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Program facts

  • Program type
    Bachelor's
  • Duration
    3 years
  • Annual tuition fee
    18,900 GBP

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  • Language taught in
    English
  • Start date
    September

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Program overview

What Rose Bruford College says about their program:
"This course equips you with a range of practical theatre craft skills including prop making, scenery building and scenic painting. Skills that will enable you to pursue a career in theatre, film, television, museum displays, and themed attractions.
You will gain hands-on experience and learn from working practitioners. You will graduate with a forward-looking professional knowledge, based on traditional experience and practice as well as modern materials and emerging technologies.
This solid understanding of the technical arts combined with a core practical skills base can be applied across a wide range of roles, sectors and types of performance-based activity.
Why choose this course?
• Expert Training: Gain construction skills in wood and metal (using hand tools and machinery). Learn scenic painting techniques and explore prop making in a range of materials. Develop advanced skills with computer-aided design (CAD), digital manufacturing and 3D modelling using resins and silicon.
• Dedicated Facilities: Spacious and equipped workshops on campus, which include CAD facilities, paint frame and specialist fibreglass and plaster room.
• Career Focused: Develop your own areas of specialism through individual project work, productions and work placement. Creating your own unique portfolio, growing your experience and preparing you for a career in the theatre and performance industries.
• Real Experiences: You will manufacture scenic elements to live briefs and see them used in fully realised productions in College and London venues. Gaining an understanding of collaborating with designers, directors and other courses as part of a creative team."

Admissions requirements

Undergraduate academic requirements

  • Each course has a UCAS point requirement of either 64 or 96 points
  • Applicants for design, creative, or management courses will be asked to submit a portfolio of work

English proficiency

Undergraduate

  • IELTS: 6.5
  • Language Cert: B2 Communicator 33
  • PTE: 45
  • PSI Services: 4SB2 Upper Intermediate ‘Pass’

Graduate

  • IELTS: 6.5
  • Trinity College: ISE- ISE II Merit
  • LanguageCert: B2 Communicator 39
  • PTE: 50
  • PSI Services: 4SB2 Upper Intermediate ‘Pass’

Documents required

  • Application form
  • Academic transcripts
  • Diploma of previous studies
  • Translations
  • Proof of English proficiency
  • Passport identification page
  • Portfolio

Fees and funding

Funding

International Student Bursary for Design, Management & Technical Arts Courses}

Each year, Rose Bruford award one bursary to an international student as they commence their study on an undergraduate program within its Design, Management, and Technical Arts (DMTA).

The bursaries, with a value of £2,000 each year for three years (total £6,000) are part of the College’s commitment to making high-quality professional training and education in theatre and the entertainment industries available to students from anywhere in the world.

International students, who have international student fee status and have been offered a place on a DMTA program may apply for the bursary before starting their studies.

Fee information

  • Undergraduate tuition: £18,900 per year
  • Graduate tuition: £21,735 to 32,000 per year

Visa requirements for Rose Bruford College

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