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Overview

Top reasons to study with us

  • 4

    4th for Art and Design

    The Complete University Guide (2025)

  • 5

    5th for graduate prospects (Art and Design)

    The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide (2025)

  • Your own studio space, available 24/7

Why Lancaster?

  • Take a highly distinctive programme that combines fine art practice with the study of contemporary ideas and modern art movements
  • You’ll have your own dedicated studio space available 24/7 from day one
  • Work with tutors who are practicing artists and scholars, exhibiting and publishing across a range of fine art ideas and mediums
  • Join a supportive community of staff and students committed to thinking about and making art relevant to today

Ready to sharpen your skills and techniques in the medium/s of your choice? Develop your artistic expression with meaning and skills relevant to contemporary art. Discover how art can erupt and disrupt in the most unusual places.

Bring your ideas to life

Discover how wide-ranging fine art can be in the 21st Century with this dynamic degree. With seminars and lectures in history and theory, we’ll help you decide your values and the type of work that is important to you.

You'll have the opportunity to work across painting, drawing, sculpture, digital, live art and their hybrids. Through technical workshops and practical demonstrations, you’ll gain an intricate understanding of different mediums and how they can be exploited to express concepts and ideas.

A thriving creative community

Your tutors are professional artists who are exhibiting, curating and writing across a range of art and ideas. You’ll join them in a community of thinkers and makers, that is both highly creative and intellectually vibrant.

As well as refining your practical studio skills, you’ll also become a critical reader and examine how contemporary art is constantly developing new and exciting ways of looking at the world.

Flexibility

In the first year, there is a focus on increasing your knowledge and skills in your major degree subject. You will also have the option to complement your degree studies with a module in a 'minor subject'. Please contact the department for further details.

Careers

By the time you finish this course, you’ll be equipped with a sophisticated understanding of fine art. You’ll also have carefully honed your own independent style under the guidance of leading practitioners in the field.

You might pursue life as an artist or pursue a wide range of careers in the creative economy, including roles in:

  • Curating
  • Exhibition management
  • Museum and gallery management
  • Artefact conservation
  • TV and film scenography
  • Art event management

The mix of academic and creative skills you develop at Lancaster will also prepare you for postgraduate study after this degree.

Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring that you gain a highly reputable degree. We are also dedicated to ensuring that you graduate with relevant life and work-based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award, which offers you the opportunity to complete activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.

Visit our Employability section for full details.

Entry requirements

These are the typical grades that you will need to study this course. You may need to have qualifications in relevant subjects. In some cases we may also ask you to attend an interview or submit a portfolio. You must also meet our English language requirements.

Find more about these qualifications and others not shown here

Learn about how we will assess your application

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Contact Admissions

If you are thinking of applying to Lancaster and you would like to ask us a question, please complete our enquiry form and one of our team will get back to you.

International foundation programmes

Delivered in partnership with INTO Lancaster University, our one-year tailored foundation pathways are designed to improve your subject knowledge and English language skills to the level required by a range of Lancaster University degrees. Visit the INTO Lancaster University website for more details and a list of eligible degrees you can progress onto.

Contextual admissions

Contextual admissions could help you gain a place at university if you have faced additional challenges during your education which might have impacted your results. Visit our contextual admissions page to find out about how this works and whether you could be eligible.

Course structure

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and some which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme to complement your main specialism.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, and the University will make every reasonable effort to offer modules as advertised. In some cases changes may be necessary and may result in some combinations being unavailable, for example as a result of student feedback, timetabling, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes and new research. Not all optional modules are available every year.

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Fees and funding

Our annual tuition fee is set for a 12-month session, starting in the October of your year of study.

Our Undergraduate Tuition Fees for 2025/26 are:

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£9,535 £24,700

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Scholarships and bursaries

You will be automatically considered for our main scholarships and bursaries when you apply, so there's nothing extra that you need to do.

You may be eligible for the following funding opportunities, depending on your fee status:

Scheme Based on Amount
Lancaster ScholarshipBased on Entry grades Amount £2,000 in your first year of study
Lancaster Opportunity ScholarshipBased on Contextual offer Amount £1,000 per year of study
Lancaster BursaryBased on Household income Amount £1,000 per year of study
Lancaster Global Scholarship - UndergraduateBased on Entry grades Amount £2,000 in each year of study for applicants joining Part 1 of our undergraduate programmes.

We also have other, more specialised scholarships and bursaries - such as those for students from specific countries.

Browse Lancaster University's scholarships and bursaries.

Important information

The information on this site relates primarily to 2025/2026 entry to the University and every effort has been taken to ensure the information is correct at the time of publication.

The University will use all reasonable effort to deliver the courses as described, but the University reserves the right to make changes to advertised courses. In exceptional circumstances that are beyond the University’s reasonable control (Force Majeure Events), we may need to amend the programmes and provision advertised. In this event, the University will take reasonable steps to minimise the disruption to your studies. If a course is withdrawn or if there are any fundamental changes to your course, we will give you reasonable notice and you will be entitled to request that you are considered for an alternative course or withdraw your application. You are advised to revisit our website for up-to-date course information before you submit your application.

More information on limits to the University’s liability can be found in our legal information.

Our Students’ Charter

We believe in the importance of a strong and productive partnership between our students and staff. In order to ensure your time at Lancaster is a positive experience we have worked with the Students’ Union to articulate this relationship and the standards to which the University and its students aspire. View our Charter and other policies.

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