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Professional Performance AdvPgDip (post-Masters level 8)

Birmingham City University

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Course options

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  • Qualification

    Advanced PG Diploma

  • Location

    Birmingham Conservatoire

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    SEP

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

Our Advanced Postgraduate Diploma (APD) is at 'post-masters level' and is ideal for you if you are an advanced postgraduate performer who already has a Masters degree and are beginning to accept professional engagements. The course will help you to raise your performance standards to the next level, with highly specialised one-to-one tuition in the department most relevant to your specialism. You can study full-time over 12 months (September-September) or part-time (2 years).The Professional Performance APD allows you to take on performance engagements both within and outside Royal Birmingham Conservatoire as part of your course. Assessment focuses on your work in professional contexts, via a Professional Performance Portfolio module and a choice of External Engagement and Professional Project modules. We also provide a Career Management and Self-Promotion module designed to help you deal with those niggling, but vital, non-performance aspects of your professional career.If you're a home or EU student you have the option to study part-time, which allows you to take the course alongside your already-developing career. Assessment focuses on your work in professional contexts, both within the Conservatoire and externally, and we also provide a Career Management and Self-Promotion module designed to help you deal with those niggling, but vital, non-performance aspects of your professional career.This postgraduate degree will help support and advance your career as a professional musician or performer.You'll develop your already advanced skills with high-quality, 1:1 tuition and professional performance opportunities.

Tuition fees

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(International fees)

£ 26,195per year

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University information

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Birmingham City University

Birmingham City University

  • University League Table

    103rd

  • Campus address

    Birmingham City University, University House, 15 Bartholomew Row, Birmingham, Birmingham, B5 5JU, England

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Live and study in an affordable multicultural city with a diverse multi-ethnic population.
Many master's courses offer international students optional six-month professional placements towards the end of their studies.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Music

    26th out of 80 4

  • Entry standards

    / Max 223
    140 63%

    32nd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    75.0 75%

    24th

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.10 77%

    48th

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