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Event Production

  • Bachelor of Science (with Honours)
  • 3 Years
  • Full-Time
  • September 2027
  • Undergraduate
City Campus
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Course summary

This BSc Event Production course, based in Nottingham, is for those wanting to forge an exciting career in the live event production industry.

You’ll work in a real-world live events venue, learning from our team of experts who are professionals in lighting design, live sound, broadcasting, live event planning, and live video installation and design, including LED video screen technology, and projection mapping pyrotechnics.

This is a heavily practical course, with a focus on gaining real-world experience, and underpinned by theory. You’ll learn about building lighting rigs and PA systems from day one as well as maintaining and repairing the equipment that you will be using on real world events.

Your tutors are all industry professionals still out there working in the industry whilst also being qualified lecturers – so you’re learning from people that live it! We set up cross-collaborations with other course disciplines such as Music Performance, Film Production, and Content Creation students.

Key features

  • Gain hands-on industry experience: while you study, with industry opportunities built into the course to ensure you graduate with the practical skills needed to make it in the industry.

  • Use industry- standard equipment: Learn how to use specialist tech and equipment including our 400-capacity live venue, Nexo PA systems and Avolites lighting technology.

  • Earn industry-recognised certifications: Advance your technical skills with certifications in Avolites Titan lighting control, Dante audio networking, and L-Acoustics system workflow. Validating your expertise and enhancing your employability in live events and production

  • Study in the heart of Nottingham: One of Europe’s top 25 student cities, and home to over 75,000 learners.

Employability

Your time at NTU doesn’t have to stop once you finish your undergraduate course. Choose to continue your studies on our postgraduate degrees that can help you further develop your skills and obtain the experience you need to get a head start in your career.

Typical job roles in industry might include:

  • Live sound engineer

  • Lighting designer/operator for live events

  • Production manager

  • Live broadcast engineer

  • Live video technician/operator.

All of the above may find you working in live music, theatre, festivals or corporate events in the UK or touring overseas.

Facilities

On this course you’ll study across various facilities located on our City Campus. You’ll get to learn your trade in facilities that operate public-facing events every week of the year.

In Metronome you’ll find some amazing facilities, jam-packed with recording studios, rehearsal rooms, performances spaces, and a 400-capacity venue. You will be using industry standard equipment, the kind of equipment you’re going to see the professionals using. That’s audio equipment from Allen & Heath, L’Acoustics, Digico, Martin Audio, Nexo, Shure and Audix. Lighting from Avolites, MA, Martin, Robe and Clay Paky.

Providing more event experience opportunities is Confetti X; a 14,000 sq ft complex kitted out with world-class facilities and technology for esports and other emerging technologies. It’s here where you’ll have the chance to work on esports tournaments and a range of corporate events.

Modules

Course Modules

Year One
Lighting Technology Fundamentals (20 credit points)
Sound Technology Fundamentals (20 credit points)
Event Operations Passport (20 credit points)
Sound Technology Operations (20 credit points)
Lighting Technology Operations (20 credit points)
Equipment, Maintenance & Repair (20 credit points)

Year Two
Live Event Industry Practice (40 credit points)
Co Lab: Research, Exploration and Risk-taking (20 credit points)
AV Data Networking (20 credit points)
Production Delivery (20 credit points)

Optional Module - Choose one of the following:
Podcast Production for Beginners (20 credit points)
Live Streaming and Broadcast Fundamentals (20 credit points)
Festival and Music Events Management (20 credit points)
Sound Design for Visual Media (20 credit points)
Digital Audio Music Production (20 credit points)
Journalism for the Creative Industries (20 credit points)

Optional Placement Year (Sandwich)
We have an option for all of our students to undertake a placement year and allow you to decide whether this is right for you once you have completed years 1 and 2 of your course. This time spent working in industry provides our students with crucial work experience, which is highly prized and much sought after by employers upon graduation.

* If you choose to take the sandwich route option, you will need to apply for this course by using the full-time UCAS code.

Final Year
Creative Technology Lab (20 credit points)
Industry Briefs (20 credit points)
Final Capstone Project: Preproduction (20 credit points)
Final Capstone Project (40 credit points)
Future Pathways (20 credit points)

https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/art-and-design/ug/bsc-hons-event-production?year=2027#module-information

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • City Campus

Study options

  • Bachelor of Science (with Honours) • Full-Time • 3 Years

Start dates

  • September 2027

Apply by
13 January 2027

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:
N823
Institution code:
N91
Campus name:
City Campus
Points of Entry:
Year 1

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How to apply

Apply by
13 January 2027

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:
N823
Institution code:
N91
Campus name:
City Campus

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Typical qualification requirements

A level

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)

T Level

We will consider T Levels for entry to this course, either as stand-alone qualifications or in conjunction with other Level 3 qualifications, in accordance with the specified course tariff points.

UCAS Tariff
104-112

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)

Access to HE Diploma

Pass your Access course with 60 credits overall with a minimum of 45 credits at level 3

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

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from your BTEC Level 3 National Diploma and up to two other qualifications.

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

DMM from a BTEC Extended Diploma

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

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from your BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate and up to three other qualifications (one of which must be A-Level equivalent).

A lower offer may be made based on a range of factors, including your background (such as where you live and the school or college you attended), your experiences and individual circumstances (you may have been in care, for example). This is called a contextual offer and we get data from UCAS to make these decisions. NTU offers a student experience like no other, and this approach helps us to find students who have the potential to succeed here, but may have faced barriers that can make it more difficult to access university.

We also consider equivalent qualifications and combinations. Please contact Nottingham Trent University Admissions team for further information.

Contextual admissions

Universities and colleges consider more than grades when assessing applications and may make offers based on a range of criteria. Learn more about contextual offers.

NTU makes contextual offers for this course to give everyone a fair chance to access their chosen degree.

Contextual offers are lower than our standard entry criteria or may be an unconditional offer for courses that require a portfolio. We also take individual circumstances into account when we receive results and may accept grades lower than our published criteria.

We use a range of data from UCAS to make our offers and more information on our approach is available at the link below.

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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).

It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

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.

Additional fee information

Tuition fees for 2027 entry are yet to be confirmed. As a guide and to enable you to plan your finances, the fees for Home undergraduate students for 2026 are £9790 .The current expectation is that the University may increase this for future and subsequent years of study in line with inflation and as specified by the Government.

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