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Creative industries

Study fine art or art and contemporary practices, and enjoy studio space, specialist equipment, and excellent access to our professional course team, plus the opportunity to enhance your learning and exhibiting experience in your degree show. Choose applied music, audio engineering, music business or popular music, and learn from our guest speakers including representatives from Universal Music, Sony Columbia Records, BBC Radio One, Live Nation, and Ticketmaster. Or learn Gaelic and traditional music in the heart of the Gaelic community, on the beautiful Isle of Skye. 

Or learn the ins and outs of performance on our acting, drama, production, and theatre on drama and production and theatre industry practice, following in the footsteps of UHI graduate Nicholas Ralph, who stars as James Herriot in Channel 5’s ‘All Creatures Great and Small’.

Pursue a visual communication and design career, as you learn to generate innovative ideas and expand your problem-solving skills, combining your creative thinking with your passion for art, technology, and communication. Or, study creative writing and join unique residential collaborations and writers' retreats, and gain experience through placements in the writing world.

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Undergraduate

If you don't initially meet the entry requirements for degree study there is always another route and you may want to consider an HNC, HND or access course. 

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Postgraduate

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Kirsty Stewart

Kirsty, music business graduate

I am the Marketing, Social Media & Digital Distribution Manager at Soma Records, my studies helped get my job by growing my music network and boost my networking skills. I received great support from all my lecturers at UHI, and the guest lectures were great.
A highlight was starting up my own club night in Glasgow for my Honours Project. If you are thinking about a career in the music industry, I would recommend studying at UHI. 

Kirsty studied BA (Hons) Music Business at UHI Perth. 

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Careers

Graduates progress into a variety of roles:

  • Advertising, marketing and social media
  • Artist and talent management
  • Broadcasting and online media production and editing
  • Computer games and graphic design
  • Creative writing and publishing
  • Music, arts, venues and event management
  • Performing, producing and composing music
  • Photographer and camera technician
  • Teaching and education
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