Program Overview

 You are immersed in the world of music production, working on individual and group projects and compositions, and developing knowledge and skills which build towards your final portfolio. Explore composition, modern technology, creativity, production, collaboration with industry experts, live client projects, guest speakers, research activities and interdisciplinary working. Using our specialist technical resources, you learn how to create, produce, mix and master stereo and surround recordings in our recording studios. And you get to play instruments too – with electric guitars, acoustic and electronic drum kits, amplifiers, and other related sound equipment. You can also break out into making music podcasts.

You graduate with a broad range of experience, knowledge, understanding and skills appropriate to music production. You develop your unique creative voice and produce professional portfolios in both music and sound production in your individual specialism, enhancing your employability. You also get to showcase your skills and collaborate with students from other courses through interdisciplinary modules which replicate workplace environments. And you can get Adobe-accredited user status to enhance your employability prospects.

Top reasons to study music production at Teesside University:

• Specialist facilities: practice and learn in specialist spaces including sound studios, recording studios, post-production suites, audio patch bays, audio workstations and music technology lab.
• Regional opportunities: recent research has identified a cluster of recording, production and post-production studios in the North East region maintaining a presence in the national music and sound production landscape (Music Studio Market Assessment, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, June 2021).
• Expert teaching: our experienced tutors are professionals in music production, so you benefit from their industry expertise and technical know-how. 97.6% of design studies students agreed that staff were good at explaining things. (National Student Survey 2024, tees.ac.uk/source)
• Get creative: our course and campus are powered by Adobe and Apple. We’re Europe’s first Adobe Creative Campus as well as being an Apple Distinguished School for 2024-2027, the only university in the UK to hold this honour. These awards are in recognition of Teesside’s innovation, education excellence and leadership, and mean you benefits from the latest the digital tools and technology, allowing you to hone your creative music production skills.
• Work-ready: the course includes short, career-focused modules helping you understand working in the creative industries. Examine how the music production industry works, how to access it, who shapes it and how to grow within it. From industry leaders’ professional wisdom and insight, to accessing professional opportunities and creative coaching, you become an industry inside leaving with a working understanding of the professional community and a network of contacts .