BA Creative Writing
About this course
BA (Hons) in English with Creative Writing, combining literary study with creative practice. Core topics include Critical & Analytical Thinking, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Design & Creative Practice. Students can undertake a placement year in the creative industries and complete a Special Project in their final year. Each year, students curate and edit an anthology of creative work and engage with guest authors and industry speakers.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: International Baccalaureate Diploma 30 points. GCSE English equivalent SL 5 or HL 4
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Admissions (2022 entry, home applicants)
Offer rate 87%: 59 offers from 68 applications, from the university's Freedom of Information return.
What students say
Based on about 9 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 86%
- Learning opportunities: 89%
- Assessment and feedback: 95%
- Academic support: 100%
- Organisation and management: 86%
- Learning resources: 88%
- Student voice: 91%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 20 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 70%
- Left higher education: 10%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 20%
What graduates do next
Based on about 13 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 65%
- Working and studying: 15%
- Further study: 10%
- Unemployed: 5%
Most common jobs
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 15%
- Teaching Professionals: 15%
- Sales occupations: 10%
- Elementary occupations: 10%
- Administrative occupations: 5%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 20 graduates, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- North West: 5%
- West Midlands: 5%
- East of England: 10%
- London: 40%
- South East: 45%
- Scotland: 5%
- Northern Ireland: 5%
Who gets in
Based on about 25 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 90%
- Baccalaureate: 5%
- No formal qualifications: 5%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Bronze overall, Bronze for student experience, Bronze for student outcomes.
Modules
- The Writer's Toolkit
- The Reader’s Toolkit
- Fiction 1
- Poetry 1
- Your Degree, Your Future
- World Literature
- Literary London
- Creative Journaling
- Representation and Identity
- Ways of Hearing 1
- Professional Life
- Placements in the Creative Industries
- Genre Fiction
- Fiction II
- Writing Genre
- Life Writing I
- Literatures of Inequality: Global Fictions
- The Novel: The Nineteenth Century
- Literary Movements: Modernism
- Literature and Revolution: Romanticism
- Texts and Afterlives: Shakespeare
- Contemporary Fiction: Britain and Ireland
- Postcolonial Writing
- Screenwriting I
- Poetry II
- Creative Writing Special Project
- Creative Careers
- Fiction III
- Poetry III
- Screenwriting II
- Life Writing II: Journeying the Self through Psychology and Expressive Arts
- Literature, Culture, Society: The Victorians
- Post-War and Late Twentieth-Century Literature 1945 - 2001
- Special Topic: Violence
- Author Study: Jane Austen
- Literature and Identity
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Creative Writing at Brunel University of London earn?
The median salary is £24,500 after 3 years, £29,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £23,500 and £35,000. The £29,000 median after five years is £5,500 more than the UK median for Creative writing.
What do graduates of BA Creative Writing at Brunel University of London 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 Creative Writing at Brunel University of London?
86% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Creative Writing at Brunel University of London?
The typical offer is BBB at A level, or 30 points in the IB. The average entrant had 115 UCAS points.
What is the offer rate for BA Creative Writing at Brunel University of London?
87% of home applicants received an offer for 2022 entry: 59 offers from 68 applications, according to the university's Freedom of Information return.
How many students continue on BA Creative Writing at Brunel University of London?
70% of students continued into their second year, and 10% left higher education.