Find your visual voice and sharpen your skills in one intensive year.
This one-year top-up is for aspiring illustrators who want to sharpen their identity, test their work in the real world, and graduate with a full honours degree. You’ll train in analogue and digital formats, with industry-standard kit, alongside animators, filmmakers, and fine artists.
You'll produce an ambitious, self-directed major project, develop practice-led creative research, and prepare for professional life through portfolio reviews, live briefs, and career planning. You’ll be studio-based for the whole year, because we believe the best learning comes from doing. You'll be surrounded by fellow creatives on a single, contained campus with world-class workshops and the space to discover what your work is really about.
This course is available in Clearing. If you have submitted an application, you can add this course. If you haven’t sent us an application yet, you can do this until 24th September 2026.
This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.
University for the Creative 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:
For further information on how to apply to UCA: https://www.uca.ac.uk/study-at-uca/applying-to-uca/
Find out more about qualification requirements for this course.
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
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| IELTS (Academic) | 6 | Listening 5.5, Reading 5.5, Speaking 5.5, Writing 5.5 |
For more information on English Language Requirements, please visit our website:https://www.uca.ac.uk/International-study/language-requirements-support/
UCA is a place for creativity, ingenuity, and personality. We always consider the strength of an applicant's portfolio / audition as well as their grades and may make offers lower than our standard entry criteria to applicants with strong portfolios. We also make lower offers to students with mitigating circumstances or who have faced difficulties.
You shouldn’t be deterred from applying if your predicted grades are lower than the range we’ve accepted in the past.
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.
Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.
We are unable to show previous accepted grades for this course. This could be because the course is new, it's a postgraduate course, there isn't enough historical data, or the provider has opted out of sharing their entry grades data for this course - learn more.
This report uses your grades to show how students with similar results have done when applying to this course in the past. Sometimes, there isn’t data for every possible set of grades. When that happens, universities and colleges occasionally fill in the gaps for sets of grades that are typically accepted.
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* This is a provisional fee and subject to change.
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.
Fees stated are based on 25/26 academic intake and should be used as guidance. Confirmed fees for 26/27 will be published shortly.
If you are classified as a Home student and qualify for the government-regulated undergraduate tuition fee, you will be charged a single tuition fee for each academic year. Our policy is to charge the maximum regulated fee. To reflect increased costs of delivery and maintain a high-quality student experience, we will therefore increase fees in line with any uplift determined by the UK Government by law or government policy in the second and subsequent years of your course. Such increases are usually linked to inflation and determined using RPIX (the Retail Price Index excluding mortgage interest payments).
For all other students, your tuition fees may increase in the second and subsequent years of your course. Any increase in fees will be in line with inflation as measured by the RPIX but in any event by not more than 5%.
We will notify you of any fee increase by no later than July before the start of the next academic year.
For further information on fees, please go to: https://www.uca.ac.uk/study-at-uca/fees-finance/undergraduate/
At UCA we have a number of scholarships and fee discounts available to assist you with the cost of your studies.
Further details can be found via our Scholarships page: https://www.uca.ac.uk/study-at-uca/scholarships/
and our Financial Support page: https://www.uca.ac.uk/study-at-uca/fees-finance/financial-support/
Email:clearing@uca.ac.uk
Phone:+44 (0)1252 918240
Monday - Friday: 09:30 - 17:00 (GMT)
Thursday 13th August: 08:00 - 20:00 (GMT)
Friday 14th August: 08:00 - 20:00 (GMT)
Saturday 15th August 10:00 - 16:00 (GMT)
Email:enquiries@uca.ac.uk
Phone:01252 918291
Falkner Road
Farnham
GU9 7DS
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