Bachelor of Music and Performing Arts / Bachelor of Arts

Take the leap – pursue your passion for the performing arts

A career in music and performing arts offers an exciting future within the evolving creative arts industries. This highly flexible combined degree allows you to enhance your skills, discover new opportunities, and fast track your creative career through practical and creative learning.

Forge your own path by choosing from 20 majors and minors and hundreds of courses in the arts and humanities.

You might develop skills in music theory technology, hone your creative passion and technical skills across performance, songwriting or production.

Course overview

You will complete a major in Music and Performing Arts, and a major in arts, with the option to complete an Arts minor or complement your degree with elective choices.

Music and Performing Arts majors:

• Performance
• Songwriting and production
• Performing arts

Admission to our undergraduate degree programs usually requires successful completion of a senior secondary school qualification similar to the Higher School Certificate (HSC), the highest educational award in New South Wales schools.

Applicants who do not speak English as a first language must demonstrate that they meet the University's English proficiency requirement. Further information regarding English language proficiency requirements can be found at the English Language Proficiency for Admission Policy.

In the application portal, you can enter the program you wish to study and upload relevant documents needed as part of your application. It is recommended you submit your application a minimum of 12 weeks before your intended semester of trimester start date.

This combined program prepares you for a range of careers such as:

• Professional Musician
• Performing Artist
• Theatre Maker
• Composer
• Songwriter
• Music Producer