University of the Arts London
UAL is the world’s biggest factory for trouble - Throughout their time here, students are encouraged to push boundaries and explore the limits of their creativity.
UK
UAL is a city based university with our Colleges based across London.
Undergraduate Students:
18000
Average 1st Year Class Size:
Class sizes vary in each course and College, some courses can have classes as small as 7, others can have up to 40.
University of the Arts London (UAL) is a world Top 2 university for art and design according to the QS World University Rankings® and Europe's largest specialist university for art and design.
UAL is made up of six world renowned Colleges including a new Creative Computing Institute. Across our Colleges we teach foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the subject areas: Arts, Design, Fashion, Media and Communication, and Performing Arts.
The collaborative, entrepreneurial and boundary-pushing environment here at UAL continues to produce many of the world’s leading creatives. Our students seek to use creativity to help solve the biggest global challenges from social justice and climate change to health and wellbeing.
Selectivity
IB Grades
UFP Grades
Highly Selective, Selective, Somewhat Selective
For Foundation Diploma entry, Level 3/EU/International qualifications, such as International Baccalaureate Certificates - 2 at ‘Higher Level’ and 1 at ‘Standard Level’ - all grade 4 or above. Applications for practical art subjects also require a portfolio.
Most students applying to UAL will undertake a foundation diploma before applying to an undergraduate degree.
Education Model
Internships within degree
Study Abroad available
UAL offers a range of honours and integrated masters courses in the wider subject areas:
Art
Design
Fashion
Media and Communications
Performing Arts
No but, UAL is the number one ranked university in the UK for producing business leaders (Hitachi Capital invoice Finance Stud, 2020)
Students can undertake a Diploma in Professional Studies as part of their course.
Yes, absolutely!
Tuition Cost
Financial Aid
Foundation Diploma is free for home students under 19.
19 or over fee is £5,280+£140 awarding body registration fee.
Foundation Diploma fee for International students is £18,300.
Home tuition fees for full time undergraduate study is £9,250 per year.
International tuition fees for full time undergraduate study is £22,920 per year.
UAL offer a range of scholarships and financial aid, all of which can be found on our webpage:
Subjects
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Please note that rankings do not exist for all subjects