Music (Songwriting)

Pursue your passion for music on this career-focussed degree.

With our performance-led staff, you’ll challenge the value, significance and status of music in our society on our Music (Songwriting) degree.

You’ll develop technical skills, such as project management, music theory and lyric analysis, while building your research skills and social media skills to help realise your best work. Your practical work will culminate in a large-scale project that will help open doors in your future career.

BA Music (Songwriting) is a variant of the BA Music programme. You’ll share the same modules as other BA Music courses, but your assessments and specialist cluster groups will focus on songwriting.

Why study at Hull?

- Tap into our industry connections: We have close relationships with Opera North and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which offer workshops, one-to-one tuition and career advice.

- 100% employability: A perfect 100% of our students are in work or further study 15 months after graduating.¹

- Industry-standard facilities: Get exclusive access to our 400-seat concert venue, professional recording studios, ambisonic studios, and rehearsal spaces.

Where could this take me?

Not only will you graduate with a professional portfolio to make your CV stand out, but you’ll also gain access to our network of industry professionals, offering live projects, work experience, masterclasses, and more.

Our graduates have become musicians, composers, singer-songwriters, and recording artists. The transferable skills you’ll learn will help you to launch a career as a radio producer, music promoter, events manager, music therapist, teacher or journalist.

¹ (Music) UK domicile full-time first degree leavers; Higher Education Graduate Outcomes statistics, for the academic year 2020/21, published by HESA June 2023.