This programme has been designed for those students who wish to combine a professional education in electronics with an understanding of the internal design and function of contemporary music technology systems. It provides training for the next generation of audio engineers, and designers of electronic musical instruments, studio equipment and audio systems. This is an area with a vast opportunity for creativity and innovation. The programme provides a solid basis in engineering as applied to music and audio systems, and although not “musical” in the sense that there is no formal development of performance skills, the programme includes detailed material on synthesiser technology, MIDI, sampling and audio signal processing, and provides hands-on opportunities to learn how this technology is applied in recording studios and in field recording projects.

Careers and employability Employment prospects for our graduates are excellent and they are very well regarded in industry. Industry Many of our students find jobs in related industries and in all sizes of companies from multi-nationals to small businesses. However, they graduate with strong mathematical, computing/programming, team working and technical management skills that are an integral part of our programmes. This means that they also have access to a very wide range of potential career paths outside of the more obvious ones, for example financial service industries which require creative people with strong mathematical and programming skills.