Fine Art - BA (Hons)
University of Plymouth
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Plymouth Campus

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SEP-26

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3 Years

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Our friendly studio-centred programme will support you to understand and participate in the expanded forms of making, thinking and writing that reflect art practice today. Be guided by practising artists, curators, producers and writers to explore concepts, contexts, techniques, and technologies across sculpture, installation, performance, video and digital media, painting and drawing.BA (Hons) Fine Art will equip you with a diverse range of transferable skills, including independent study, ...Read more

Our friendly studio-centred programme will support you to understand and participate in the expanded forms of making, thinking and writing that reflect art practice today. Be guided by practising artists, curators, producers and writers to explore concepts, contexts, techniques, and technologies across sculpture, installation, performance, video and digital media, painting and drawing.BA (Hons) Fine Art will equip you with a diverse range of transferable skills, including independent study, goal setting, workload and deadline management, critical and professional writing, problem-solving, spatial planning, resource management, complex project management and collaboration – skills that are key to contemporary, globalised, flexible working in many different sectors. You'll also graduate with a body of self-directed art practice that demonstrates critical, theoretical and contextual understandings of contemporary fine art.Our mix of seminars and tutorials, placements and residencies, workshops and studio practice and your development of independent, collaborative and social practices will ready you to launch your professional practice, find employment in the cultural sector or act as a catalyst for further post-graduate study.

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WUSCA ranking:
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50/279
CUG Subject Ranking
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38th
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Source: Complete University Guide 2026
75th
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UCAS Tariff:

104 Grades / Points required

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International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme:

26 Grades / Points required

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

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

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T Level:

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£17,100 per year

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Accomodation- Room type – standard en suite (288): Cost: 199 per week. Total annual rent: 8,159 (for a 41-week licence).

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Fine Art - BA (Hons)
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University of Plymouth , Plymouth

The University of Plymouth is a modern campus university ideally placed in the centre of Britain’s Ocean City, Plymouth, located on...

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