University for The Creative Arts
University for The Creative Arts - Multiple Campus in South of UK
Overview
The University for the Creative Arts offers an array of specialist courses in friendly and supportive campus environments and continues to provide an inspiring education to all our students.
Our subject areas include:
- Advertising & Branding
- Animation, Computer Games & Digital Arts
- Architecture & Interior Design
- Crafts: Jewellery, Ceramics & Glass
- Design for Theatre, Performance & Events
- Fashion & Textiles
- Film & Video
- Fine Art
- General Art & Design courses
- Graphic Design & Illustration
- Journalism & Broadcasting
- Marketing & Management
- Photography & Media Arts
- Three Dimensional & Product Design
Our creative reputation has been established over 150 years of tradition in teaching art and design. Our 6,500 students include international students from over 70 different countries, studying on a range of courses at further education, undergraduate and postgraduate level.
We are based at five campuses across the South East of England, in Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester. We are close to London and mainland Europe, and within an hour of the nearest international airports.
Services for International students
We are committed to helping you to achieve on your course, at the highest level of which you are capable and you will have the opportunity to update and improve your academic English skills, through attending our English Language support classes whilst you are on course.
The methods of teaching and learning in the UK may differ from those in your own country. The main philosophy of higher education in the UK is to provide support and guidance, which allows students to develop their creativity and academic skills, whilst learning to adapt and transfer the new knowledge and skills they acquire to new contexts. We encourage students to think creatively and to produce personalised, original and individual solutions to assignments. This means that there is not always a 'right' or a 'wrong' way to answer a set assignment.
You may find that this encouragement of your individual talent, rather than being taught exactly what to do, is quite different from your previous experiences in education; however you will soon realise that it can be very exciting to unlock the individual creativity that you have inside of yourself!
We feel it is important that our students are involved in their own learning process; so as well as a system of us teaching and you learning, you will find yourself participating in seminars, group discussions, group assessments and feedback sessions to and from tutors.
If you have come from an educational background that is more structured towards direct instruction, you may find the UK learning methods challenging at first. However, help and guidance is on hand to support you with your academic progress.
We offer students English Language classes, which are tailored to meet the course requirements at each stage of your study at UCA. Tutorials, with staff specialising in the theoretical aspects of the course, will also help you develop your English Language skills.
We are certain that you will gain confidence, knowledge and acquire new skills during your course of study, which will enable you to further develop your new found skills when you embark on the next stage of your life.
Accommodation
University accommodation ranges from on campus halls of residence to University managed flats and houses. All our accommodation is self-catering and the majority is in single study bedrooms.
Location
The University of Creative Arts has campuses in in Canterbury, Maidstone and Rochester, which are located in Kent which is about an hour south east of London, and Epson and Farnham in Surrey about a hour west of London. Both are within an hour of international airports.