Transform your career with a postgraduate qualification in Acting at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Designed to advance your practical and professional progress, our PgDip Acting course provides intense training from tutors with extensive industry experience.
You will be taught to maintain a high standard of skill and knowledge and how to transform into an independently-minded performer and practitioner. We will enhance your ability to reflect and analyse, through a range of concepts and ideas. You will enhance your technical skills through practice-based study, learning and developing flexibility to confront issues that you may experience within your profession.
Your studies will help to influence and shape your career; previous graduates have been commended by industry for their innovative, challenging project work. Our acting and performances courses have recently been ranked as 3rd in the UK by the Guardian University league table 2019 (drama and dance category).
This course is based the School of Acting at Ruskin Hall in Bournville.
During the application and audition process, you must select which instrument(s) you wish to specialise in for the duration of your course. On this course, you can choose from the following options:
Only one specialism is studied. It may be possible to study a further instrument, but this will not contribute towards the qualification.
For all courses, you must select at least one specialism from the 'primary' list. For those studying primary/secondary pathways, two instruments may be selected – one from the 'primary' list and one from the 'secondary' list. Joint pathway students may select any two instruments from either list.
This course is closed for the 2025 academic cycle. Please contact the provider or view the 2026 courses.
The following entry points are available for this course:
Please see the university website course page for information on entry requirements for this course.
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | 7 | with no subject below 6.5 |
| Location | Fee | Year |
|---|---|---|
| England | £9735 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9735 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9735 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9735 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
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