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Drama

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2026-2027
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Course summary

Explore your creative identity with our Drama degree.

  • Pursue your passions. Choose to specialise, broaden your skills-base or combine Drama with another subject you love.

  • Experiment, reflect and innovate. Learn by making, producing, performing, directing and collaborating.

  • Graduate with a host of skills valued in a range of industries, from theatre to media to education.

Studying Drama at Bath Spa gives you the performance, critical and creative skills you need to launch yourself into a variety of exciting careers.

You'll explore your creative identity through core and optional modules in areas of practice such as play production, performing, writing and directing, and topics such as Shakespeare, musical theatre, physical theatre, applied theatre and media and performance.

Popular career paths for graduates of this programme include working in theatre, acting, directing, education, theatre production, arts administration, and arts therapies; you could also choose to progress to further study, for example in Directing, Creative Producing, Creative Writing and Scriptwriting.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Main Site

Study options

  • BA (Hons) • Full-time • 3 Years

Start dates

  • 14/09/2026

Application codes

Course code:
W400
Institution code:
B20

Bath Spa University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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Application codes

Course code:
W400
Institution code:
B20

Historical entry grades data BETA

This section shows the range of grades students (with UK A-Levels or Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diplomas) who received offers were previously accepted with (learn more). It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place. Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.

Data from:
This course and 15 other drama courses
Date range:
2022-2024

Grades held by accepted students

For Bath Spa University, the top and bottom 5% of student grades have been removed from these calculations. This change helps to remove any extraordinary circumstances that could impact the data. Learn more here .
BBC Most common
  1. A*AA
  2. Highest grades
  3. CDD
  4. Lowest grades

Offer rate for UK school & college leavers

37% Students aged 17/18 who applied to this course were offered a place.

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Student Outcomes

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79 Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)

89 Go onto work and study

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