Arts University Plymouth

The University provides creative education at undergraduate, postgraduate and pre-degree level, specialising in the fields of art, design, crafts and media.

Students are enrolled from the local area, the wider south-west region, and further afield in the United Kingdom.

Together the school and college have established a radical and progressive continuum of creative learning and practice in the region that extends from early years to Masters level study.

In autumn 2020, the first cohort of undergraduate and postgraduate students graduated from Plymouth College of Art with an award accredited by the institution.

[16] The university has since awarded honorary fellowships to artist David McKee, Toby Gorniak MBE, filmmaker Bela Tarr, Pablo Helguera, curator Anne Barlow, Jo Arscott, ceramic artist Clare Twomey, Professor Penny Hay, artist George Shaw, Zowie Broach, artist Kurt Jackson, Peter Jenkinson OBE, Sir John Sorrell CBE and Lady Frances Sorrell OBE, and Sir Nicholas Serota and Richard Deacon CBE,[17] Mike Westbrook OBE, musician, as well as photographer Suki Dhanda and former Director of Plymouth Arts Centre Bernard Samuels, and more.

[citation needed] Arts University Plymouth Students' Union, usually abbreviated "AUP:SU" is based at the Tavistock Place campus.