Love reading? Passionate about books? A career in publishing might be for you.
You’ll be based in our student-led publishing house, UCLan Publishing, which produces and sells professional, commercial books and eBooks for sale on the high street and online, and have 24-hour access to your own, fully equipped space from which you can produce professional quality publications. You’ll benefit from our high level partnerships with publishers such as Egmont UK, Guinness, HarperCollins and Scholastic, with access to work placements throughout the country.
Full time: 3 years Part time: 6 years
Undergraduate
Campus, Full-time and Part-time
BA (Hons)
CLANC C30
P400
Preston (Campus code: U)
September 2018
More information about programme specifications and module information is available in the course handbook.
Full-time: £9,250* per year (UK/EU)
Part-time: £1,540* per 20 credits studied (UK/EU)
Fees for international students
Our typical offer is 104 UCAS Points. We operate a flexible admissions policy and treat everyone as an individual. This means that we will take into consideration your educational achievements and predicted grades (where applicable) together with your application as a whole, including work experience and personal statement.
BTEC Extended Diploma: Merit, Merit, Merit
BTEC Diploma: Distinction, Distinction
Pass Access Course: 106 UCAS Points
International Baccalaureate:Pass Diploma with 104 UCAS points from Higher Level Subjects
IELTS: 6.0 with no subscore lower than 5.5
GCSE: 5 at grade C/4 including Maths & English or equivalent
The University offers a range of scholarships and bursaries to support you through your studies.
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Points calculatorIn your final year, you will have the opportunity to specialise in an area that interests you – for example, children’s books, literary fiction, poetry, science fiction . . . the choice is yours! You will also have the chance to undertake a work placement organised for you by our excellent tutors.
UCLan Publishing, the only student-run, trade but not-for-profit publishing house in the world - winners in the 2018 T.H.E. Excellence and Innovation in the Arts award.
UCLan Publishing is breaking the mould of how a publisher usually operates, empowering students to ‘learn on the job’. This year the team has enlisted big name authors such as Jaqueline Wilson, Jane Johnson and A J Hartley, to give the students experience of big trade, commercial publishing. A J Hartley’s book, Cold Bath Street, was promoted through UCLan Publishing PR and has become a national bestseller, with Waterstones taking it as a promotional title nationally.
We organise work placements for students at many publishing houses including HarperCollins, Bloomsbury, Manchester University Press, Oxford University Press, Bounce, Priddy Books, Hachette, Thames and Hudson and many more.
To learn more about our School and the range of courses within it, go to our homepage. If you’d like to learn more about the successes and awards experienced by our students, staff and alumni, visit our news page.
UCLan Publishing won the award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts at the Times Higher Education Awards 2018 for UCLan Publishing, the only student-run, trade but not-for-profit publishing house in the world.
A 3 year degree qualification typically comprises 360 credits and each 20 credit (a standard module) equates to 200 hours of study, which comprises of a mixture of lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical sessions and independent study. Independent study is an important aspect of your degree course. The exact combination of study time will be detailed within your module descriptors, and will depend on your option choices.
We are the only University with a fully operating, student-led publishing house, UCLan Publishing, which produces and sells professional, commercial books and eBooks for sale on the high street and online. The publishing house is a unique space which is entirely owned by the publishing students and which can be accessed 24 hours a day.
All students get the chance to be involved in the activities of the publishing house including making books, sales, marketing and events.
Final year undergraduate and postgraduate journalism students have the opportunity to get involved in our annual cJAM employability event. cJAM shakes-up the traditional career fair format and gives UCLan students face-to-face time with up to 30 successful industry professionals all of whom have come to the event with the offer of valuable work placement opportunities. The cJAM event format consists of four main components:
In 2018, there were four cJAM events and a total of 320 placements were awarded. All of which enabled our students to establish credible links in line with their career aspirations. To find out more about cJAM: Journalism, see the video and read the press release.
Our BA Publishing course has input from many industry professionals. All lecturers who teach on the course have come from an industry background and retain their links with the book business. For example, Debbie Williams spent most of her career as Head of Children’s Book Buying at Waterstones Head Office, a role which involved organising all of the midnight launches for Harry Potter as well as buying all of the children’s and educational books for the chain. Alexa Gregson has worked in the industry for many years and was Sales Executive for Palgrave Macmillan. Wayne Noble is an expert in digital publishing and is currently doing his PhD tracking online behaviours.
High-standing industry professionals visit the course regularly and sit on assessment panels. For example, Barry Cunningham (the man who discovered Harry Potter at Bloomsbury), David Roche (Chair of the London Book Fair) and Jane Johnson (Editorial Director of HarperCollins and Game of Thrones editor) are fellows of the University and visit the students several times a year.
We are currently involved in a high level research partnership with the largest children’s publisher in the world (Egmont) looking at the link between reading for pleasure and academic success.
Our unique undergraduate publishing course is designed to give you as much experience of working in a real publishing house as possible. UCLan Publishing is run entirely by students and is not for profit. Getting involved in all aspects of the publishing house gives students the training and experience they need to enter the competitive world of publishing.
We have a sister course – MA Publishing – which students can progress to after completing the BA Publishing programme
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This course is based in the School of Journalism, Media and Performance
For detailed information about studying this course at UCLan, please see the course handbook for your year of entry:
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For changes to 2017 UCAS tariff entry requirements please see our Essential and Important Course Information. UCLan requires all undergraduate applicants to have a minimum attainment of five GCSEs at grade C and above, or equivalent, (including Maths and English). In 2017 and beyond we will view the new Grade 4 as being equivalent to a C grade and will therefore require students to achieve GCSE Grade 4 or above. However, if the subject is relevant to our degree programme and requires a higher GCSE grade (e.g. GCSE B grade), and/or includes a Professional body that governs the entry requirements, Grade 5 or above may be required.