Overview

The Popular Music (Hons) programme offered by Edinburgh Napier University is designed to support you in following pathways that reflect your specialist interests in performance, composition, production, or other areas such as education, management and research.

Key facts

You will have the opportunity to develop and demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of your creative and scholarly intentions and mindset, with music as the primary medium for exploration and expression across a range of genres, including Classical, Jazz, Contemporary Commercial, Avant Garde and Popular Music styles (including Hip Hop, and Electronic Music).

You will explore music in practical and contextual perspectives and domains, to develop your practical, critical and analytical skills and attributes. You will experience performance in a solo and/or ensemble/band context, depending on your specialism, with accompaniment provision (where appropriate). The practical application of orchestration/arranging and composition is emphasised through collaborative projects and workshops with instrumentalists. With modules that prepare you for careers in education and community music, we are also one of the few music departments in the country to offer an undergraduate module in Music Therapy.

Career opportunities

Recent graduates have been employed in a wide variety of fields of work including:

Arts Management
Performance
Composition
Songwriter
Artist Manager
Producer
Postgraduate study
Musicologist
Music Teacher
Music Therapist
Session Musician
Audio Engineer
Arts Administrator
Foley Artist
A&R Coodinator
Music Distribution Manager
Tour Manager
Plugger

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Programme Structure

Courses include:

Music and Praxis
Contextual Studies: Research in Music
Contexts of Practical Musicianship: Technique and Applications
Contexts of Practical Musicianship: Creative Parameters
Contexts of Music Education
Music Software Applications

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Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-07 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-14 00:00:00

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Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

80

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PTE Academic

56

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IELTS

6

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Credits

480 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Music View 367 other Bachelors in Music in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

80

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PTE Academic

56

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IELTS

6

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Other requirements

General requirements

You should state your specialist interests clearly on your application. This may be performance (please state your principal instrument), composition, or production. If you meet or are predicted to meet the minimum academic requirements, we will contact you to request a portfolio demonstrating your experience in areas of relevant practice: performance, composition or production.
These requirements apply to all years of entry.
Our entry requirements indicate the Standard (minimum) qualifications with which we normally accept students. Competition for places varies from year to year and you aren't guaranteed a place if you meet the minimum qualifications.
HND: Pass HND in Music or Music Performance with Grade A at SCQF Level 8 in all graded units.

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

21120 GBP / year

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Citizens or residents

1820 GBP / year

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Additional Details

England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Republic of Ireland £9,790
Overseas and EU £21,120

Living costs

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

725 - 1167 GBP / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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