Foundation
Here's everything you need to know to apply to one of AUB's foundation courses
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Found a course that you'd like to apply for? Here are the next steps:
Once you've explored our creative courses, attended an open day and discussed your options with family and friends, you're ready to start your application to join us in 2025.
To make your application journey as stress-free as possible, we've created some helpful steps to guide you through the process. Depending on your fee status, there might be more than one application route available to you.
Select from the options below to find out how to apply for each of our course levels and for advice on entry requirements.
If you have any questions about our courses, entry requirements or how to apply to us, contact our admissions team by email admissions@aub.ac.uk or call +441202 363228/+441202 363225.
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When we get your application we will send you two emails. These emails will normally be sent during working hours, so please wait for at least one working day for them to come through.
The first email will acknowledge you application and the second will contain your initial login details for the AUB applicant portal. Many email providers will try to block these emails because they contain login details.
We recommend that applicants don't use a school or college email address on their application. We find that school spam filters often block your login details emails completely. It's also important to use your own personal email so that you don't lose access to our emails to you during the Summer!
On your personal email account it's a good idea to add admissions@aub.ac.uk to your contacts or safe senders list as well as checking your junk or spam folders regularly.
If it's been longer than one working day since you applied and you haven't got our emails and they're not in your junk/spam folders then please just let us know – if you include your full name, date of birth and the course you've applied to in the email then we'll be able to find your application and help you log in to the portal.
When you log in for the first time, you'll be asked to change you password to something more memorable. If you're using an Apple device then it's best not to allow the device to "remember" your password. Unfortunately Apple devices tend to save the temporary password instead of the new one, so you can end up locked out of the portal.
Please ensure you're trying to log in to the correct portal. Make sure you've closed down any browsers/tabs on other devices that might be trying to access the portal. The login and password reset process will often fail if you try to log in on more than one tab. This is the most common cause of errors.
You can then try to reset your password by following these steps:
If you're logging in using an iPhone or iPad, you'll need to follow a slightly different process:
If you still experience problems, just let us know. If possible, try to send us screenshots showing the problem so that we can help.
If you try to reset your password and get the error message – "Account details incorrect - forgotten password could not be reset" – this might mean that we have an error in your data on our application system.
Please email admissions@aub.ac.uk with the AUB ID, Last Name and Date of Birth entered onto the form and we'll check them against the details on our system and correct any errors.
We'll also manually reset your password so that you're able to log in again.
If you're logging in using an iPhone/iPad you'll need to follow a slightly different process:
If you still experience problems just let us know. If possible, try to send us screenshots showing the problem so that we can help.
If you get an 'invalid ISS message', your browser has cached the old password. Sometimes entering the correct login details a second time will resolve this, but if that doesn't work, then the browser cache needs to be cleared:
Clear cache to wipe old passwords stored:
Yes, that’s absolutely fine and something a lot of our applicants actually choose to do. You'll need to apply for the Foundation Diploma directly to us (not through UCAS), which means you don't have to use up an extra UCAS choice.
If you accept an offer from us for both the Foundation Diploma and BA (Hons) course, we’ll contact you in August to ask you which place you plan to take up.
If you’d like to apply for the Foundation Diploma and we’ve already got a UCAS application from you, simply email us at admissions@aub.ac.uk with your AUB ID or UCAS ID and let us know.
We can create a new Foundation Diploma application for you using the information on your UCAS form, so there’s no need to fill out our direct application form yourself!
If you’ve applied through UCAS, you can only reply to your offers when all of your five choices have made a decision on your application. Please see the UCAS website for help with this.
If you’ve applied to us directly (for example for our Foundation Diploma in Art, Design and Media or our Master's degrees) then you can reply to your offer by logging into the AUB applicant portal. There should be a message in your in-tray that you can click on to accept or decline or to request to defer your place. If you can’t see this message then please email us admissions@aub.ac.uk with your AUB ID, course name and what you'd like to do and we can reply to your offer on your behalf.
Once you accept an offer from us, new tiles will be available in the AUB applicant portal:
Join the AUB Applicants Facebook group. When you request to join, you'll be asked to provide your AUB ID or your UCAS ID and the course that you've applied for. This is so we can verify that every member of the group is a genuine AUB applicant, so you can be confident that you're meeting your future course mates.
We'll try to approve you to join as soon as possible – usually within a few hours.
Yes. AUB welcomes applications from students who are from under-represented backgrounds in Higher Education. Further information can be found on our Contextual Offers page and in section 6 of our Admissions Policy.
There are lots of opportunities to visit AUB:
To book a room, please note the following information:
For more information, please contact one of our Student Advisors on studentservices@aub.ac.uk or by calling 01202 363780.
Applicants who are under 18 at the start of their course will be considered in the normal way. However, the university does require an under-18 consent form to be completed and returned before we're able to confirm a student's place on the course. This'll be sent to you by email at the point of any offer being made.
For more information, please view our AUB Under-18 Policy Statement, or contact the Admissions team on admissions@aub.ac.uk or by calling 01202 363225.
Most of our courses will ask for a portfolio. However, there are some exceptions. The following courses do not require a portfolio as part of the application process:
For undergraduate courses, we don't expect you to submit a digital portfolio at the same time as your UCAS application.
If we require a link to your online portfolio we'll contact you by email and through the AUB applicant portal to request the URL. So you only need to provide us with your portfolio when we request it.
To understand what our course teams expect to see please see our portfolio guidelines.
We normally ask that your portfolio is provided within four weeks of us requesting it.
If you're unable to provide us with your portfolio within four weeks, please just let us know so we can make a note on your application and extend your deadline.
It's worth knowing that the sooner we receive your portfolio the sooner the course team can make a decision on your application.
For undergraduate courses, we need to make a decision on your application before a deadline set by UCAS and this will determine the latest date that we will be able to accept a portfolio – we may have to reduce the deadlines from April onwards.
We’ll ask you to submit a single link to your online portfolio. This can be a link to a public portfolio on a website like wix.com, Instagram, Behance or similar or it can be a private link to a copy of your portfolio hosted on an online file sharing site like Google Drive.
For showreels and auditions we also ask for a single link to a video or playlist hosted on YouTube or Vimeo or similar (either public or unlisted).
There are a number of platforms well suited to submitting your portfolio. We recommend you take into consideration what type of file you are generally using and how you wish it to be viewed.
The most important thing you can do is ensure you adhere as closely to the AUB portfolio guidelines as you can.
Regardless of which platform you choose, please just ensure your portfolio is available to view publicly and isn't password protected or require a login to access it.
You can produce your portfolio using YouTube, Vimeo, Behance, Wix, Flickr, Drop Box, Google Drive or another suitable platform for your work.
We need you to collate everything in one place and have available a single link that you can share with us. It's also very important that there is no password or login required to access the link.
You need to submit your portfolio link via the AUB applicant portal. This will ensure your portfolio is properly recorded on your application. You can do this following the instructions below:
Once this is done the link will be automatically added to your application, and we'll receive a notification to send your full application to the course team for further review.
Once you submit your link the admissions team will test the link to make sure it’s working and available without logging in.
If that’s fine then we’ll pass your application and portfolio on to the course team to review. If there are any problems then we’ll get in touch by email and through the applicant portal to explain the issue and reopen the option to submit a new link on the applicant portal.