Creative Advertising, BA (Hons)

Learn to produce ‘Ideas That Work’ from the teachings of creative advertising professionals. On this degree, tutors nurture individuality through collaboration in a creative environment that models an authentic agency. Develop your skills, gain hands-on experience, and even pitch for real business.Our tutors have considerable industry experience spanning art direction, copywriting, and branding. They will support you to understand advertising so that you can use what you discover to inform and develop your own work. We spend time working with students one-to-one, giving constructive feedback, and nurturing creative potential in a learning environment modelled on a real-life agency.Our students pitch and win placements in advertising agencies to develop a rounded understanding of the global industry. We work with leading national and international agency partners such as McCann, Ogilvy, DentsuMB, Havas, AKQA, Droga 5, Golley Slater, Anomaly, 21 Grams, CULT London, and TBWA. These links maximise your exposure to industry practice.You’ll have the opportunity to enter prestigious international competitions which have included D&AD New Blood Awards, YCN, The Drum Chip Shop Awards, and AdVenture in past years. Top agencies offer coaching, mentoring, work critiques, live briefs, workshops, competition briefs and work experience.Creativity sits at the core of our offer, and we encourage originality and innovative thinking. Our ‘Actively Creative’ philosophy helps you experience first-hand creative challenges developed in-house and through our industry contacts. We have a focus on employability and helping you to produce the strongest portfolio possible to secure your ideal job.