Newcastle University
Folk and Traditional Music
BA (Hons), 3 years
Typical offer rate
78–88%
high entry
Grad employment
95%
15 months after
In professional roles
60%
Median grad salary
£22,000
15 months after
Newcastle University's folk and traditional music degree is a BA focused on the performance, history and ongoing evolution of folk and traditional musical traditions. Students develop their instrumental and vocal practice while engaging with ethnomusicological questions about how these traditions are transmitted and transformed. An offer is likely for applicants who meet the grades.
How hard is it to get in?
The typical applicant to Folk and Traditional Music at Newcastle University has a 78–88% chance of an offer, high by UK standards. That baseline is course-typical. Your own chance depends on your grades, subjects and the rest of your profile.
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Estimate my chancesAbout Newcastle University
Newcastle is a Russell Group university with a large campus in the heart of the city, strong in medicine, science and the humanities in the north-east.
Full details and how to apply are on the university's official course page: Newcastle University · Folk and Traditional Music
Offer rate and graduate-outcome figures are course-typical baselines derived from UK admissions and HESA data; they are estimates, not guarantees. Your personalised offer likelihood is calculated in the Unimetrica app.