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Creative Enterprise (Digital Media) Level 4 Professional Diploma

UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma in Creative Enterprise

The Digital Media department delivers a dynamic, innovative, and cutting-edge curriculum for learners progressing toward a career in the digital and creative industries. The UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma in Creative Enterprise in Creative Enterprise gives learners the skills, knowledge and cultural intelligence to develop as creative professionals. Develop skills essential for the creative industries on this one-year course offered at our Colchester Campus.

Students work with a range of regional and local industry experts and employers, responding to live working briefs to hone relevant media industry practice. This prepares our graduates for employment in a growing multi-billion-dollar industry.

Real world skills combined with networking, professional communication and presentation give our graduates a competitive advantage as they enter the next stage of their careers.

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Creative Enterprise (Digital Media) Level 4 Professional Diploma
Qualification: UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma in Creative Enterprise
LevelLevel 4
LocationColchester
DurationOne Year
Study ModeFull-Time
Campus / Adult Skills CentreColchester Campus
Start DateSeptember 2025
Fee(s)18 Year Olds: Free
19+: £4,670
Awarding/Validation BodyUniversity of the Arts London
Course Purpose

This qualification is designed for students who wish to start up their own project or company and wish to explore and extend their creative practice within the creative industries.

It can be used as a starting point for students who have identified a specific project that they wish to work on or to enable them to explore the basis of entrepreneurial activity by developing essential business and management skills in order to identify and respond to business opportunities in the creative sector.

Who is the course for?

This qualification is suitable for students who have an interest in starting up their own projects or company and wish to explore and extend their creative practice via a full-time or part-time immersive learning experience.

The qualification is also appropriate for students wishing to continue their education through applied learning, by locating that learning within a professional context in which they can work alongside industry experts to gain first-hand industry experience.

What will I learn?

This qualification will provide students with an opportunity to cultivate their employability by developing their creative enterprise skills, expanding their industry contact base while developing their start-up projects and professional practice.

The qualification has been developed in collaboration with representatives from industry, universities, further education colleges and employers to ensure it provides students with the skills, knowledge and understanding needed to prepare them for employment, including self-employment and/or support a role in the workplace in the creative industries.

The objectives of this qualification are to give students the opportunity to:

  1. Develop and demonstrate enterprise and entrepreneurial skills necessary to the creative industries
  2. Develop and define their artistic ambitions and creative ideas
  3. Build up their professional practice and independently initiate their creative projects
  4. Achieve a nationally recognised Level 4 qualification
Entry Requirements
  • Satisfactory results (Pass/Merit/Distinction) in relevant Level 3 qualifications (BTEC/UAL or A Levels), supported by 5 GCSEs (9-4) including English and Maths, or Level 2 Functional Skills equivalent
  • A creative media/games design portfolio and an interview
Course Progression

Employment in the creative industry setting up your own creative company or progress directly into employment, in roles such as freelancer, account manager, consultant, talent manager, games developer, animator, director or producer within the creative industries.

This qualification will support you to develop a portfolio of work, enabling you to progress to higher education courses or conservatoires.

Fees and Finance

Students’ college education is funded for three academic years after leaving secondary school in year 11. Please click the button below which will apply to your age on the 31st August 2025 in order to find out more information about fees and finance relating to your course.

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The College reserves the right to update and amend information as and when necessary. Colchester Institute will do its best to provide the courses shown, but may have to modify or withdraw a course depending on customer demand and other factors.

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