Share on facebookShare on emailShare on twitterMore Sharing ServicesShare Commercial Music * Award: BA (Hons) Commercial Music * UCAS code: W304 * School: School of Music and Performing Arts * UK/EU Fees: Tuition fees are £9,000 per year. * Fees and Finance Information * Course length: 3 years full-time * Campus: Newton Park * Course Handbook (PDF) Find out more * Admissions Service: 01225 875609 * Email: admissions@bathspa.ac.uk Send me updates Simply enter your details to receive information from Bath Spa University.Email: Firstname: Surname: Year of Entry: Submit Apply on UCAS's site * Overview * Course Structure * Teaching Methods and Resources * Entry * Careers * Student Experience A vocational course for original songwriters and musicians (also available as a four-year Integrated Masters). Why study Commercial Music? BA (Hons) Commercial Music “While giving you a deep understanding of the workings of the industry from business to creativity, it also allows an individual to pursue their specific interests in detail. Thank you for giving me the best 3 years of my life.” - Neil Martin, Broadcast Engineer, Abbey Road Live (Commercial Music Graduate 2007) Why choose this course? If you have a flair for original musical ideas, then Commercial Music can take you on a creative journey to inspire and define a lifelong career. You will write original material and songs, and around this we explore identity, promotion and the wider music business context for your creativity. Some of our graduates are signed artists, and some work for record labels and in music publishing. Others are employed in the entertainment business, and across the digital sector. All share a passion for music, and all of our students are songwriters, lyricists and composers, and all perform regularly on the course. On campus, we encourage artistic collaboration across many genres. Commercial Music at Bath Spa University is all about creation: songs, projects, bands and entrepreneurial ideas. In writing, designing, promoting, performing, researching, touring and launching your creative material you will acquire a range of skills with which to broaden your future career choices. Commercial Music is unique in UK higher education with its focus on songwriting. Bath Spa University is host to the annual UK Songwriting Festival, and hosts the world's first Masters Degree in Songwriting. All of the teaching team are active musicians, producers, performers and writers with a portfolio of recorded and published work. “When you start in the industry, most people want to see experience. Commercial Music allows you to say I worked with these bands, I promoted this album, we toured these territories and I designed this product. That’s the kind of experience you need in such a creative industry.” - Simon Drake, Label Manager, Naim Edge (Commercial Music Graduate 2007) For Commercial Music band videos, please click here! For Commercial Music Graduate info, please click here!

Many graduates from Commercial Music go on to work either in the music business or related fields. Employers of graduates include Sony, Universal Music Group, PRS for music, Mercury Records, One Little Indian, Union Square Records, PIAS, Atlantic Records and many more. Signed artists include The Heavy and Kill It Kid.