Established in 1885 as a specialist institution, Arts University Bournemouth is a leading University offering high quality specialist education in art, design, media, and performance across the creative industries. We are passionate about the creative subjects we teach and encourage curiosity, risk-taking, and adventure in exploring and pushing subject knowledge and boundaries.
Arts University Bournemouth (formerly The Arts University College at Bournemouth, AUB), established in 1885 as a specialist institution, is now a leading University offering high quality specialist education in art, design, media, and performance across the creative industries. We remain passionate about our subjects and continue to encourage curiosity, risk-taking, and adventure in exploring and pushing subject knowledge and its boundaries. The University provides staff and students with a well-resourced environment to practice to the highest professional standards.
Our staff is exceptional. They are inspiring teachers, researchers, industry practitioners, and technicians who are all here to support you with your studies and help you to achieve outstanding outcomes. THBWe has been awarded Gold in the TEF (Teaching Excellence Framework) by HEFCE, which assesses the quality of teaching. We received this for delivering consistently outstanding teaching, learning, and outcomes for our students. Our teaching is of the highest quality found in the UK.
Our Diploma in Art and Design – Foundation Studies Programme is delighted to have achieved the ‘Outstanding’ rating in its 2018 Ofsted inspection – in all four areas. You can read more here and see the full report here. AUB’s stunning state-of-the-art campus is a creative hub designed for specialists. With a backdrop of head-turning architecture, you will be in a community of like-minded makers and thinkers. Our campus is a catalyst to shape and build your work to experiment, innovate, be curious, and push boundaries. It is where you will make amazing things happen.
Our spaces are divided into villages, boulevards, green space, and infrastructure. Our campus also has a real buzz about it. On route to the café, you might pass a film crew, a woman in Elizabethan dress, and a DJ. It is a microcosm of the creative industries. AUB was voted the highest-ranked modern university in the South West by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018. We invest heavily in industry-standard technology and spaces that equip you for life in the creative industries. We want you to get used to the equipment and facilities you will find in the real world.
Plus, you are also surrounded by the New Forest, great beaches, and World Heritage Jurassic Coast. Bournemouth boasts excellent nightlife and culture too, and London is just two hours away. We are a practical university with strong ambitions for our graduates to enjoy rewarding careers. Our graduate employment rate is 98%*, the joint highest employment rate of any English university. We consistently achieve outstanding employability results because of the quality of our teaching and our campus and facilities, which prepare our students for employment.
We are a gateway to the £92 billion creative industries, which is growing faster than the whole of the UK economy, accounting for 1 in 11 jobs. It is a sector that can be rewarding, exciting, and needs new ways of thinking. The creative industries need someone like you. Our alumni regularly return with incredible stories of things they have done, a business they have created, and awards they have won.
The best work happens when different disciplines come together. Everyone here is a creator, and you will get the chance to collaborate with them. No creative subject stands alone at AUB. Cross-fertilization of ideas and techniques benefits everyone, and it is exactly how students will experience the real world.
Our collaborations extend beyond courses that work together, to the broader university world and links with industry. Every year we also turn the University into the most significant creative agency on the south coast for 24 hours. Sign up, and you will have the opportunity to work on briefs from some of the most innovative brands today. Past briefs have come from Virgin, Bestival and the RNLI. Our AUB community works to make the world a better place, using creativity to offer solutions to the inequalities and injustices that they see in the world. AUB offers PrepHE, undergraduate and postgraduate awards in art, design, media, and performance. These awards are characterized by an emphasis on studio practice, delivered within a community of creative professionals.
Courses have a strong focus on developing the technical and professional skills of students, which leads to highly employable graduates both within their specialist fields and beyond. Collaboration between courses, and between students, is designed to reflect the demands of professional practice how courses work together to provide this professional environment is a crucial feature of the educational environment at the institution.
This charter sets out Arts University Bournemouth’s commitment to providing you with a service of the highest quality. You must respond in a positive way to this partnership to take full advantage of the educational opportunities available to you, and realize your full potential.
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