Music (Popular Music)

Pursue your creative endeavours – whether that's as a performer on stage or in the studio, a radio broadcast, a songwriter, a music technologist, or an events organiser promoting gigs in the region.

To thrive in today's fast-moving music culture, you'll need a wide range of musical and technical skills, and to be able to work confidently with others across a range of professional contexts.

Your practical work will culminate in a large-scale project that will be a stepping stone into your chosen career.

You'll study a range of technical skills to enable you to realise your best work. Core skills might include: project management, rehearsal techniques, music theory and lyric analysis, fluency with key pieces of music software, research skills, social media skills for promoting your work, and festival programming.

You'll receive robust training in the critical and contextual dimensions of the study of music, working with expert staff to explore, interrogate and challenge received wisdom about the value, status and significance of music in our society.

BA Music (Popular Music) is a variant of the BA Music programme. This means that you will share the same modules as other BA Music students, although when there is optionality in each module, your assessments, and specialist cluster groups, will focus on Popular Music.

Creativity lives and breathes at the University of Hull. Always has done, always will. It's central to what universities do. But at Hull, we're building something that goes far beyond our four walls. 

For the majority of our undergraduate courses, you’ll need to apply through UCAS. As well as providing your personal details, academic qualifications and any employment history – it’s a great way to showcase your skills, qualities and passion for the subject you’re wanting to study.

You don’t need to complete your application all at once – after you’ve registered with UCAS, you can save your progress and sign back in at any time.

Use our institution code H72, and for medicine (HYMS) use H75.

When to apply

Please apply through UCAS. We encourage applications by the January UCAS deadline, but will normally consider later applications for most courses. However, please be aware that Midwifery and Children's Nursing may close at that time.

For Medicine, applications must reach UCAS by 15 October of the year before the course starts.

To guarantee entry to the University, you must have met all the conditions of your offer by 31 August.

UCAS Extra

If you have used all five of your UCAS choices and not received any offers, UCAS Extra allows you to make one additional choice*. UCAS Extra is available from late February until 30 June. Please check the UCAS website for up to date information, including which programmes are available.

*It is unlikely that you will get an offer by reapplying to the same department through UCAS Extra.