Home
Apply
Undergraduate

Apply

Undergraduate

Found a course that you'd like to apply for? Here are the next steps:

Apply for Undergraduate

There are several routes that you can use to apply to one of our undergraduate courses depending on your circumstances.

If you're applying from the UK or Channel Islands, you'll need to apply to us through UCAS. If you're applying from the EU or overseas there are other options available besides applying through UCAS, like applying directly or through an agent.

We've broken down each of the different application options and when you should apply through them, below.

Apply via UCAS Track your application via the AUB Applicant Portal

How to apply

Before starting an application, make sure to read through our:

Portfolio guidelines
Personal Statement tips
English Language requirements
Entry requirements (you can find these all below).

Pink banner with a calendar icon and text reading "31 January" in the centre.

Apply via UCAS

You can apply to study one of our 30 creative degree courses via UCAS, including entry to second and third year

Apply direct to Undergraduate

If you're an overseas student looking to study at AUB, you can apply directly to us

Apply via an Educational Agent

We have Educational Agents all over the world to help guide you through the application process

Apply via Common Application

International students can apply through The Common Application if you're not applying through UCAS or direct application

Entry requirements

We welcome students from all areas of the world into our creative community. Please note that the entry requirements below are for 2024 entry.

Entry Qualifications

All applicants must have Level 3 qualifications, which should include at least one creative subject. We're looking for between 112 and 120 UCAS Tariff points. You can use the UCAS Tariff Calculator to work out how many points you have.

The standard offers for degree courses include:

GCE A-Levels – BBB at A-Level excluding General Studies, or 120 UCAS Tariff points
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Pass
BTEC Level 3 Diploma at Distinction* Distinction*
T-level grade of Merit or above
BTEC/OCR Extended Diploma at Distinction, Merit, Merit
RSL/UAL Diploma – must be combined with other Level 3 qualifications equivalent to 112-120 UCAS Tariff points
RSL/ UAL Extended Diploma at Merit
A combination of BTEC Subsidiary Diploma and A-Levels – equivalent to 120 UCAS Tariff points
Three BTEC Subsidiary Diploma passes at Grade Merit
Scottish Highers – five passes at Grade C or above

AUB welcomes applications from students who have completed, or who are soon to complete, a T level in a relevant subject to their chosen course of study. Applicants will be required to achieve an overall grade of Merit or above.

Applicants with VTCT qualifications who've the ability to achieve the minimum stated entry requirements of between 112-120 UCAS points will be considered.

For BA (Hons) Architecture, the standard offer is ABB at A-Level (128 UCAS) Tariff points.

Please note that AUB doesn't request information about criminal records from our applicants.

IB Qualifications

IB (International Baccalaureate) Diploma – score equivalent to 112-120 UCAS tariff points and these can be made up from a range of qualifications including but not limited to: Standard Level, Higher Level, BTEC, Cambridge Technical. We'll consider applications from students who haven’t enrolled in the full IB Diploma Programme and have completed independent subject courses/certificates.

Students who've chosen not to enrol in the IB Diploma Programme will be expected to achieve 112-120 UCAS points from a minimum of three Higher Level subjects.

Qualifications by Country

Austria – Successful completion of the Reifeprüfungzeugnis or Matura requirement with an overall average Grade of 2.

Bangladesh – Successful completion of a recognised foundation course or one year of degree level studies.

Belgium – Successful completion of the Diploma van Secundair Onderwijs, with an overall result of 6.5/10 or 13/20.

Bulgaria – Pass Diploma za Sredno Obrazovanie with an overall average mark of at least 5.0.

China – Successful completion of the Chinese Senior Secondary School Certificate with a minimum overall pass mark of 70% OR Pass CAFA International Foundation Year with a minimum of 70%.

Cyprus – Achieve a minimum overall grade of 17 in the Apolytirio Genikou Lykeiou or 80% in the Greek Cypriot Apolyterion.

Czech Republic – A score of 2.9 or higher in the Maturita.

Denmark – Successful completion of the Studentereksamen with an overall result of 8/12.

Egypt - Successful completion of a recognised foundation course.

Estonia – Successful completion of Gümnaasiumi Lõputunnistus with an overall average result of 4.0 or above in all subjects, and Riigieksamid (National Exams) with average result of 70% in tests taken.

Finland – Successful completion of the Ylioppilastutkinto/Studentexamen with an average grade of 4 or above (Cum Laude).

France – A good pass (grade 12 or above) in the Baccalaureate. Baccalaureate à Option Internationale/Baccalaureate de l’Enseignement du Second Degré.

Georgia - Successful completion of a recognised foundation course

Germany –Achieve a minimum overall grade of 2.7 in the Abitur Zeugnis der Allgemeinen Hochschulreife/Zeugnis der Reife/Reifezeugnis. A minimum grade of 10 (Gut) on the English component of the Abitur meets our English language requirements.

Greece – Achieve a minimum overall grade of 17 in the Apolytirio Genikou Lykeiou or 80% in the Greek Cypriot Apolyterion.

Honduras - Successful completion of a recognised foundation course or achieve Título de Técnico Universitario/Título de Grado Asociado with GPA 3.0/4.0 or Bueno or higher.

Hong Kong – Successful completion of the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKSDE) with grades of 333 or above.

Hungary – A grade of 4.0 in the Erettsegi.

Iceland – Successful completion of Iceland Studentsprof.

India – 65% or above in Standard 12 from a recognised exam board.

Indonesia - Successfully complete the SMA (Certificate of Completion of Academic Secondary School) with a minimum score of 80% or above or Diploma III (D3) with an overall minimum grade of 3.0 out of 4, or successfully complete the first year of study in Indonesia

Iran - Successful completion of the high school diploma and a recognised foundation course or associate degree.

Ireland – Pass FETAC: 3 subjects with Distinction and 2 with Merit. Or Pass Irish Leaving Certificate (Irish Highers): H2, H3, H3, H3, H3 or equivalent.

Italy – A minimum of 70 points in Diploma di Esame di Stato (formerly Diploma di Maturita).

Japan – Successful completion of a recognised foundation course or successful completion of JCFL Study Overseas Art and Design college program.

Kenya - Achieve A-level grades BBB or above

Kuwait - Successful completion of a recognised foundation course.

Latvia – Good grades (7–8) in the Atestats par visparejo videjo izglitibu, plus a Grade 8 for English.

Lithuania – Brandos Atestatas overall grade 7.5, with grade 8 for English.

Malaysia – Successful completion of Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (Malaysia Higher School Certificate) with grades BBB.

Mexico – Successful completion of a recognised foundation course.

Netherlands – Successful completion of the VWO Diploma with an overall result of 7/10.

Nepal – Successful completion of a recognised foundation course or one year of degree level studies.

Nigeria – Successful completion of a recognised foundation course or one year of degree level studies.

Norway – Vitnemal (with four in key subjects including English).

Oman – General Education Diploma with a minimum 80% mark.

Pakistan – Successful completion of a recognised foundation course or one year of degree level studies.

Paraguay - Successful completion of a recognised foundation course.

Peru - Successful completion of a recognised foundation course.

Philippines – Successful completion of a recognised foundation course or two years of completed study at degree level.

Poland – Successful completion of the Matura with an overall result of 60%.

Portugal – Diploma de Ensino Secundário/Certificado de fim de Estudios Secundários with an average score of 16.0 in all subjects.

Romania – Pass Romania - Diploma de Bacalaureat with Grade 7 or above.

Russia – Successful completion of a recognised foundation course or one year of degree level studies.

Singapore - Achieve grades of BBB or above in Singaporean A-levels or a recognised polytechnic diploma.

Slovakia – lovakia-Vysvedcenie o Maturitnej Skuske with a minimum of Grade 2.0 (chvalitebny) in all subjects with the majority at grade 1.0 (vyborny).

South Africa – Successful completion of the South African National Senior Certificate with grades ABBBB/76666.

South Korea – Successful completion of a recognised foundation course.

Spain – Pass Título de Bachillerato with an average mark of 7.0 or higher.

Sri Lanka - Achieve grades of BBB or above in the Sri Lankan General Certificate of Education

Sweden – minimum grade of C/15 in the Avgångsbetyg/Slutbetyg från Gymnasieskola.

Switzerland – Pass Cantonal Maturity Certificate or a Federal Maturity Certificate, or a professional Maturity Certificate at grade 4.

Taiwan – Successful completion of the Taiwanese Senior High School Leaving Certificate with a minimum overall pass mark of 70%.

Thailand – Successful completion of a recognised foundation course or one year of degree level studies.

Turkey – Successful completion of the Devlet Teknik LISE Diplomasi or Devlet Meslek LISE with an overall grade of 70% or above.

Ukraine – Successful completion of a recognised foundation course or one year of degree level studies.

United Arab Emirates – Successful completion of a recognised foundation course or one year of degree level studies.

Uruguay - Successful completion of a recognised foundation course.

USA – For direct admission, prospective applicants are urged to follow a college preparatory programme in high school, taking a senior course in fine or applied art where possible.

We'll accept any one of the following:

Successful completion of an accredited honours or college preparatory high school diploma with a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
Successful completion of an accredited high school diploma with a GPA of 3.0 or above, plus one of the following:
Two AP exam results with a grade of 3 or higher.
SAT I (Reasoning) scores of at least 1100.
SAT II subject tests in at least two subjects with minimum scores of 600.
Two or more IB Diploma Programme Courses
ACT test results in at least two subjects with minimum scores of 24.
Successful completion of an accredited Associate’s Degree.
Successful completion of first year (freshman year) of University at an accredited University.
Successful completion of a recognised Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Studies.

We will consider applicants who present a US high school diploma but who have not completed additional SAT, ACT, or AP exams. Applicants without those external exams will still be considered on the strength of their portfolio/audition and/or personal statements and are expected to demonstrate a profile of academics and experience related to the creative arts.

Vietnam – Successful completion of a recognised foundation course.

Offer holder days

Once you've applied and received an offer, you'll get the chance to explore the campus on an offer holder day. These events are invite-only and give you an opportunity to meet prospective course teams, your future classmates and take part in group activities.

Offer holder days

Have a question?

We understand that applying to university can be a confusing time. We've answered a few of our frequently asked question below but if you have an unanswered question or are unsure about whether your qualifications meet our requirements, you can email our Admissions team on admissions@aub.ac.uk.

You can also call us on 01202 363225 or 01202 363228.

The UCAS equal consideration (on-time) application deadline was Wednesday 31 January 2024.

If you apply after 31 January, you should be aware that places may be limited on our courses.

Applications directly to second or third year can be made via UCAS. As a general rule, you’ll need to meet our entry requirements and the content of the degree you’re currently studying needs to be very similar to the course you're transferring to.

We’ll also need you to provide an academic transcript from your current University.

Due to the nature of the course, our BA (Hons) Acting course can only accept applications for first year.

In addition, we can currently only accept applications for first year on the following courses:

BA (Hons) Communication Design and Strategy
BA (Hons) Creative Direction
BA (Hons) Creative Technologies
BA (Hons) Creative Writing (online)
BA (Hons) Curation, Exhibition and Experience Design
BA (Hons) Design for Sustainable Futures
BA (Hons) Games Art and Design
BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design for Health and Wellbeing

Conditional offer – this means that you must fulfil certain criteria before you can be accepted onto a course. Usually, this will be passing your current examinations at a certain grade. The details of the offer are printed in your offer letter and can be viewed on MyApplication and via UCAS Hub

Unconditional offer – this means that you've already satisfied the entry criteria and have secured a place.

UCAS defines mature students as applicants over 21. If you are a mature student and you meet the entry requirements above, please apply through UCAS.

If you don’t meet the entry requirements, we may still consider your application. We can assess your formal qualifications and also take into account relevant work experience.

We're very interested in applicants who have relevant experience in the creative industries, so make sure you give details of this in your application.

We might advise you to take a Foundation Diploma course at AUB, or to consider an Access to HE course. Unfortunately, we don't offer Access courses at AUB, but you can find out more here.

If you're unsuccessful, you’ll be able to view feedback on the UCAS website. We’ll also send you a message on the AUB applicant portal, giving you further information.

If you'd like to request additional feedback, you can email admissions@aub.ac.uk – Please note that only you can request this feedback.

AUB will only consider overseas applicants through The Common Application who haven't already applied through UCAS. Applicants submitting applications via The Common Application must be liable to pay overseas fees.

Contextual data: We may flag some contextual data in your application. This helps us to understand more about you as an applicant. You can read more about contextual data.

Transparency data: Information on the number of applications, offers, registrations and attainment of different groups of AUB applicants and students is available on the OFS Transparency page.

There are only a few courses where you'll be asked to attend an interview or audition; if you're invited to one you'll have at least 10 days notice to prepare.

The courses currently offering interviews are BA (Hons) Make-up for Media and Performance and BA (Hons) Textiles. BA (Hons) Acting and BA (Hons) Dance will be offering auditions.

Many of our other courses will require you to submit a link to your online portfolio or showreel instead. If you're unable to attend an interview or audition in person (for example due to living outside the UK) then we'll request a link to your online portfolio or a recorded audition instead.

Some of our courses are designed to accept students with suitable qualifications and for these courses we'll be able to make a decision based on your application without the need to submit a portfolio. If you apply for one of these courses without the qualification subjects we're looking for, don't worry! If we can't make a decision based on the information in your application then we'll request a link to your online portfolio.

Applicant FAQs

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 do not use a school or college email address on their application. We find that school spam filters often block your log in 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 has been longer than one working day since you applied and you haven't got our emails and they aren't 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 is best not to allow the device to "remember" your password. Unfortunately Apple devices tend to save the temporary password instead of the new one and 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:

Click the “Problems logging in?” link at the bottom of the login screen.
Follow the “Applicant link” and then select “Forgot your password?”
Enter the required details.
You'll then receive an email containing your password. This email will arrive within an hour but can be flagged as Junk or Spam by your email provider.
After you've logged in, you'll be asked to change your password to something more memorable.

If you're logging in using an iPhone or iPad, you'll need to follow a slightly different process:

Find "evision.aub.ac.uk" and delete the saved old password.
Log in from scratch using the correct password that you've set yourself. That should then force your device to save the new correct password.
Apple devices unfortunately save the temporary password and don't update it even if you click to "update" when logging in.

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.

Example of the forgotten password error on the AUB applicant portal. Copy reads: Account details incorrect – forgotten password could not be reset.

If you're logging in using an iPhone/iPad you'll need to follow a slightly different process:

Find "evision.aub.ac.uk" and delete the saved old password.
Log in from scratch using the correct password that you've set yourself. That should then force your device to save the new correct password.
Apple devices unfortunately save the temporary password and don't update it even if you click to "update" when logging in.

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:

You’ll be able to register to book accommodation with us within 48 hours of accepting a place. You can contact our accommodation team for more information around how to book accommodation.
You’ll also have a new tile that'll allow you to declare a disability to us, to make sure that our Disability team can start putting in place any support you need during your studies. If you have any questions, you can contact our Disability team directly.

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.

There are lots of opportunities to visit AUB:

Visit us at an Open Day – you’ll have the chance to explore the campus, hear from our students and lecturers and ask all your burning questions.
Visit our campus in person on other days for a self-guided tour. Parking is limited, so it's always best to let us know you're coming so we can reserve a visitor space for you. After parking, please start your visit at our main reception, which is located in University House. At reception, you can collect a map of our site. If you have trouble locating reception, please ask a member of our security team to direct you. Unfortunately, the course team won't be available to meet you (they'll be busy teaching the courses), but please enjoy exploring all our facilities and getting a feel of the atmosphere.
Book on to one of our campus tours, which run on Fridays between May and December. These tours allow you to explore our creative campus and its general facilities with one of our student ambassadors, so that you can get a feel for AUB.
If you're unable to make it to campus, you can access our recorded virtual Open Day talks on our Open Day Hub. You can also take a virtual tour of our campus.

To book a room, please note the following information:

You must have firmly accepted an offer to study before you are able to book a room in halls of residence.
Not all halls of residence are available to students at all levels of study.
Students living in halls are not segregated by age or gender.
You'll be able to select your preferred Halls of Residence and room type, subject to availability. Allocation is at the sole discretion of AUB; there's no right of appeal against allocation of rooms in halls.
Rent is paid termly in advance. Rent per week is detailed on our Halls of residence page.
Rent is inclusive of all bills, excluding a TV licence. Halls of residence booking forms are legally binding contracts, for full-time tenancies.
We comply with the UK/Guild HE and ANUK codes of practice for student accommodation. The UUK/Guild HE and ANUK codes were developed specifically for educational establishments.
Members of the Codes are independently audited to ensure that halls of residence meet specified standards.

For more information, please contact one of our Student Advisers on studentadvice@aub.ac.uk or by calling 01202 363780.

Find out more about our Halls of Residence

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.

Find out more about our Halls of Residence

Portfolio FAQs

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.

For static images (for drawings, photography, scans, etc.) we advise applicants to use Flickr where possible, however we're happy to accept portfolios through any online sharing platform of your choice; whichever host site you find easiest to use.
You may wish to consider using Vimeo or YouTube (for moving images and show reels), Google Drive or a blogging site like Word Press, or Tumblr (for static images or a mix of files types).
Some students choose to create a personal website (wix.com is popular) containing their work and perhaps explanations of the work submitted.

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:

Log in to the AUB applicant portal (click the “Problems logging in?” link if you can't log in).
You'll see you have two messages; one message giving you details about the portfolio you're requested to submit, and another message where you can submit the portfolio link.
Select the “Applicant Portfolio Request” message on the right-hand side – this is where you'll be prompted to provide your portfolio URL.
Paste the URL in the box provided and select "no" on the drop-down menu and click “Save”.

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.