Commercial Music (Professional Placement Year) BA (Hons)

**A vocational Music course for songwriters, producers and performers who want to turn their passion into a career.**<br/><br/><br/>- Develop your talent and flourish. We focus on original creativity.<br/><br/><br/>- Build your Music career through personal development and industry engagement.<br/><br/><br/>- Benefit from our experience. Our staff have music industry experience at a high level.<br/><br/><br/>If you have a flair for original musical ideas, our Commercial Music course can take you on a creative journey to inspire and define a lifelong career. You’ll write original material alongside exploring identity, promotion and the wider music business - the context of your music.<br/><br/>Some of our graduates are signed artists. Others work for record labels, in music publishing, in the entertainment business, or across the digital sector.<br/><br/>**More about the Professional Placement Year**<br/>A Professional Placement Year (PPY), traditionally known as a sandwich year, is where you undertake a period of work with an external organisation for between 9-13 months. The placement occurs between your second and final years of undergraduate study. You can engage in up to 3 placements to make up the total time and are required to source the placement(s) yourself, with support from the Careers team.