Music BMus(Hons)

Whether you’re a performer, composer, researcher, or a mix of all three, you’ll choose from a broad range of options on our Music BMus(Hons) course. You’re able to tailor your music degree to your creative and professional interests, preparing you for careers that fulfil your ambitions and harness your creativity. On this course, you can explore different musical styles, genres, and traditions, develop as a performer, and create your own music. Areas include popular music, experimental music, film music, world music, music analysis, and arranging, and you can choose to keep your music studies broad or to specialise as a composer, musicologist, or performer. You can also secure both short and year-long industry placements to enhance your prospects. This will equip you for a range of careers as a musician, whether performing, teaching, or writing music, or adopting a mixture of different roles. You’ll study in state-of-the-art professional standard facilities, with access to a range of rehearsal spaces, recording studios, two dedicated concert halls, and a large selection of equipment and instruments for you to use. Working with experienced tutors, internationally recognised researchers, and visiting industry professionals, you’ll also collaborate with our team of instrumental and vocal teachers. In terms of awards and accolades: You can explore, and even perform, the latest new music in the annual Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and get up-close and experience cutting edge experimental artists at our Electric Spring Festival. You can also get involved in a huge range of ensembles, choirs and bands, including chamber, orchestra; symphonic wind orchestra; brass band; various classical and pop choirs; big band; funk, soul; and a huge array of original bands and chamber groups. You can also study conducting and have the freedom to develop your own ensembles.

IELTS 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5

International students: £17,600

UK students: £9,535

UK/Home: £9,535

International: £17,600

21 September 2026

28 June 2026

• University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, United Kingdom