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Fashion Communication with Business Studies BA(Hons)

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Intro

Study fashion communication at Brighton and gain the skills and knowledge to work in this global industry.

This course provides a solid foundation for a career in areas including fashion photography, styling, publishing, fashion film, forecasting, creative and art direction, picture editing, visual promotion, social media and multi-platform thinking.

We want you to become forward-thinking in your ideas and to challenge the boundaries of fashion communication. You will be encouraged to approach your work creatively and experimentally and think critically about topics. 

Fashion at Brighton is internationally respected and you will work closely with designers from fashion and textiles courses, undertaking projects that mirror industry practices. You will specialise in your second year. 

You’ll learn from industry professionals and business studies forms an integral part of the course – you will learn to prepare business plans and think in terms of enterprise and entrepreneurship.

The optional placement year means you will graduate with established industry contacts and an excellent portfolio of work experience.

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Key facts

Location Brighton: City campus

UCAS code W213

Full-time 3 years
With placement year 4 years

Apply now with UCAS for 2023

Art and design courses at Brighton are ranked joint 8th in the UK and in the top 100 globally by the QS World University Rankings® 2022

Course content

Year 1

Modules

  • Study Skills in the Creative Industries

    This module is an introduction to study skills in HE practice-based courses at undergraduate level. You will be introduced to fashion communication through object and image analysis and to skills ranging from research to presentation.

  • Introduction to Fashion Photography and Styling

    This module introduces you to fashion styling and photography through the exploration of subcultures and tribes. The module will equip you to experiment and test ideas in fashion photography and fashion styling.

    By looking at key stylists and photographers from recent history you will explore issues in identity, political and social change.

    You will be introduced to the photographic studios, the camera and to key principles of styling, to the roles of the fashion photographer and the fashion stylist.

  • Introduction to Fashion Illustration and Imaging

    This module introduces you to fashion illustration and imaging, and visual research and processes from the hand-drawn sketch to the digital image.

    It equips you to experiment and test ideas in fashion drawing, visual research and processes and explores fashion and identity through outputs such as magazines, fanzines and interactive imaging.

  • Introduction to Visual Promotion

    This module introduces you to the subject of visual promotion through the exploration of social and cultural capital. You will be introduced to the value of fashion trends, fashion forecasting and its influences on fashion brands.

    The module explores the impact of new and emergent technologies and their impact upon visual promotion and how these can be utilised as fashion communicators. Lectures on fashion trends and forecasting, emergent technologies, workshops, tutorials and learning to promote your ideas.

  • Market Research and Business in the Creative Industries

    This module introduces you to and equips you with a range of transferable skills, qualities and attitudes that will prepare you for professional career paths in the creative industries. Through investigation and critical reflection, you will have the opportunity to develop your knowledge and appreciation of the scale and scope of the creative industries and begin to locate yourself, your interests and your practice within a vocational context.

  • Design and Culture Under Scrutiny

    This module introduces key debates relevant to the analysis of the past and present in fashion, textiles and fashion communication. Through lectures, seminars and exhibition visits, you will be introduced to, and engage with, critical ideas and academic approaches relevant to your field of study.

    The module is designed to support studio work through the development of critical thinking and formal written skills.

Making sure that what you learn with us is relevant, up to date and what employers are looking for is our priority, so courses are reviewed and enhanced on an ongoing basis. When you have applied to us, you’ll be told about any new developments through Student View.

Start of Spring by Feiyi Hung

Start of Spring by Feiyi Hung, winner of the 2019 Photography Award at Graduate Fashion Week

Year 2

In year 2 you will specialise in one of three areas.

  • Fashion photography and styling
  • Fashion imaging, film and interaction
  • Visual promotion

You will also choose whether to undertake a third year placement or progress straight to your final year.

Modules

  • Editorial Brief
  • Pathway Projects
  • Creative Collaboration in the Fashion Industry
  • Preparing for and Engaging with Business
  • The Clothes and Fabric of Society 
Student magazines in Brighton bookstore

For a year 2 group project, students produce magazines over three months, each taking an individual role such as photographer, stylist, designer, art director or writer. The Brighton shop Magazine then gives the publications a pop-up window display for a weekend, with students keeping the profits.

Placement year

After your second year will have the opportunity to complete a year in industry within the diverse fashion communication sector with a dedicated placement team to support you in your research, preparation and application for placements.

This process begins in the second year when you will complete a compulsory professional practice module which will support you to develop skills and promotional material to make applications for placements.

You will also receive an individual service to guide you towards your first choices and to support you while on placement. The placement year in industry is academically assessed and your degree award will reflect your industry experience. The placement is for a minimum of 20 weeks.

You may find placements across the following a broad range of areas including: fashion forecasting, fashion photography and styling, features editing, picture editing, fashion buying, fashion PR, fashion event planning, fashion merchandising and visual merchandising.

You can see some of the places that our students have been on placement in the careers panel below. 

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Samruddhi Karandikar’s turned her placement in logistics and operations at Italian luxury brand Max Mara in London into a full-time job on graduation.

Final year

In your final year you will choose and research an area of study, and then develop this study into your final project with a series of outcomes. You will also complete a business plan. 

You will also be part of a final exhibition where industry contacts are invited to see your work.

Modules

  • Fashion Communication Research, Investigation and Proposal
  • Fashion Communication Final Project and Portfolio
  • Design Management and Business Plan
  • Historical and Critical Studies Research Project.

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Graduate Fashion Week 2019. Fashion Communication with Business Studies students showcase their work at this major fashion event in London. 

Facilities

  • Media Centre, including specialist equipment including materials for sound, film and photography available for short term loan, computer rooms with contemporary software for digital image processing and manipulation, graphic layout and typography, animation, film and sound production and editing.
  • Access to Mac suites, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere.
  • Photographic Services Unit including well-equipped dark room, studio and camera loan facilities.
  • Students also have access to the TECH HUB – a team of technical demonstrators based in Grand Parade who provide specialist creative software support including Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects etc) , Rhino, Blender and C4D, as well as web and blog-related software. They manage digital manufacturing services within the School of Art and Media, including laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC routing, plasma cutting and 3-axis CNC milling. They also have VR headsets and 3D scanners. The TECH HUB has its own dedicated PC suite with all of the software they support as well as standard university programmes.
  • Department print bureau.
  • One of the country's best-stocked specialist art and design libraries.
  • Internationally important Design Archives.
  • On-site supplies shop.

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Meet the team

Rachael Taylor, course leader
Rachael is a fashion artist whose work looks into practical and interventional experiences that engage a wider audience in the fashion and socio-economic debates. Her recent work explores the value systems between wellness and fashion consumption.

Other staff on the course include:

  • Mark Wells - senior lecturer and a practising interaction designer. His research interests explore the intersectionality of the digital and analogue spaces.
  • Chris Arran – fashion Imaging, illustration and graphic design, specialising in multimedia illustration
  • Eloise Calandre – photography and moving image, with specialist knowledge in contemporary digital practice
  • Emma Collins – visual promotion, specialising in social media and maker spaces
  • Jules Findley – specialising in fashion communication, fashion illustration, postproduction in film, fashion imaging, catwalk photography, embodied materiality and material knowledge.
  • Chris Hagan – technical demonstrator
  • Daniela Hatfield – visual promotion, specialising in trend forecasting and project development

Our latest news

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Join us at our online portfolio advice event on 28 February to get tips and advice from students and staff about how to prepare your portfolio.

Graduates 2022: Megan Siggers: Fashion Communication

Graduates 2022: Megan Siggers: Fashion Communication

“Brighton as a city is the perfect hub for young creatives to meet like-minded people and start a career in any creative space.

Graduates 2022: Cerys Matthews: Fashion Communication

Graduates 2022: Cerys Matthews: Fashion Communication

“I feel I’ve been guided and pushed by my tutors and the opportunities presented to me throughout the course but have also felt a great sense of freedom to explore my own styles.

Graduates 2022: Olivia Van de Velde: Fashion Communication

Graduates 2022: Olivia Van de Velde: Fashion Communication

“To have the option of placement was great and has meant once we graduate in July, we’ll know what to expect.

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Fashion Communication is a course made up of different practices so knew I would be able to try things out before picking what I finally wanted to do. There is always a buzz of excitement and the first two years really prepared me for placement, which was great and has meant once we graduated, we knew what to expect

Olivia Van de Velde

Careers

Prepare for your career 

Your Fashion Communication with Business Studies degree provides subject knowledge and expertise and opportunities to put what you learn into practice with work-related experience.

  • You will develop valuable transferable skills such as a critical thinking and writing, independent research and analysis.
  • The course will equip you with excellent presentation, written and oral communication skills.
  • Live briefs from companies which have included Puma or WGSN, give you industry insight and experience.
  • Projects could include producing publications with each student taking on a specific role such as photographer, writer, editor, stylist etc. A recent second year project saw students selling their publications in the specialist Brighton shop Magazine creating a pop up window display.
  • Option modules in your second and third years span subjects including photography and styling and visual promotion enabling you to tailor your degree to your specific career ambitions
  • A programme of visiting industry professionals give you a window a window into the fashion and publishing industry.
  • CV and personal profile development is an integrated part of your studies.

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Fashion Communication rooms

Placements 

Taking a placement in fashion organisation enables you to:

  • apply your learning to real life situations and challenges
  • get an insight in to how businesses and organisations function
  • develop existing skills and discover new ones
  • explore career options
  • make professional contacts
  • build confidence and organisational skills.

Many students find that the placement informs as well as enhances their employment after graduating.

Our students have completed placements at organisations including: Dazed & Confused, Harpers Bazaar, The Vampire's Wife, Selfridges, Moseley Road and Big Sky Studios.

Showcasing your talent 

There are many opportunities to exhibit work publicly throughout the course.

At the end of your degree you can exhibit a body of work in the university’s graduate show, a large-scale exhibition that is the culmination of the final year and a major event open to the public.

See more student work on their fashion communication blog.

Graduate destinations 

Fashion has a distinguished reputation at Brighton and our graduates leave with the creative skills and business knowledge to equip them in this fast-moving industry. Graduates of Fashion Communication with Business Studies can expect to work in careers such as:

  • fashion forecasting
  • fashion photography
  • fashion styling
  • fashion film
  • art directing
  • creative direction
  • features editing
  • picture editing
  • fashion buying
  • fashion PR
  • fashion event planning
  • fashion merchandising
  • visual merchandising.

Notable alumni 

Ones to watch

  • Feiyi Hung who won the 2019 Photography Award at Graduate Fashion Week
  • Samruddhi Karandikar, 2019 graduate who is now working at Max Mara
  • Natasha Perkin 2019 graduate, flew to Italy the day after graduation to take up a job working behind the scenes for HBO
  • Olivia Shaw, 2018 graduate working at a fashion recycling initiative in London
  • Maddy Thompson, 2018 graduate production assistant at WHAM
Feiyi Hung

Feiyi Hung, winner of the 2019 Photography Award at Graduate Fashion Week

Further study 

This degree also opens up a range of postgraduate study options. At Brighton you could progress on to: 

  • Journalism MA  
  • PGCE Art and Design

Professional advice and support 

Outside of your course, our Careers Service is here to support you as you discover (and re-discover) your strengths and what matters to you. We are here for you throughout your university journey as you work towards a fulfilling and rewarding career.

Connect with our careers team

  • Find part-time work that you can combine with your studies.
  • Find, or be, a mentor or get involved with our peer-to-peer support scheme.
  • Develop your business ideas through our entrepreneurial support network.
  • Get professional advice and support with career planning, CV writing and interview top tips.
  • Meet potential employers at our careers fairs.
  • Find rewarding volunteering opportunities to help you discover more about what makes you tick, and build your CV.

Whatever your career needs, we are here to help. And that's not just while you are a student, our support carries on after you've graduated.

Find out more...

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Employment demand for arts graduates

The British Academy has compiled a report (May 2020) quantifying the demand for arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) skills in the workplace. It helps to answer the legitimate question of what the economic return is on undertaking a degree, both in time and money. 

According to the report:

  • As arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates progress through the first ten years of their career they are able make strong progress up the career ladder into roles attracting higher salaries
  • Arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates are employed in some of the fastest growing sectors including financial services, education, social work, the media and creative industries
  • Of the ten fastest growing sectors, eight employ more graduates from AHSS than other disciplines

This makes AHSS graduates at the heart of some of the most exciting, productive, largest and fastest-growing sectors of the UK economy.

Future skills demand

According to the report:

  • With the challenges the world is facing – climate change, global pandemics, the growth of populism – the UK needs the insights of the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) as much as those from science, technology and engineering (STEM)
  • Evidence within the report shows that Arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates are central to these challenges and changes – they will be vital in giving us the tools to examine and explain human behaviour, understand how society functions, learn from the past and apply those lessons to the present, and analyse the drivers and implications of a changing world and how different countries, places and cultures interact.

Entry criteria

Flexible admissions

When you apply to Brighton we want to hear about who you are. Grades are never the whole picture; we're interested in things like creativity, resourcefulness, persistence and the capacity to think big and find new ways of doing things. And we recognise that not everyone has the same background. That's why we treat everyone who applies as an individual. We recognise many qualifications and we care about all of your achievements and the experiences you've had that set you apart.

Find out more

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Entry requirements

A-levels or BTEC
Entry requirements are in the range of A-level BBB–BCC (120–104 UCAS Tariff points), or BTEC Extended Diploma DDM–MMM. Our conditional offers typically fall within this range. We are looking for highly motivated and creative students. We will consider you on an individual basis. Your portfolio is the most important and mandatory part of your application. If your predicted or actual grades fall below the range below but you can evidence your thinking, ideas and abilities through a high-quality portfolio we will still consider your application.

Art foundation diploma
Pass. A foundation diploma is not a requirement for entry – it is just one of a range of qualifications that is accepted for admission to this course. 

International Baccalaureate
30 points, with three subjects at Higher level.

Access to HE diploma
Pass with 60 credits overall. Art and design courses preferred. At least 45 credits at level 3, and 30 credits must be at merit or above.

Studied before or got relevant experience?
A qualification, HE credits or relevant experience may count towards your course at Brighton, and could mean that you do not have to take some elements of the course or can start in year 2 or 3. 

English language requirements
IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each element. Find out more about the other English qualifications that we accept.

International requirements and visas

International requirements by country
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Australia
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Japan
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Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malaysia
Malawi
Malta
Mexico
Moldova
Montenegro
Morocco
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Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palestinian National Authority
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
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Romania
Russian Federation
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Serbia
Sierra Leone
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Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Syria
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

We can help you meet our English language or academic entry requirements.

Visit our language centre

For English language preparation courses.

Visit our International College

For degree preparation courses.

Visas and immigration advice

Applying for a student visa

Check out our step-by-step guidance.

Portfolio advice 

Online portfolio

Once you have applied, we'll ask you for a digital portfolio (Tumblr, Flickr or any other type of folders via link) consisting of 15–20 images containing:

  • drawing ability and experimentation
  • conceptual ideas
  • two or three sketchbook pages
  • ideas related to fashion
  • 2D or 3D experimentation ideas or tests.

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In usual circumstances you would have the opportunity to bring a physical portfolio to interview. As we are focusing on online portfolios this year, you may wish to use our guidance for physical portfolios as inspiration on what to include:

  • evidence of an awareness of concept, image, illustration, film
  • evidence of use of drawing to record and develop ideas
  • experimental approaches to investigation and discovery of materials/processes
  • ability to carry an idea forward from concept
  • potential to experiment and explore ideas, techniques
  • examples of life drawing
  • 2D visual evidence of development
  • two working sketchbooks, source ideas, experimentation.

We also expect applicants to demonstrate an awareness of fashion and fashion communication within a wider context, eg fashion trends, artistic, cultural and social movements.

Find out more about how to create and submit your portfolio.

Fees

Course fees

UK (full-time) 9,250 GBP

International (full-time) 15,300 GBP

If you choose to take the professional placement (sandwich) year offered on this course you will pay a reduced fee during this year. Our fee for the professional placement year is £1,410 for UK students and £2,180 for international students. This fee may be subject to small increases, in line with inflation.

What's included

You may have to pay additional costs during your studies. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. A summary of the costs that you may be expected to pay, and what is included in your fees, while studying a course in the School of Art and Media in the 2022–23 academic year are listed here.

  • Typically, practice-based courses incur more costs than text-based subjects. For many courses you will need to budget for the cost of specialist materials, equipment and printing and are likely to spend between £50–£300 per year.
  • For some courses you may also need to budget up to £100 for specialist personal protective clothing which, with care, will last for the whole of your course and beyond.
  • For most courses you will have the opportunity to attend field trips and off-site visits, for example to galleries, exhibitions and studios both in the UK and overseas. These are optional and are not required to pass your course. The amount spent would be based on location and number of trips taken, and typically range between £100 and £700 across the duration of your course.
  • You will have access to computers and necessary software at City campus and Moulsecoomb campus and at other locations across the university. Specialist equipment is provided to cover essential learning. Students may choose to buy their own specialist equipment, these may include cameras, or computers and software, university/student discounts are available for some equipment and software. Budgets can range from £50–£2,000. Buying specialist equipment is best undertaken in consultation with our academic and technical staff. This expenditure is not essential to pass any of our courses.
  • For some courses you will need to budget up to £200 for printing and publishing. Photography courses may incur higher costs (£500–£2,000) when printing and framing images of professional standard for public presentation.
  • Course books, magazines and journals are available in the university libraries. You do not need to have your own copies, but if you wish to, you should budget up to £200 over your course to buy them.
  • For courses in which there is an optional placement year, you will need to budget for living costs (rent, food, travel etc) in that city/country, as if you were on site at the university.
  • For some courses you will need to budget up to £150 for stationery.
  • Final-year graduation shows are opportunities to present your final, independent project work to the public. Practice-based courses will typically incur higher costs. Depending on the specific nature of your final project you will need to budget between £20–£2,500.

You can chat with our enquiries team if you have a question or need more information. Or check our finance pages for advice about funding and scholarships as well as more information about fees and advice on international and island fee-paying status.

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The fees listed here are for full-time courses beginning in the academic year 2023–24.

Further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study and are subject to an annual increase of no more than 5% or RPI (whichever is the greater). The annual increase for UK students, who are subject to regulated fees, will increase no more than the statutory maximum fee.

You can find out more about our fees in the university's student contract and tuition fee policy (pdf).

The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors including the kind of course you take, and whether you study full-time or part-time. If you are studying part-time you will normally be charged on a pro rata basis depending on the number of modules you take.

Location and student life

Campus where this course is taught

City campus

City campus is located at the heart of central Brighton.

The facilities for making and designing, the theatre, galleries, workshops, studios, archives and the independent arts organisations based on site provide a unique and inspiring environment where creativity thrives.

St Peter’s House library and Phoenix halls of residence are close to the exhibition and learning facilities in the Grand Parade main building where you will also find the student centre with careers, counselling, student advice service and disability and dyslexia support. Edward Street provides extensive teaching and gallery space for media, photography and film.

Also on site are Screen Archive South East and University of Brighton Design Archives.

Brighton Pavilion, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, the iconic pier and beach are a very short walk away. The independent shops and businesses of the North Laine and Kemptown, and Brighton main line station, with frequent express services to London, are 10 minutes walk.

Grand Parade exhibition space

Accommodation

Brighton: City campus

We guarantee an offer of a place in halls of residence to all eligible students.

Halls of residence
We have halls of residence across Brighton in the city centre, Moulsecoomb, Varley Park and Falmer. All rooms are self-catered.

  • You'll be prioritised for accommodation in the halls that are linked to your teaching base, subject to availability.
  • City campus is linked to Phoenix halls, Mithras halls and Moulsecoomb Place.
    • Phoenix halls are a short walk from City campus in the centre of Brighton.
    • Mithras hall and Moulsecoomb Place are located on the Moulsecoomb campus, around two miles from City campus. Public transport in the city is excellent.

Want to live independently? We can help – find out more about private renting.

Phoenix Brewery Halls Accommodation

Accommodation for City campus is in the nearby Phoenix Halls

Student kitchen in Phoenix Halls

Student kitchen in Phoenix Halls

Relaxing in nearby Pavilion Gardens

Relaxing in nearby Pavilion Gardens

Local area

About Brighton

The University of Brighton is at the heart of our city’s reputation as a welcoming, forward-thinking place which leads the way when it comes to the arts, music, sustainability and creative technology. Brighton is home to a thriving creative community and a digital sector worth £1bn a year. Many of the work-based learning opportunities offered on our courses such as placements, live briefs and guest lectures are provided by businesses and organisations based in the city.

We provide support and venues for key events in the city’s arts calendar including the Brighton Festival, the Festival Fringe, the Great Escape, the Brighton Digital Festival, Brighton Photo Biennial and the CineCity Brighton Film Festival. Other annual highlights include Pride, the Brighton Marathon, and Burning the Clocks which marks the winter solstice. Our own Brighton Graduate Show transforms our campus into the largest exhibition space in the South East as we celebrate the outstanding talent and creativity of our students.

As a student you’ll get lots of opportunities to experience these events at first hand and to develop your skills through the volunteering and other opportunities they offer.

You'll find living in Brighton enriches your learning experience and by the end of your course you will still be finding new things to explore and inspire you.

It's only 50 minutes by train from Brighton to central London and less than 40 minutes to Eastbourne. There are also daily direct trains to Bristol, Bedford, Cambridge, Gatwick Airport, Portsmouth and Southampton.

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Maps

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Support and wellbeing

Your course team

Your personal academic tutor, course leader and other tutors are all there to help you with your personal and academic progress. You'll also have a student support and guidance tutor (SSGT) who can help with everything from homesickness, managing stress or accommodation issues.

Your academic skills

Our Brighton Student Skills Hub gives you extra support and resources to develop the skills you'll need for university study, whatever your level of experience so far.

Your mental health and wellbeing

As well as being supported to succeed, we want you to feel good too. You'll be part of a community that builds you up, with lots of ways to connect with one another, as well having access to dedicated experts if you need them. Find out more.

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Sport at Brighton

Sport Brighton

Sport Brighton brings together our sport and recreation services. As a Brighton student you'll have use of sport and fitness facilities across all our campuses and there are opportunities to play for fun, fitness or take part in serious competition. 

Find out more about Sport Brighton.

Sports scholarships

Our sports scholarship scheme is designed to help students develop their full sporting potential to train and compete at the highest level. We offer scholarships for elite athletes, elite disabled athletes and talented sports performers.

Find out more about sport scholarships.

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Stay in touch

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Statistics

Find out more about how the academic year and degree courses are organised, and about learning and assessment activities you might get to grips with at Brighton. More specific information about this course is detailed in the programme specification (linked below). You can find out also about the support we offer to help you adjust to university life.

Course and module descriptions on this page were accurate when first published and are the basis of the course. Detailed information on any changes we make to modules and learning and assessment activities will be sent to all students by email before enrolment, so that you have all the information before you come to Brighton.

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Programme specification

The programme specification is the approved description of each course. They give a detailed breakdown of the content and structure of the course, and are updated following course changes.

Programme specification

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