Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre) course offers intensive studio-based actor training that produces industry-ready, professional performers with a strong sense of individual expression.

VCA Music Theatre has a strong connection to Melbourne’s thriving music theatre profession. Students participate in daily studio-based training with working artists, and in industry master classes with international guest teachers. We take a highly personalised approach to our training, supporting your unique qualities while developing your artistic and technical capacity.

The program offers extensive practical training in music theatre’s three principal disciplines – singing, acting and dancing – with specialist staff in each area. A fourth core subject explores the practice of these skills in combination for music theatre performance.

Breadth subjects at each year level enable you to explore cross disciplinary studies from the wider University community, accessing multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills that will build on existing knowledge or present opportunities for you to investigate and develop new interests.

You will

• Develop technical skills and knowledge required in acting, singing, and dancing for professional music theatre and the performing arts fields
• Learn to implement style and character through the performer's "instrument of expression" to the demands of text and choreography
• Work collaboratively within a creative process to create professional performance outcomes
• Contribute to musical theatre productions that create pathways to prospective employment and professional networks within the music theatre industry.

Future pathways

Upon completion of the course, you may choose to apply for a fourth-year Honours degree. An honours year provides an intensive mode of study allowing you to master your specialisation and create a pathway into advanced graduate study options in acting.

• Completed secondary education recently (within the past two years)
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and submit a supplementary application form.
  • All applicants must audition.
  • Applicants who satisfy the above requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum (academic) entry requirements of the University – completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University’s English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the audition.

  ATAR-based admission information in Semester 1, 2024

  ATAR-based admission for the Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) (includes data also for any Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) Graduate Degree Package offers, if applicable).	ATAR
  Lowest ATAR where a recent Year 12 student offer was made (excluding students made offers through special entry schemes)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Lowest ATAR to which an offer was made (including students made offers through special entry schemes)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Minimum ATAR required for consideration (only applicants eligible for special entry schemes were admitted below the minimum)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Guaranteed ATAR for applicants who completed Year 12 and were eligible for the Access Melbourne categories of rural or isolated and/or disadvantaged financial background*	N/A for this course
  Guaranteed ATAR for Indigenous applicants who completed Year 12	N/A for this course
  Guaranteed ATAR for Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars who completed Year 12 and attended an under-represented school*	N/A for this course
  Guaranteed ATAR for Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars who completed Year 12 and did not attend an under-represented school*	N/A for this course

  _{*All students who achieve the specified guaranteed ATAR and meet the course prerequisites will be offered a place}

  ATAR profile of those offered places in the Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in Semester 1, 2024 (includes data also for any Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) Graduate Degree Package offers, if applicable). Does not include consideration of student background and equity.

  ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds	ATAR
  Highest rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Median rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Lowest rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)

• Completed some or all of a higher education qualification
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and submit a supplementary application form.
  • All applicants must audition.
  • Applicants who satisfy the above requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum (academic) entry requirements of the University – completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University’s English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the audition.

• Completed some or all of a VET qualification
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and submit a supplementary application form.
  • All applicants must audition.
  • Applicants who satisfy the above requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum (academic) entry requirements of the University – completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University’s English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the audition.

• Applicants with work and/or life experience
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and submit a supplementary application form.
  • All applicants must audition.
  • Applicants who satisfy the above requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum (academic) entry requirements of the University – completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University’s English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the audition.