BA Drama and English
About this course
BA in English and Performance and Design for Theatre and Screen, combining drama with English literature. Core topics include Research Methods. The course is taught jointly by departments of theatre, film and television studies and English and creative writing. Practical projects include the Studio Theatre Project, Devised Performance Project, and the School Shakespeare Project.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB-CCC IB: 30-26
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Real offers for this course
Applicants have posted 1 UCAS decision for BA Drama and English (WQ44) at Aberystwyth University for 2027 entry so far. The published offer is BBB at A level.
What students say
Based on about 33 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 91%
- Learning opportunities: 93%
- Assessment and feedback: 89%
- Academic support: 94%
- Organisation and management: 87%
- Learning resources: 89%
- Student voice: 86%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 40 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 85%
- Left higher education: 15%
What graduates do next
Based on about 12 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 60%
- Working and studying: 25%
- Further study: 5%
- Unemployed: 10%
Most common jobs
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 15%
- Sales occupations: 15%
- Elementary occupations: 15%
- Media Professionals: 10%
- Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 55%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 45%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 35%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 95 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 1%
- North West: 11%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 4%
- East Midlands: 8%
- West Midlands: 22%
- East of England: 3%
- London: 6%
- South East: 10%
- South West: 7%
- Wales: 28%
Who gets in
Based on about 45 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 90%
- No formal qualifications: 5%
Modules
- Studio Theatre Project
- Theatre in Context 1
- Theatre in Context 2
- Ancestral Voices
- Critical Practice
- Acting: Process and Performance
- Body, Voice, Perception
- Literature And The Sea
- Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- Shakespeare in Performance
- Directors' Theatre
- Theatre and Contemporary Society
- 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
- A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- Creative Arts at Work
- Devised Performance Project
- Literary Geographies
- Literary Modernisms
- Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- Literature since the '60s
- Place and Self
- Shaping Plots
- Theatre Production Project
- Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- Independent Research Project
- Independent Research Project
- Playwriting
- Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- Contemporary Drama
- Haunting Texts
- Literatures of Surveillance
- Music Theatre Dramaturgies
- New Media Performance
- Performance and Architecture
- Post-Colonial African Literature in English
- Reading Theory / Reading Text
- Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
- Victorian Childhoods
- Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Drama and English at Aberystwyth University earn?
The median salary is £24,000 after 15 months, £17,000 after 3 years, £22,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £19,500 and £27,500. The £22,500 median after five years is £6,500 less than the UK median for English studies.
What do graduates of BA Drama and English at Aberystwyth University do next?
90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Drama and English at Aberystwyth University?
91% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Drama and English at Aberystwyth University?
The typical offer is BBB at A level. The average entrant had 104 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA Drama and English at Aberystwyth University?
85% of students continued into their second year, and 15% left higher education.