Bachelor of Arts - Music Technology (Honours)

BA (Hons) Music Technology approaches sound through the systems that create it: synthesis and sound design, audio programming and interactive systems, studio and live technology, electronics and signal flow, and creative composition using technological means.

Where the music production route centres on recording and mixing musicians, this course centres on making and manipulating sound itself — building instruments and processes, coding audio behaviour, designing sonic systems for installations, games and performance — a distinction applicants should weigh carefully at the shared £17,300 fee.

Applicants comparing this with the music production route should test their own instincts honestly: students who enjoy taking equipment apart, patching signal chains and writing code to make sound behave belong here, while those whose interest is recording bands and mixing records belong on the production course. Both share the £17,300 fee and the three recorded September cycles, and transfer between them is easiest in the first year, so the choice deserves genuine thought at application rather than assumption from the title alone, and open-day conversations with both course teams are worth arranging before deciding.

Practical work spans hardware and software: patching modular and virtual synthesis, programming interactive audio environments, designing sound for moving image and games, and building installations, with the final year given to a substantial technical-creative project.

Graduates work across sound design, audio technology companies, live technical roles and interactive media at £21,000–£26,000, with game audio and technical support offering the steadiest entry. The honours award confers Graduate Route rights at the 18-month post-2026 length, with dependants excluded on taught study.