Applying for BA (Hons) Popular Music, Songwriting and Performance.

Your UCAS application

BA (Hons) Popular Music, Songwriting and Performance applications, like all UK based university applications, are made through the University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). You will need to register with ucas.com to create an application and then add a course (or courses) as a choice to that application.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to submit a recorded track and/or video of a live performance of your work. This submission enables our admissions team to assess your current musicality, creativity, and technical skills, as well as your overall suitability for the course.  

To add BA (Hons) Popular Music, Songwriting and Performance as one of your choices:

1. Sign into your UCAS hub
2. Select your application, or start an application if you have not already done so
3. From your application, click the blue ‘Add Choice’ button. You’ll then be greeted with a pop-up box with a number fields to complete
4. Under University/college name, select ‘University of Lancashire’. Rather than typing the whole name manually, you can just start typing ‘Lancashire’ for it to create a shortlist to speed things up
5. Under Course, start typing the name of the course and then select it. It will appear as: Popular Music, Songwriting and Performance J281
6. Under Location, select ‘Spirit Studios’
7. Under Start date, select the date at which you want to start the course
8. You can leave the Further details section blank
9. Select the year of the course you want to start under ‘Point of entry’. Most applicants will select ‘1st Year’. Contact us before applying if you are planning a later point of entry
10. Select whether you’ll be living at home while studying or not
11. Click Save. You’ve now added a course as a choice to your application. Repeat the above for any other courses you wish to add to your application

Demo of adding BA (Hons) Popular Music, Songwriting and Performance as a choice: