Music Technology 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 use our Visconti Studio, created in partnership with record producer Tony Visconti. It has a 300m2 live room plus rare and vintage recording equipment.- You can participate in local musical initiatives, such as the Kingston Singers, our Stylophone Orchestra or Acid Grass Records, our in-house record label and artist collective.- You’ll benefit from central London’s vibrant and multicultural music scene.- Our commitment to high quality teaching has been ...Read more


Reasons to choose Kingston

- You’ll use our Visconti Studio, created in partnership with record producer Tony Visconti. It has a 300m2 live room plus rare and vintage recording equipment.- You can participate in local musical initiatives, such as the Kingston Singers, our Stylophone Orchestra or Acid Grass Records, our in-house record label and artist collective.- You’ll benefit from central London’s vibrant and multicultural music scene.- 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

Music technology is a diverse field that requires practitioners to be multi-skilled, adaptable and adept at collaboration across different disciplines and media. Developments in music technology signal trends and evolutions in music practices, creation and consumption. Our core philosophy is to develop musical, academic and technical skills through the exploration, application and support of creative practice.This course is aimed at aspiring sound engineers, record producers, sound designers, live sound mixers, contemporary composer/producers and performers who wish to develop their skills using a hands-on approach to learning and research across digital and analogue sound creation, recording and production techniques, sequencing, synthesis and programming, spatial studies, context, history and criticism.Develop specialist skills in areas such as audio post-production for media, broadcasting, performing with technology, live sound reinforcement, applications of music technology in education, and analogue record production including tape ops and vintage equipment maintenance.Kingston's extensive facilities include recording studios, rehearsal rooms, Pro Tools, Ableton and Logic-based MIDI/editing suites, synth labs, and our analogue/hybrid Visconti Studio.


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

Graduates work in roles such as music producer, sound engineer, live sound manager, sound designer, event manager, music programmer, post-production sound editor, foley artist and sound recordist, music teacher, composer, and music manager.

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WUSCA ranking:
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95/101
CUG Subject Ranking
CUG Subject Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
62nd
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
88th
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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%
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80%
Average salary
Average salary
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
Music graduate salary at this uni
£18,000
UK Music graduate salary
£19,000
What students say
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Joseph
23 Feb 24

Best: My facilities back onto a medium sized forrest. Having all this greenery near a London uni is beautiful. Worst: The end of year panic as all my assignments are due in 6..Read more

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A level

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BBC - ABB Grades / Points required

UCAS Tariff:

112 - 128 Grades / Points required

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

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£9,250 per year

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Scotland

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£9,250 per year

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23 Feb 24
Music Technology BA (Hons)
Best: My facilities back onto a medium sized forrest. Having all this greenery near a London uni is beautiful. Worst: The end of year panic as all my assignments are due in 6...
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Kingston University London
Kingston University London , Kingston upon Thames

Kingston University is an internationally renowned university and just one of 26 institutions nationally to hold Gold ratings in all...

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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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