Close

English Literature with Creative Writing (with Foundation Year)

BA (Hons)

UCAS code: Q3WF

Start dates: September 2025 / September 2026

Full time: 4 years

Part time: up to 11 years

Location: Headington

School(s): School of Education, Humanities and Languages

Overview Course details Careers Entry requirements How to apply Tuition fees
next or previous

Find a course

Expand

Overview

“The only way to find your voice is to use it.” – Austin Kleon

On this course, we’ll help you do just that.

English Literature with Creative Writing with a Foundation Year starts with learning essential skills to prepare you for degree-level study. Passing this foundation year leads to our English Literature with Creative Writing BA which will provide you with a solid grounding in literature and the space to explore your own creative writing abilities. You’ll experiment with new forms and genres and push yourself as a writer and a reader. You’ll discover new strengths, areas of interest and new passions. 

You’ll also shape your writing by studying different literary voices and how they’ve been influenced by the issues of their time. And through workshops led by your tutors, you’ll examine some of the most pressing issues of today, thinking about how they impact your own writing style.

Ours is a supportive community. We’ll help you develop the skills you’ll need to succeed not just as a writer but also as an engaged citizen of the world.

Order a Prospectus Ask a question Attend an open day or webinar

Students using library computers

Why Oxford Brookes University?

  • Perfect preparation

    Build essential study skills with an integrated foundation year. Gain academic confidence, improve critical thinking, and strengthen subject knowledge for your degree journey.

  • Academic and creative

    Study the greats to become one yourself. We give you the knowledge and space you need to explore your creative talents. 

  • Close-knit group

    Join a supportive community where thoughtful feedback is valued. 

  • Expert academics

    Lecturers are professional creative writers with close links to the publishing industry.

  • Follow your passions

    We offer a wide range of modules to choose from, covering everything from Shakespeare to contemporary American literature.

  • Learn a language

    Our university-wide language programme is available to full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students on many of our courses, and can be taken as a credit on some courses.

  • Study abroad

    Spend a semester or a year learning in another country and culture, absorbing inspiration to bring back with you.

Course details

Course structure

In your foundation year, you will study a Foundation in Humanities, building confidence and essential academic skills.

In the first year of your degree, you’ll focus on building key skills that will unlock your potential for the rest of the course. As you develop as a writer, your peers and tutors will share feedback in a supportive environment. You’ll discover the rich literary history and culture of Oxford, and you’ll investigate globe-traversing literature of travel and exploration. 

In the second year, you’ll learn what it takes to write across genres, from travel writing to science fiction. You will explore two core themes: literary responses to the environment, and literary transgression and rebellion. 

In your final year, you will produce a significant creative writing project of your own. You'll learn about how to submit your written work to publishers, magazines and to literary competitions. We'll help you to become the writer that you want to be. You will be supported in developing your confidence and capabilities, enabling you to become a highly skilled graduate. 

Student typing

Learning and teaching

You’ll learn through a mixture of lectures, seminars, tutorials and independent learning. 

In lectures you’ll learn the core themes of each module, giving you a strong understanding of the course and preparing you for assessments. 

In seminars, you’ll learn in small, select sessions. These encourage in-depth discussion with your fellow students, allowing you to clarify uncertainties and explore your own ideas.

In tutorials, you’ll meet individually with your seminar tutor. You’ll receive one-to-one feedback and support on your:

  • work 
  • upcoming assessments 
  • any aspects of the module you may want help with 

Independent learning allows you to produce a project or piece of writing on a topic that really grabs your interest. You’ll have the support of our expert lecturers. 

Assessment

Your assessments will be creative and collaborative. They’ll really make the most of your skills - wherever your strengths lie and whatever your learning style.

You’ll develop and submit pieces of creative writing each semester, refining your skill as a writer. These can be in any format you choose - from poetry, to screenplays, to flash fiction, to memoir.

You might also do literary projects that relate to key societal movements or issues - like climate change, Black Lives Matter or the Hillsborough disaster. 

Assessments will also involve independent written work such as essays, literature reviews and blogs. You will also have opportunities to produce short presentations, your own literary tour, and creative visual assessments such as craftwork, posters and games. 

The assessments are designed to help you develop your confidence in using a wide range of skills, preparing you well for your future career.

Study modules

All modules are subject to availability in any given academic year.

Teaching for this course takes place face-to-face. In your foundation year, you can expect around 10 hours of contact time per week. In addition to this, you should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. When you begin your degree programme, you can expect around 6 hours of contact time per week. In addition to this, you should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. Teaching usually takes place Monday to Friday, between 9.00am and 6.00pm.

Contact hours involve activities such as lectures, seminars, practicals, assessments, and academic advising sessions. These hours differ by year of study and typically increase significantly during placements or other types of work-based learning.

Foundation Year

Compulsory modules

  • Being Human: Love, Sex and Death

    Love, sex and death - how do these make us human? In this module, you’ll gain core analytical skills, key to studying Humanities at university, as you explore human bodies and emotions through time. 

    You’ll understand the ideas, practices and experiences that we have around bodies and feelings. You’ll also explore how bodies and emotions are shaped by: 

    • politics
    • religion
    • science
    • medicine
    • literary and artistic fashion.

    You’ll analyse texts, images and artefacts to understand the core role of human emotions and bodies in our world. 

  • Cultural Moments

    How do genres - styles or categories of literature - grow from major events in history and culture? In this module, you’ll explore how drama and literary studies relate to genre. You’ll get to grips with genres as categories that have evolved historically to become key influences on culture, taste and fashion. You’ll investigate real life cases of key movements across a range of disciplines. You’ll also consider how art responds to life and life to art. 

  • Language, Vision and Representation

    In this module, you’ll learn about basic theories of meaning-making. You’ll begin to undertake a critical analysis of systems of representation - which could be spoken or written language, and virtual or physical texts. You’ll come to understand how meaning is made, but also challenged, through acts of interpretation which often we’re not conscious of making. You’ll also be encouraged to reflect on your own role in producing ‘meanings’. 

  • Research Project

    This module gives you the chance to do independent research on a topic that fascinates you. You’ll gain the key skills you need to succeed as a university student, as you create, manage and complete your own research project. You’ll have one-to-one guidance  from an expert academic supervisor in your chosen subject area who will support you to shape your research from your initial ideas through to your completed project. 

  • The Reflective Learner

    In this module, you’ll gain the core skills and strategies you need to succeed as a university student. You’ll build up knowledge of each of the subjects within your foundation year and learn how to turn critical reading into clear and successful undergraduate assignments. You’ll also learn effective study strategies, including: 

    • learning from lecture content 
    • taking part in seminars 
    • working and studying in groups.

  • Nation and Identity

    What is a nation? Do nations develop through shared language or the history of a people? Are they about laws and governance, or habits and customs? In this module, you’ll get to grips with core themes from subjects, including: 

    • Sociology
    • Politics and International Relations
    • History
    • Philosophy
    • English Literature.

    You’ll develop a strong understanding of the concepts of a nation (including elements such as borders and national identity) and its challenges.

Optional modules

  • Customs, Icons and Symbols

    Explore the study and understanding of Culture and Society by looking at relevant Customs, Icons and Symbols with a particular emphasis on communicative practice of reading and written language in contexts.

  • Development Studies

    This is your opportunity to explore some of the key issues (e.g.urbanisation, poverty and social exclusion, environmental concerns and gender issues) within the field of Development Studies. You’ll also look at the factors causing poverty in countries defined as less developed. 

    Exploring the fundamentals of how sociology, human geography and economics interact in the process of development. You’ll study key topics that will teach you to draw on your own knowledge and experience where possible to evaluate the policies in pursuit of development, and to address the problems faced by least developed countries. You’ll build your skills in identifying and reflecting on some of the key social, economic and environmental issues that challenge sustainable development.

  • Political Philosophy

    How is political opinion, authority and democracy shaped and influenced? In this module, you’ll explore foundational issues in political philosophy through exploring the main political ideologies.

    You’ll start your journey with Liberalism as the default position in the West since the English, American and French Revolutions. Your focus then shifts to the ideologies that arose in response to Liberalism, including:

    • Conservatism
    • Communism
    • Fascism
    • Communitarianism
    • Anarchism
    • and Feminism. 

    You’ll also consider questions linked to the theory of knowledge, such as can any ideology be rationally justified?

  • French Beginners 2

    As someone with a beginner’s knowledge of French, you’ll develop strong skills in French speaking and writing, translating and interpreting. You’ll be able to express yourself effectively in French, and gain a critical sensitivity to the intercultural differences between France and other countries. 

  • Spanish Beginners 2

    As someone with a beginner’s knowledge of Spanish, you’ll develop strong skills in Spanish speaking and writing, translating and interpreting. You’ll be able to express yourself effectively in Spanish, and gain a critical sensitivity to the intercultural differences between Spain and other countries. 

  • Origins of the Climate Crisis: A Global History of the Environment

    You will engage with the ways in which the environment and the climate have changed over the past six centuries, looking at:

    • sustainability
    • climate change
    • and conservation.

    These are pressing issues with a rich and compelling history. You will investigate environmental changes and how they were contested and experienced at communal, national and international levels. You'll think about the political, economic, social and cultural contexts of resource management, energy use, and food production, including a focus on future policy solutions.

  • Global Issues

    What is ‘global politics’? What do we mean by ‘international relations’? And how do our personal values affect our understanding of politics and historical events? In this module you’ll explore the global challenges we face, and how they are understood by different groups. You’ll examine issues like power structures and global conflict. And you’ll come to understand how these issues impact societies and the environment we live in.

  • Creating Criminology 2

    On this module, you'll build your sense of a criminology community through collaborating and planning a criminology newsletter. This will help you take ownership of your criminology studies. 

    You'll get to use alumni as interviewees for your Criminology newsletter. You'll also engage with discussions for your future after university, and where you can make a positive impact.

  • Young Children's Outdoor Learning

    In this module, you’ll explore how young children learn through play. You’ll also discover how adults plan exploration and play for children in outdoors environments. You’ll get to grips with two key areas: 

    • maintaining good provisions and interactions in an early years outdoors area
    • teaching and learning through the Forest School approach. 

    You’ll look at how children and adults interact in a variety of situations. You’ll also gain core knowledge of health and safety training, as you study issues such as: 

    • children as risk-takers
    • off-site travel
    • maintaining a safe environment.

    You’ll develop core analytical skills as you explore how research and the government affect children’s outdoor learning. 

  • Modern British Art

    In this module, you’ll dive into art and artists through the century - from the Camden Town Group, to Modernists like Barbara Hepworth and Pop Artists like Peter Blake. You’ll examine paintings, sculptures and films as you discuss how British artists tried to create modern forms of expression. You’ll also investigate the ways they promoted their work, like:

    • exhibitions
    • manifestos
    • books
    • little magazines.

    You’ll enjoy on-site visits, where you’ll examine works of art firsthand. You’ll also attend exciting lectures and seminars where you’ll explore your ideas and enrich your understanding of modern British art.

Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Creative Writing 1: Voice and Craft in Poetry and Prose

    In this module, you’ll enhance your abilities as a creative writer. You’ll participate in workshops where you’ll learn through reading, writing, discussion and feedback. You’ll practise your own writing, explore the interplay of creativity and craft, and analyse how you work as a writer. You’ll join other students in exploring approaches to crafting poetry and prose, through:

    • practical writing exercises
    • discussing each other’s work
    • critically analysing the work of published writers
    • exploring key writing practices.

    You’ll produce a portfolio of original creative writing, as well as a study of the aims and processes of your creative work. You’ll develop excellent writing habits, and the ability to reflect on your own writing practices. You’ll also understand the literary and cultural contexts of your own writing.

  • Reading for Meaning

    In this module, you’ll develop the tools you need to succeed in university-level literary study. Working through a series of short literary texts and extracts, you’ll develop skills in: 

    • close reading 
    • critical analysis 
    • research
    • essay writing 

    You’ll be taught in small groups, enabling you to get to know your classmates and tutor, and allowing you to explore your ideas and those of others. You’ll also be supported in developing positive study habits and self-management skills.

  • Reading Wonderland: The Literature of Oxford

    In this module, you’ll investigate Oxford’s rich literary life, both past and present. You’ll dive into texts written, performed and set in Oxford, as you think about how the city’s literature is shaped by its geography, population and reputation. You’ll read established texts and writers, as well as literature outside of centres of power and privilege. You’ll think critically about yourself and your own writing and analysis, in relation to the city’s spaces. You'll spend some time getting to know your new home by walking around it, and you'll be asked to create your own guided literary tour of the city.

  • Shakespeare Now

    In this module, you’ll explore Shakespeare’s work not only as a cornerstone of English literary tradition, but as a global phenomenon. You’ll delve into Shakespeare’s language, themes and genres through recent interpretations and adaptations in performance, film and visual art. You’ll enhance your understanding and analytical skills as you explore the cultural context in which Shakespeare wrote. You’ll develop new insight into Shakespeare’s impact in the past and his ongoing relevance across the globe today.

     

  • Theory, Writing and Power

    In this module, you’ll get to grips with core elements of literary criticism and theory. You’ll debate pressing critical questions, and develop your awareness of issues that are key to understanding literature and society. You’ll build on the knowledge you’ve gained in your other introductory English Literature modules and you'll learn to think carefully about yourself and your place in the world. You’ll develop your knowledge of:

    • a range of theoretical and critical concepts
    • how these concepts can be applied to literary texts from different periods 
    • how these theories relate to issues of language, culture, and textuality

    You’ll cover one text over two weeks, engaging with a new theory or critical framework each week. You’ll gain skills and insights that you’ll be able to use throughout your whole degree.
     

  • Literature of Travel, Exploration and Exile

    In this module, you'll engage with representations of travel, exploration and exile across a wide range of genres. You will explore personal and socio-political motivations for journeying, relationships between places, cross-cultural encounters, identity and ideology. Topics will vary from year to year, but may include: 

    • The ‘quest’ narrative
    • Colonial travel
    • Voyages of scientific discovery
    • Forced displacement, such as deportation, enslavement, and migration/refugee journeys
    • Literature of nomadic peoples/travelling communities
    • The ‘road trip’
    • Fantasy travel and imaginary voyage

    You will also explore formal structures and features of travel writing.

  • Diverse Americas: Modern and Contemporary American Literature

    American culture is central to what we read, watch, and buy, but how much of America are we seeing? In this module, you'll engage with a variety of North American literature. You’ll explore work by Latinx, Asian-American, Native American, LGBTQ+ and women writers from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. You will deepen your awareness of cultural diversity and develop your understanding of the different kinds of values, power, privilege, purposes and cultural capital attributed to different literatures, peoples and literary voices in North America.

Optional modules

  • Media and Crime

    How does the media police our morals as a society, and define our ideas of acceptable behaviour? In this module, you’ll gain the critical skills to analyse popular representations of crime in the media. You’ll examine news reports and other forms of mass-media. And you’ll develop a knowledge of crime as a cultural construct. 

  • Contemporary Societies: Structure and Change

    In this module, you’ll investigate the changing face of society. You’ll discover how states, economies and societies interact with each other. You’ll explore how markets and welfare states have transformed over time. You’ll also investigate key questions on politics and power, exploring different political systems. You’ll explore pressing global topics, including:

    • international migration patterns
    • the formation of ethnic minorities
    • religion in modern society
    • the challenges of climate change

    You’ll study a wide range of social issues arising all over the world, and develop insight into how these issues impact individuals and groups.

Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Creative Writing 2: Exploring Genre, Form and Style

    In this module, you’ll develop your talent and range as a creative writer. You’ll build on the skills you gained in your Creative Writing 1: Voice and Craft in Poetry and Prose module in Year 1. You’ll experiment with a number of forms and prose styles, including:

    • crime writing 
    • travel writing 
    • science fiction
    • historical fiction

    You’ll also explore techniques of writing poetry through forms such as the ballad and the sonnet. You’ll enhance your creativity, and reflect on your creative choices, as you critically examine what you and your fellow students write.

  • Literature and Environments: Pastoral to Climate Fiction

    Students will develop an understanding of the way humans and non-humans shape and are shaped by their environment, and how this is reflected and explored in literature. You’ll study a variety of genres and kinds of writing across different eras and cultures. This may include:

    • classical pastoral 
    • eco-poetry 
    • climate fiction 
    • non-fiction nature writing
    • speculative fiction

    You will explore the historical, social and political issues that influence written representations of relationships with the environment, and consider the formal and stylistic features of this writing. You’ll apply and extend this learning through a community engagement project involving literature and environments.  

  • Transgressive Texts: 400 years of breaking the rules

    In this module you’ll consider what it means for texts to break the rules. You’ll learn the ways that literature has transgressed social, cultural and formal literary boundaries and conventions. This may include topics such as:

    • Censored and banned texts
    • Gender, sexuality and transgression
    • Literature and protest
    • Modernist and avant-garde transgression
    • Genre blending and subversion

    You’ll examine shifting ideas of transgression in different historical periods, and will explore how these ideas are shaped and altered by cultural, aesthetic, legislative and scientific factors. Through these investigations, you will explore the power of literature to challenge authority and influence today's world.

Optional modules

  • Research Methods in Literature and the Digital Humanities

    In this module, you’ll learn how to use leading and transferable tools and techniques within textual studies and digital humanities. You’ll explore, experiment with, and develop expertise in using different digital archives, tools and software for literary study. You’ll develop skills in: 

    • research
    • creative thinking
    • project planning
    • digital literacy
    • information handling

    You’ll apply and extend these skills by designing and undertaking innovative, small-scale research investigations into literature and other cultural artefacts.

  • Inventing the Future

    In this module, you will study literary and media expressions of future visions of the world. You will examine fictional and theoretical versions of the future from the nineteenth century onwards. You will explore:

    • dystopias and utopias 
    • relationships between humans and technology 
    • human and nonhuman futures
    • diverse and divergent futures

    You’ll enhance your capacity to conceptualise different futures. You’ll also develop your understanding of the issues influencing how and why we project different visions of what our world may become.

  • Angels & Demons in Romantic and Victorian Literature (1789-1901)

    This module will introduce you to the Romantic and Victorian periods through the theme of the supernatural. You’ll investigate the radical technological, social and scientific changes during these periods, and the new uncertainties which arose from these changes. You will discover how writers and artists explored the resultant challenges to established certainties and distinctions between faith and doubt, good and evil, and right and wrong, through their portrayal of metaphorical angels and demons. You’ll study a range of novels, short stories, plays and poems, and different kinds of writing, such as Gothic novels and poems and Sensation novels.

  • American Literature: Origins and Legacies

    In this module, you will study a range of American literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present day, and consider their historical and cultural contexts. You will develop detailed knowledge of the literature and culture of America, exploring key topics such as: 

    • race and ethnicity, especially in Black and Native American writing
    • slavery and its legacies
    • American self-mythologising and national identity
    • the effect of the Cold War on American writing
    • the Harlem Renaissance

  • Fairy Tales and Children’s Literature: Archetypes, adaptations and effects.

    This module enables you to develop your critical understanding of fairy tales, and of young children’s literature more broadly from its first Golden age in the Victorian period to the present day. You will also explore the formal workings of these stories, with a focus on elements such as: 

    • retellings and adaptations 
    • illustrations
    • narrative techniques
    • formal experimentation 

    You’ll also consider the ideological and socio-political influences upon how such stories are revised and adapted as they travel across different eras and cultures.

  • Professional Practice

    In this module, you will develop your insight into the working world by undertaking work-related learning, such as a work placement or project. You can experience and engage with employment environments and enterprise-related opportunities. This module enables you to undertake personal and professional development challenges beyond the conventional academic setting, and to develop your graduate skills and competencies. Previous placements and projects have been provided by Oxford University Press, Oxfam, the Oxford Literary Festival, and the Story Museum. Students have also worked for magazines, video games companies, schools, and well-known commercial brands.

  • Independent Project

    This module gives you the chance to do independent research on a literary topic that fascinates you. With the supervision and support of a lecturer, you will design your own project, choosing your own topic and approach. You will study your selected topic in depth, and will demonstrate your new critical understanding through an assessment method of your choosing, such as a blog, a video documentary, a long essay, a performance, or a report. You will develop skills in project planning, self-motivation, critical and creative thinking and research.

Optional Placement Year

Optional modules

  • Year Abroad

    This module offers the opportunity to study abroad, experience a new culture, and apply your skills in different contexts to enhance your employability. It will help you develop self-management, cross-cultural communication, and interpersonal skills.

    You’ll receive support to secure a place at a partner institution abroad, where you can choose modules related to your degree or explore new areas that complement your studies.

    Studying at an international university will help you enhance your interpersonal skills through cross-cultural communication with students and tutors, allowing you to build lasting relationships. You'll also improve your study skills by focusing on your chosen areas of interest, gaining valuable international experience that will strengthen your CV.

    This year abroad module lasts for one academic year and is taken after the conclusion of your second year of study, once you’ve completed all your level 5 studies. Your year abroad is not credit-bearing.  

Final Year

Compulsory modules

  • Creative Writing 3: Towards Professionalism and Publication

    In this module, you’ll meet literary agents and editors as you explore the submissions process for publication. You will produce a 6000 word piece of writing on a theme or idea that interests you, refining your writing practices. You’ll consider how this piece could work as part of a larger published work, for example as chapters of a novel or memoir, or poems, short stories or essays within an anthology, developing your understanding of how a book works as a whole. 

  • Major Research Project in Creative Writing

    In this module, you’ll produce a writing project, born of your passions, extended research and creative decision-making. You’ll enhance your creativity and craft as you edit and revise your piece, reflecting on constructive feedback from your supervisor. You’ll also produce a commentary on the challenges and choices you faced in your writing process, helping you become more critically aware of your creative practice.

Optional modules

  • Critical Citizenship

    In this module, you will explore how literature relates to broader concerns of what it means to be an active citizen in local and global communities. You will explore relationships between literature and citizenship in a range of social, political, cultural and located senses. You will consider: 

    • what we understand by the term ‘citizenship’ 
    • how literature can forge new social and cultural ways of thinking
    • how knowledge of literature might allow us to be more critical citizens

    Through this module, you will explore the value of literature in understanding and addressing the global challenges of the 21st century.

  • Advanced Independent Project

    This module is similar to the Independent Project Module available in Year 2, but requires a higher level of knowledge and more extensive study. This module gives you the chance to do independent research on a literary topic that interests you. With the supervision and support of a lecturer, you will design your own project, choosing your own topic and approach. You will study your selected topic in depth, and will demonstrate your new critical understanding through an assessment method of your choosing. You will develop skills in project planning, self-motivation, critical and creative thinking and research. Unlike the Major Research Project, which is also available in Year 3, this module takes place over the course of just one semester.

  • Advanced Options 1

    This module gives you the chance to study specialist areas of literature in depth. The topics available are drawn from the research expertise of your tutors, enabling you to engage with leading insights and approaches in the field. Available topics may alter from year to year, but recent topics have included:

    • Experiencing Shakespeare
    • The American Civil War in Literature, Memory and Myth 
    • Literature and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 

  • Advanced Options 2

    This module gives you the chance to study specialist areas of literature in depth. The topics available are drawn from the research expertise of your tutors, enabling you to engage with leading insights and approaches in the field. Available topics may alter from year to year, but recent topics have included:

    • Urban Jungle: the American City in Modern and Postmodern Literature and Culture
    • Women and Modernism
    • Literature and Madness

  • Advanced Options 3

    This module gives you the chance to study specialist areas of literature in depth. The topics available are drawn from the research expertise of your tutors, enabling you to engage with leading insights and approaches in the field. Available topics may alter from year to year, but recent topics have included:

    • The Victorian Supernatural
    • The Theatrical City
    • Video Games, Digital Narratives and Interactive Texts 

Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.

Careers

The skills you’ll develop on the BA (Hons) English Literature with Creative Writing (with Foundation Year) degree are highly transferable and are prized by employers across many sectors. While some graduates go on to become published writers, many others go into other industries such as: 

  • publishing
  • PR, marketing and communications
  • NGOs and charities
  • research
  • teaching
  • higher education
  • media and journalism.

Recent graduates have gone on to work for employers such as Oxford University Press, the British Museum, Duckegg Theatre and Blue-Zoo Animation Studio.

Entry requirements

Wherever possible we make our conditional offers using the UCAS Tariff. The combination of A-level grades listed here would be just one way of achieving the UCAS Tariff points for this course.

Standard offer

UCAS Tariff Points: 48

A Level: DD

IB Points: 24

BTEC: PPP or MP

Further offer details

Applications are also welcomed for consideration from applicants with European qualifications or international qualifications. For advice on eligibility please contact Admissions: admissions@brookes.ac.uk

International qualifications and equivalences

How to apply

Application process


Full time Home (UK) applicants
Apply through UCAS


Part time Home (UK) applicants
Apply direct to the University


International applicants
Apply direct to the University

Full time international applicants can also apply through UCAS

Tuition fees

Please see the fees note
Home (UK) full time
£5,760 (Foundation); £9,535 (Degree)
Home (UK) part time
£720 per single module (Foundation); £1,190 per single module (Degree)
International full time
£16,750
Home (UK) full time
£5,760 (Foundation); £9,535 (Degree)*
Home (UK) part time
£720 per single module (Foundation); £1,190 per single module (Degree)*
International full time
£17,250

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

Tuition fees

2025 / 26
Home (UK) full time
£5,760 (Foundation); £9,535 (Degree)
Home (UK) part time
£720 per single module (Foundation); £1,190 per single module (Degree)
International full time
£16,750
2026 / 27
Home (UK) full time
£5,760 (Foundation); £9,535 (Degree)*
Home (UK) part time
£720 per single module (Foundation); £1,190 per single module (Degree)*
International full time
£17,250

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

+44 (0)1865 534400

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

*Tuition fee level for 2025-26. Tuition fees for home undergraduate students in 2026-27 will be confirmed by the Government later in 2025 and will be updated on our website as soon as the information becomes available.

Please note, tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.

For further information please see our 2025-26 tuition fees FAQs.

Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students.

The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support. 

How and when to pay

Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.

  • For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
  • For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page

Additional costs

Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.

Funding your studies

Financial support and scholarships

Featured funding opportunities available for this course.

Oxford Brookes Bursary for Continuing Students Undergraduate maintenance loans for part-time UK students Undergraduate maintenance loans for full-time UK students Undergraduate tuition fee loans for UK students Oxford Brookes Bursary for New Students

All financial support and scholarships

View all funding opportunities for this course

Information from Discover Uni

Full-time study

Part-time study

Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been published on the website. For more information, please visit our changes to programmes page.