Arts University Bournemouth (AUB), you’ll join one of the UK’s leading specialists in art, design, media and performance. A diverse, collaborative community, where we equip our students in joining the creative industries sector – the largest sector in terms of employment in 2025, which contributes £124 billion to the economy annually.

We’re home to students and staff from over 60 countries, studying on 30+ courses across our four schools:

• School of Arts and Communications
• School of Arts, Media and Creative Industries Management
• Bournemouth Film School
• School of Design and Architecture

We also boast a selection of postgraduate programmes and an array of short courses.

AUB is set in one the UK’s most beautiful award-winning natural locations; boasting spectacular gardens, nine miles of sandy beaches, forests and a Jurassic coastline classified by UNESCO as a world heritage site.

AUB has also been recognised by The Guardian as one of the top three highest risers for 2026 moving up from 100th place last year to 60th this year.

Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer: Ms. Lisa Mann

Courses Offered: 
Undergraduate
BA (Hons.) (Animation & Games, Design, Architecture, Fashion & Textiles, Film, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, Creative Direction, Business, Curation, Exhibition and Experience Design, Dance, Creative Business Management, Marketing, Costume, Business of Games or Content Creation, Arts, Media and Creative Industries Management, Communications and Branding, and Performing Arts).

Postgraduate
Master of Architecture, MA Animation Production, Creative Teaching and Learning Design (Online), Creative Writing (Online), Digital Fashion Innovation, Film Practice (Online), Fine Art, Graphic Design, Graphic Design (Online), Historical Costume, Illustration, Illustration (Online), Innovation and Creative Entrepreneurship, Interior Design (Online), Landscape Architecture Studies (Online), Painting, Photography, Photography (Online), Transformative Learning, User Experience (UX/UI), Visual Effects and Photorealistic Computer Graphics, PGCert Creative Teaching and Learning Design (Online), PGDip Learning Design Methods (Online), PhD/MPhil Research Degrees

Arts University Bournemouth
7 Fern Barrow, Wallisdown, Poole BH12 5HH

Tel: 44 1202 533011
Email: admissions@aub.ac.uk
Website: www.aub.ac.uk