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University degree

Photography

South Essex College of Further and Higher Education
Qualification
Degree
Length
3 yrs
UK fees / yr
£9,535
Study
full-time
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About this course

The BA (Hons) Photography course provides students with a broad knowledge and experience of photography and post-production techniques across a range of genres approaches and contexts, building knowledge and the experience required to become a confident and successful image maker within photography creative media and fine art. Photography is an exciting creative profession that is continually undergoing changes in response to significant technological developments and the resulting demands from both established and new emerging media that enable creative content to be widely distributed and consumed by a potentially vast audience.

Could you get in?
The grades students arrived with
No past-entry data for this course.
How they qualified
90% got in with A-levels. The rest came in a mix of ways:
A-levels90%
an Access course10%
Could I get in? Try your grades
120 UCAS pts
Pay & prospects
80%
In work or further study after
90%
Continue past first year
97%
Student satisfaction
What graduates earn over time
£25,000
After 15 months
£18,500
3 years on
£22,500
5 years on
What graduates actually go on to do % of leavers
Business and public service associate professionalsHighly skilled15%
Sales occupations15%
Web and Multimedia Design ProfessionalsHighly skilled5%
Administrative occupations5%
Teaching ProfessionalsHighly skilled5%
Process, plant and machine operatives5%
Media ProfessionalsHighly skilled5%
Artistic, literary and media occupationsHighly skilled5%
What students say National Student Survey
97%
of students are satisfied with the course overall
Teaching98%
Assessment & feedback95%
Academic support98%
Well organised95%
Learning resources82%
Student community93%
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