This highly practical course enables you to advance and develop your skills as a creative designer for performance.
By working on our extensive programme of public performances, you become a versatile practitioner, who feels equally at home designing for theatre, film and TV, dance, music and site-specific performances. Our approach allows you to create your own pathway and curate a compelling CV and portfolio that matches your ambitions.
Number of places available each year: 20
/ YEAR ONE:
Design & Making Skills /
Design & Fabrication /
The Production Process /
Design from Text /
Research Project 1
// YEAR TWO:
Making and Design Practice A (Option) /
Making and Design Practice B (Option) /
Hypothetical Design Project /
The Assistant Designer /
Industry Placement /
Research Project 2
/// YEAR THREE:
The Designer /
Portfolio and Professional Career /
Research Informed Practice
You are continually assessed on your practical work and contribution to projects – both on your working process and your realised design. There is written work in the form of evaluations of your practical work and a final research project at the end of your third year when you explore an area of your choice.
Practical/written work ratio
80% practical work / 20% written assignments
To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:
This course is not accepting applications at this time. Please contact the provider to find out more.
This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
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The following entry points are available for this course:
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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Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.
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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
LIPA will charge the maximum approved tuition fee per year. The tuition fee shown above for home students is for 2026 entry and is still subject to parliamentary procedure. In England and Wales, tuition fees for home undergraduate students are subject to the government fee cap, which the government has announced will be £9,790 for the 2026/27 academic year and £10,050 for the 2027/28 academic year (subject to parliamentary approval). Maximum tuition fee levels for the 2028/29 academic year and beyond have not yet been set. Fees may change in line with inflation and/or any adjustments to the government fee cap. These changes may affect fee levels for continuing students for subsequent years of study. We will communicate fees to you as soon as we can in advance of the relevant academic year.
Email:h.ashton@lipa.ac.uk
Phone:0151 330 3000
Email:admissions@lipa.ac.uk
Phone:0151 330 3000
Mount Street
Liverpool
L1 9HF
At Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
