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Acting (Taught)
MA · 1 Years · Full-time · 14/09/2026 · PostgraduateFarnham
Course summary
Train with professionals, perform on stage and screen, and launch your career with our MA Acting course at UCA’s School of Creative and Cultural Industries in Farnham, Surrey.
Our MA Acting degree offers a rigorous, practice-based training for experienced actors seeking to refine and further develop their craft. You will advance your practice through Acting Skills, strengthening your technique, presence, and emotional range.
In the Classical & Contemporary Theatre unit, you will explore diverse styles, texts, and performance contexts, enhancing versatility and critical understanding and the Screen Acting unit continues the development of your on-camera performance, technical awareness, and adaptability across digital formats.
The Practice as Research for Digital Performance unit encourages innovative exploration of performance in virtual, multimedia, and interactive environments. The culmination of the course is Final Major Project & Professional Practice, in which you will synthesise learning into a delf-directed performance or research-led piece, supported by industry-facing preparation.
This intensive, creatively rich year will equip you with the artistic vision, technical skill, and professional resilience required to thrive in today’s evolving performance landscape across stage, screen, audio, and digital platforms.
Entry requirements
A good honours degree or equivalent qualification in a related discipline. Relevant work experience, demonstrating your ability to study at postgraduate level. For this course we will need to see a online audition for review. Further information will be provided once you have applied. Consideration will also be given to applicants who can make a strong case for admission in relation to a particular project and can demonstrate their potential to satisfactorily complete the course.
English language requirements
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | 6.5 | Listening 5.5, Reading 5.5, Speaking 5.5, Writing 5.5 |
We require evidence of your English language ability to meet the requirements for your course.
If you're a Home student and studied in the UK, we require GCSE English at a minimum grade C/4 (or Functional Skills English/Key Skills Communication Level 2).
If you’re an EU student and studied a European qualification, we may accept the English Language score from your main qualification - please review your country from the list on our website to see whether we will accept it: https://www.uca.ac.uk/international-study/equivalent-qualifications/ If your qualification is not on this list, we accept the following English language qualifications: IELTS (overall score 6.0), TOEFL ibt (overall score 88), PEARSON PTE Academic (overall 55), Cambridge Proficiency Exam (overall score 169), Cambridge Advanced Exam (overall score 169).
If you need a Tier 4 student visa to study in the UK, you will need to take an IELTS test, and achieve an overall score of 6.0 and a minimum score of 5.5 for each element (Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing).
For more information on English Language Requirements, please visit our website: https://www.uca.ac.uk/International-study/language-requirements-support/
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
Postgraduate Fees for 26/27 are still to be confirmed. Details will appear here shortly.
For prior fees, please refer to https://www.uca.ac.uk/study-at-uca/fees-finance/postgraduate/
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