Ready to earn a university qualification on your own terms? Our Open College of the Arts undergraduate degrees provide an accessible, practical, and deeply rewarding way to study from home. Through our flexible distance learning model, you can choose a subject-specific BA (Hons) pathway to master a single discipline, or select our Creative Arts degree to blend multiple creative practices into one unique journey.
- Open Access: You don’t need specific prior subject qualifications to apply, meaning you can start studying something you may have been interested in for years but haven’t been able to pursue.
- Flexible Study: Multiple enrolment points throughout the year for our degrees so can begin your studies whenever you are ready. Set your own pace with our generous completion timeframes, or choose between full and part-time study for our Film and Media Production Cert HE.
- 100% Portfolio Assessment: Submit your assignments for dedicated tutor feedback first, giving you the unique opportunity to develop and refine your portfolio before submitting it for formal academic credit.
- Financing Your Future, Your Way: Enjoy a flexible approach to both learning and financing. Our degrees are delivered and paid for on a unit-by-unit basis, and undergraduate courses are eligible for government tuition fee loans.
Explore our undergraduate courses below and take the next step toward your creative career today.
Degrees
BA (Hons) Creative Arts
Explore our truly multidisciplinary creative arts degree for an exciting journey through diverse artistic forms.
BA (Hons) Creative Writing
Discover your voice as a writer and learn the tools to craft the works you’ve always wanted to create – whatever the genre.
BA (Hons) Drawing
Question your ideas of what drawing can be on our online drawing degree, and discover your creative potential.
BA (Hons) Fine Art
An online fine art degree sees you acknowledge and learn from tradition whole pushing forward in contemporary practice.
BA (Hons) Graphic Design
Explore the creative world around you on our graphic design degree, and develop your unique graphic design practice.
BA (Hons) Illustration
Explore book, editorial, commercial and graphic novel illustration – and beyond! – on our broad-ranging illustration degree.
BA (Hons) Interior Design
Study an online interior design degree with OCA to explore how you can discover the full potential of different spaces.
BA (Hons) Music
The only online music degree programme of its kind in the world, delivered through distance learning with OCA.
BA (Hons) Painting
Our online painting degree helps you develop your core skills, methods and approaches in the many practices of painting.
BA (Hons) Photography
Our highly popular online photography degree will help you advance in (or even begin!) your photographic journey today.
BA (Hons) Textiles
An online textiles degree with OCA offers a rich exploration of surface, pattern, texture and materials in many forms.
BA (Hons) Visual Communications
An online visual communications degree will give you the skills and tools to communicate with any given audience.
Certificates & Diplomas
Film and Media Production
Are you passionate about filmmaking, media production and creative storytelling?
The Open College of the Arts (OCA), in collaboration with The Open University, is excited to launch our brand new Certificate of Higher Education (CertHE) in Film and Media Production.
Whether you’re an aspiring filmmaker or someone who simply loves the magic of cinema, this course will introduce you to the dynamic world of film and media production.
Certificate of Higher Education Film and Media Production“OCA offers flexible study conditions, a wealth of learning resources and the supportive one-to-one relationship with a tutor. The OCA has an excellent balance between theoretical content and practical application.”
Lina Homer, Visual Communications Student
Distance Learning
Discover how remote learning could work for you.Degree Course Timeframes
Freedom to study on your own terms.