Music

Music at Leeds is a degree that takes the full breadth of musical life seriously, drawing on music from a wide range of genres, styles, cultural contexts, and geographic locations rather than privileging any single tradition. It is an intellectually demanding and personally enriching discipline that develops your capacity to think critically and creatively about music in all its forms, to practise it with growing skill and independence, and to situate it within its cultural, historical, and social contexts.

At the University of Leeds, this three-year, full-time programme offers exceptional flexibility, allowing you to personalise your course by choosing from a broad range of optional areas including aesthetics, analysis, contemporary composition, film music, the music business, musicology, music psychology, music technology, performance (solo and collaborative), and popular music. This means you can shape the degree to reflect your own interests and strengths, whether your passion is performance, composition, scholarship, or the commercial dimensions of the music world. The programme includes a sandwich placement year for extended professional experience, a year abroad, and work placement integrated throughout the course, giving you substantial practical and international exposure alongside your academic development.

A typical entry tariff of 168 points reflects the competitive and academically rigorous nature of the programme.

Graduates from music programmes at Leeds go on to careers as performers, composers, music educators, music journalists, arts administrators, music industry professionals, music therapists, and sound designers. The analytical, creative, and communication skills developed through the degree are also valued across a wide range of other professional fields. Many graduates continue to postgraduate study in musicology, composition, performance, music technology, or arts management, building on the breadth and depth of the undergraduate degree.