Cultural and Creative Industries

The BA Cultural and Creative Industries degree at the University of Birmingham will prepare you to lead and innovate in one of the fastest-growing sectors in the UK. Combining theory and practice, your degree covers aspects of business, project management, and leadership skills alongside developing your creativity to know how to deliver dynamic content to audiences.

This industry-focused programme draws on our internationally recognised research and practice-led expertise in theatre, performance, film, creative writing, arts and cultural policy, visual arts, curation, production, and digital media, as well as the legal, business, leadership, and management aspects of these industries.

Modules blend theoretical study with real-world examples to prepare you for future employment as an adaptable, resilient and innovative leader in this sector. Through the programme you can also opt to develop aspects of your own creative practice, ensuring that you understand the demands of producing cultural work with an ability to deliver a variety of cultural projects in areas such as performance, curation and film.

You will have opportunities to network and undertake work placements to foster your professional development through the extensive connections that we have with cultural and creative partners in the region and beyond.

Why study this course?

Our BA Cultural and Creative Industries degree is right for you if:

You are excited by the opportunities available globally in the cultural and creative industries – both for your future employment and as a sector that constantly innovates in the ways that it engages with audiences. Be part of that dynamism.

You want to learn from and work with industry and academic experts – across research, business and practice.

You want to study on our beautiful campus and have access to our range of incredible facilities – including content creation, podcasting and editing studios, performance spaces and iMac labs.

You want the opportunity to benefit from our campus cultural venues – such as the Barber Institute, the Bramall Music Building, with its own concert hall, and the Lapworth Museum.

You want to join an amazing array of alumni who are already dynamic leaders in the cultural and creative industries – such as Gareth Neame, CEO for Carnival Films, Aaron Wright, Head of Performance and Dance at London’s Southbank Centre, Aidan Lang, General Director of Welsh National Opera, Alison Davies, Publicity Director for Penguin Random House, Amanda Ross, CEO of Cactus TV, Azaria Yogendran, Senior Account Executive at ING Media, Caroline Smith, Digital Commissioning Editor at the BBC, Elizabeth (Zeddie) Lawal, Producer and Change Maker, and Funmi Olutoye, Features Producer for ITV

The University of Birmingham is ranked equal 10th in the UK amongst Russell Group universities in the Research Excellence Framework exercise 2021 (Times Higher Education)

Top 65 in the world for Arts and Humanities (QS World Subject Rankings 2024)

First-year modules cover a broad base of the subject and are designed to introduce you to ways of studying at university. By the final year the modules you take will become more specialised and reflect the research expertise of the academic staff. More detailed module information can be found on the ‘Course detail’ tab on the University of Birmingham’s coursefinder web pages.