About the course
Reasons to study
- We're ranked 8th in the UK for 'Performing Arts' (QS World University Subject Rankings 2021).
- You’ll study in state-of-the-art, purpose built facilities, with access to rehearsal spaces, recording studios, concert venues, and a large selection of equipment and instruments.
- Excellent employment prospects: 96% of our graduates are in work or further study fifteen months after graduating.
If you're passionate about popular music and want to take your skills as a performer, songwriter, and audio studio professional to the next level, then our Popular Music degree is for you. Popular music is a highly competitive industry, so well do all we can to help you on your way to a career. Well give you the opportunity to develop industry-standard practices and techniques, while learning how to break the rules to unleash your creativity.
Why study Popular Music at Huddersfield?
- You will study in the purpose-built Richard Steinitz Building, a state-of-the-art creative hub with many practice rooms, rehearsal spaces, and professional-standard recording studios. You'll also have access to a large instrument collection, all the technical equipment you'll need and two purpose-built on-campus concert halls.
- Youll have the opportunity to work with successful musicians who will develop your abilities as a composer and a producer and take part in masterclasses and workshops given by distinguished visiting performers.
- QS World University Subject Rankings 2021 ranked the University of Huddersfield 8th in the UK for 'Performing Arts', and we were awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for our ‘world-leading work to promote, produce and present contemporary music to an international audience'.
- Youll choose your own focus, specialising in songwriting, performing, production or a mixture of subjects, whether concentrating on guitar music, pop, electronica or your own new style.