Bachelor of Science - Music Production (Honours) (with placement year)

This route — recorded in the source as three years plus an optional placement year, wording preserved in the duration field — adds a salaried audio-industry year to the music production curriculum, with taught content matching the standard degree across recording, mixing, mastering and audio technology.

Audio placements sit across recording studios, post-production houses, game developers, broadcasters and live-event companies, and each teaches a different professional discipline: session flow in studios, delivery specifications in post, implementation systems in games, and reliability under pressure in live work.

The source records this variant as three years plus an optional placement year, wording preserved in the duration field, which makes enrolment effectively risk-free: students who do not secure or want a placement complete on the standard timeline with nothing lost. Applicants should nonetheless plan the search early, as the strongest audio placements — game studios, post houses, broadcasters — recruit on technical portfolio evidence gathered during the first two years. The £17,300 taught-year fee applies across the three recorded September cycles, and studio and technical facilities remain available to placement-year students returning for final-year project work.

The optional structure protects the timeline for students who do not secure or want a placement, while those who do return with professional credits and, critically for a credit-driven industry, references from people whose names carry weight in the field.

Placement salaries make the additional year largely self-funding, and host retention is common in post and game audio where trained juniors are scarce. Graduation falls inside the 18-month Graduate Route allowance for post-2026 applications, with dependants excluded on taught routes throughout.