- The curriculum and expertise span seven different areas: performance, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, music psychology, musical industries, and music technology.
- University offer an impressive array of modules, with academic and practical study in most music genres, including classical, pop, jazz, folk and world music and students develop their skills as a musician and music researcher and have the freedom to follow their own interests.
- In philosophy, students will study the cornerstones of the subject including philosophy of language, ethics, metaphysics and logic alongside distinctive specialist modules on topics such as philosophy of education, philosophy of law, philosophy of medicine, film and philosophy, and feminism.