BA (Hons) Fine Art - Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Moving Image

Robert Gordon UniversityAberdeen, United Kingdom

Course overview

Our Fine Art course will develop and expand your critical aptitude, creative skills, and professional acuity in preparation for your future career as an artist. You will explore a range of subjects through the disciplines of drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and moving image and the creative investigation and application of both analogue and digital methodologies.

Key highlights

Covers drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and moving image
Combines analogue and digital methods in creative investigation
Develops critical aptitude alongside creative and professional skills
Prepares students for a professional career as an artist

Entry requirements

Scottish Highers: BCC — to include Art & Design (or a creative design and/or media subject e.g. Graphic Comm
A-level: CC — to include Art & Design (or a creative design and/or media subject e.g. Media Studies
International Baccalaureate: 24 — to include
Additional condition: interview — All applicants with the appropriate qualifications (or due to sit appropriate qualifications) will be invited to attend a portfolio review/interview and participate in a selection process.
Additional condition: portfolio — All applicants with the appropriate qualifications (or due to sit appropriate qualifications) will be invited to attend a portfolio review/interview and participate in a selection process.
International Baccalaureate: 27 — to include
Scottish Highers: CCC — to include to include Art / Design (or a creative design and/or media subject such as Graphic C; minimum (widening access) offer

Scholarships

Alumni Discount
A 20% discount is provided exclusively on tuition fees and not to any associated course costs.
Up to 20% of fees
International Students Emergency Fund
The fund aims to help students with basic living costs such as food, utilities and rent.
RGU Early Deposit Payment Discount
Self-funding students paying an international fee joining in the September 2026 intake who pay their deposit will receive an additional £500 discount.
Up to £500
RGU Golf Scholarship
Up to £8,500 per year
RGU International Student Discount for Undergraduate Students
£2,000 discount on each year of study of undergraduate tuition fees.
Up to £2,000
RGU SPORT Scholarship
Financial assistance is awarded to support travel, training, equipment and competition expenses accrued during the academic year.
Vice-Chancellor's Undergraduate Scholarship

Careers this course leads to

Practising artist
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Moving image artist
Gallery or arts programme coordinator

Cost of study

UK/Home: £1,820 (Scotland), £9,535 (rest of UK) | International: £18,940

Admission

Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Robert Gordon University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.

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