The at Oxford Brookes University covers popular music and contemporary composition as well as fresh and challenging approaches to classical music. Our programme strikes a balance of academic and vocational skills, preparing our graduates for a wide range of careers in the music industry and beyond.
Oxford Brookes has many music societies, offering excellent extra-curricular performance opportunities. Oxford is home to leading historic and contemporary concert venues, where you can perform and enjoy a wide range of music.
Career prospects
Our graduates are good team players and team leaders, who have taken up positions in the record industry and the media, arts administration, teaching, the civil service and business. Others have continued their study at postgraduate level.
A music degree develops general skills appropriate for careers where a lively, questioning and organised mind is required, whether inside the 'music industry' or in other areas of work. 100% of our graduates are in employment or further study 6 months after graduation.
Recently music graduates from Brookes have found employment with:
- Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (business management)
- Welsh National Opera (performance)
- concert promoters Music at Oxford and Oxford Contemporary Music
- administrative and managerial roles at the Royal Academy of Music and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM)
- international publishing companies such as Faber Music, Boosey & Hawkes and Oxford University Press
- secondary schools in the region and beyond, eg Merchants' Academy Bristol and Didcot Girls School
- BBC Radio.
