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Photography

  • BA (Hons)
  • 3 Years
  • Full-time
  • September 2026
  • Undergraduate
Peel Park Campus
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Course summary

By providing you with a solid foundation in photographic theory and practice, this course will offer you the opportunity to take risks, explore ideas and realise your creative potential. The course aims to create flexible, resourceful and creative photographers with well-developed transferable skills, that can be applied to a broad range of commercial, commerce and art based careers.

You will work with industry-standard equipment and studios to support you from image capture through to exhibition. You will learn to apply a range of practical contemporary photographic and digital skills in order to explore the creative and intellectual potential of existing, experimental and digital photographic techniques and their application within the creative arts and media industries.

Some of the career routes that photography graduates go on to include, archivists, assistants, art directors, curators, digital artists, exhibiting photographers, freelancers, picture researchers, printers, retouches, studio managers, teachers, videographers. You will also have the potential to move across into related careers in marketing, branding, technical support and PR.

You will:

  • Learn to develop your individual creative ability with the support of dedicated practitioners and tutors who have extensive experience in the field

  • Learn to explore a range of professional photographic specialisms

  • Learn your practice with an emphasis on hybrid, experimental and trans-media platforms

For further information please visit our website; https://www.salford.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/photography

Modules

Year 1

  • Imagined communities
  • Urban and Rural
  • Street and Studio
  • Photography and the Book
  • Establishing Frameworks
  • Exploring Creative Contexts

Year 2

  • Photography in Context
  • Exploring Possibilities
  • Constructing Worlds and Meanings
  • Opportunities and Industry
  • Developing Frameworks
  • Responding to Creative Contexts

Year 3

  • Towards Resolution
  • Resolution
  • Applying Frameworks
  • Independent Research Project
This course is subject to validation. You can still apply for this course while it is being approved.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Peel Park Campus

Study options

  • BA (Hons) • Full-time • 3 Years

Start dates

  • September 2026

Apply by
14 January

This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.

Application codes

Course code:
W640
Institution code:
S03
Campus name:
Peel Park Campus
Campus Code:
-
Points of Entry:
Year 1

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How to apply

Apply by
14 January

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
W640
Institution code:
S03
Campus name:
Peel Park Campus
Campus Code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

UCAS Tariff
104 - 112 points

To include an Art and Design subject.

A level

104 - 112 UCAS Points with a B/C grade in an Art and Design subject.
General Studies accepted.

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

In an Art and Design subject.

Access to HE Diploma

104 - 112 UCAS tariff points in an Art and Design subject.

Scottish Higher

104 - 112 UCAS tariff points in an Art and Design subject.

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
30 - 31 points

To include an Art and Design subject.

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

104 - 112 UCAS tariff points in an Art and Design subject.

GCSE/National 4/National 5

GCSE English Language at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent) is required. Maths at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent) is preferred but not essential.
You must fulfil our GCSE entry requirements in addition to the Level 3 qualification requirements.

T Level
M

To include an Art and Design subject.

Additional entry requirements

Portfolio

English language requirements

International applicants will be required to show a proficiency in English. An IELTS score of 6.0, with no element below 5.5, is proof of this.

Historical entry grades data

This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).

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Fees and funding

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