fun Worst - the days of commuting or teachers not explaining things well..Read more

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Andrew
28 Nov 23

The facilities are amazing for my course (ance and drama) everything is so modern and you are able to use it at any time and the staff are extremely helpful and very easy to..Read more

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A level

A level:

BBC - ABB Grades / Points required

UCAS Tariff:

112 - 128 Grades / Points required

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

DMM - DDM Grades / Points required

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M Grades / Points required

A-level: Dance / Drama and Theatre Studies / Performance Arts / English Literature or Language or similar grade B (40 points) is required.Where A-level does not include Dance or Performing Arts, other dance experience will be considered.General Studies not accepted.

Level 3 qualifications, including Dance, Performance Arts, Drama and Theatre Studies, English Language/Literature or a related subject.

Relevant Subject: Dance/ Performing Arts

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Popular A-level subjects

Drama

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

Drama
67%
English Literature
38%
Psychology
22%
Media Studies
19%
History
14%
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£9,250 per year

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£9,250 per year

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Wales

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£9,250 per year

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Kingston University London
Kingston University London , Kingston upon Thames

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Kingston University London
Yorkon Building Kingston University Kingston upon Thames London KT2 7LB United Kingdom
Nearest tube station: Wimbledon  1.6 miles away Nearest train station: Norbiton  0.9 miles away
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