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

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Start date

SEP-25

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Duration

3 Years

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Qualification

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

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SEP-25

Duration

3 Years

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Course info

Our friendly studio-centred programme will help you to understand, make and participate in visual art and contemporary aesthetics. Study within a small, active cohort, while having access to and placements with a sweeping range of other fields of study – from artificial intelligence to zoology. Explore art-making through ceramics, digital fabrication, immersive technologies, installation, metal, painting and drawing, performance, printmaking, sculpture, video and photography, wood and writing.- ...Read more

Our friendly studio-centred programme will help you to understand, make and participate in visual art and contemporary aesthetics. Study within a small, active cohort, while having access to and placements with a sweeping range of other fields of study – from artificial intelligence to zoology. Explore art-making through ceramics, digital fabrication, immersive technologies, installation, metal, painting and drawing, performance, printmaking, sculpture, video and photography, wood and writing.-


Facilities

. You will have inductions in and access to a wide range of specialist workshop facilities to advance your artistic enquiry, including letterpress and printmaking, ceramics, woodworking, metal, video, photography, audio, immersive and augmented technologies, and digital fabrication processes like 3D printing.-


Studio culture

. Our main teaching and learning space is the studio and we place emphasis on creating a friendly, supportive, vibrant, creative, critical and reflective studio environment. You will work in dedicated studio spaces and specialist workshops through a mix of practical exercises, one-to-one and group tutorials, critiques, seminars and interactive lectures, artist talks, fieldwork, and field trip opportunities.-


Thinking through doing

. This is a practice-based programme, which means that critical enquiry is at the heart of making work. We encourage you to be exploratory and experimental, to think through making and to embrace uncertainty and not knowing. You will be making and showing work in the studio and out in the city through relationships with Plymouth's exciting artist communities.-


Interdisciplinary

. The University of Plymouth is a broad-based university, internationally recognised for its research into marine science, climate change, biomedical and health sciences and across the arts and humanities. Studio practice modules and the common challenges and dissertation modules offer you opportunities to work collaboratively with researchers and practitioners across the University and out into the city and region.-


Collaboration

. You will collaborate with partners through placements in organisations like KARST, The Box, the Arts Institute, the Marine Institute and the Sustainable Earth Institute, and you will exhibit work both on- and off-site throughout your degree.-


Degree show

. Showcase your final project in a faculty-wide exhibition alongside students from our 12 art and design degrees. The Degree Show is your chance to introduce friends and family, your new creative network and art community, prospective employers and the general public to your work.

Key stats

WUSCA ranking:
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70/101
CUG Subject Ranking
CUG Subject Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
28th
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
65th
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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 - 80 = 20% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
20%
Employment rate
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80%
Average salary
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Art graduate salary at this uni
£16,000
UK Art graduate salary
£16,000
What students say
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Junaid
17 Jan 25

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Steven
14 Feb 23

Great location and facilities..Read more

Modules

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Entry requirements

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A level

A level:

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Scottish Higher:

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Scottish Advanced Higher:

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UCAS Tariff:

96 - 144 Grades / Points required

Access to HE Diploma:

Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.

Extended Project:

Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme:

26 - 36 Grades / Points required

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

H2,H2,H3,H3,H3 Grades / Points required

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

Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.

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

DD - D*D* Grades / Points required

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

Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.

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

MMM - DDD Grades / Points required

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

Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.

T Level:

Pass (C and above) - D Grades / Points required

Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015):

Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.

96-144 tariff points, from a minimum of 2 A Levels

In combination with Advanced Highers

96-144 tariff points, including two Advanced HighersEnglish and Maths accepted within as GCSE equivalent

Including a minimum of 2 A Levels

Pass a named Access to HE Diploma (e.g. Preferably Art & Design, Humanities or Combined), with at least 33 credits at Merit and/or Distinction.

Considered in combination

English and Mathematics accepted within as GCSE equivalent

96-144 UCAS tariff points. English and Maths accepted within as GCSE equivalent

Considered in combination

Any subject considered. Can be considered in combination.

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In any subject

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Preference on Digital Production, Design and Development, but other subjects may be considered on an individual basis.

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University of Plymouth
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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University of Plymouth
Drake Circus Plymouth PL4 8AA United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Plymouth  0.2 miles away

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