Diploma · Postgraduate Diploma
Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Studies
Royal Northern College of Music · Royal Northern College of Music · Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Official award
- Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced StudiesPGDip
- Subject
- Music PerformanceComposition (concentration)
- Format
- On campus1 year full-time
- Tuition
- Not published
About this program
A one-year diploma in performance or composition for applicants who already hold an MMus or equivalent.
- Department
- Royal Northern College of Music
- Awarding body
- Not stated on the pages we checked
Award and subject
The award is shown exactly as the institution titles it. A program belongs to a subject only through the link below: a dedicated degree, a named major, a formal concentration or a documented pathway.
- Official award
- Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced StudiesPGDip
- Award family
- Postgraduate DiplomaA Postgraduate Diploma, listed with its own title. It is not a master’s degree.
- Qualification level
- Diploma
- Qualification standing
- Academic qualificationA degree, or a certificate or diploma awarded by a degree-awarding institution within a national qualifications framework.
- Orientation
- Orientation not published
- Previous degree required
- Yes
| Subject | Relationship | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Music Performance | Dedicated degreeThe official program title is in this subject. | |
| Composition | Documented pathwayA program whose official page documents a pathway in this subject. | CompositionHow students choose it is not published“601F: Performance; 620F: Composition”Source |
Accreditation, validation and recognition
Recorded for this program and campus, with the authority’s role. Institutional accreditation, degree-awarding authority, program accreditation, professional validation and national qualification registers are different things.
No program-level accreditation or validation record has been verified yet. That does not mean none exists; check the national authority and the institution.
Study structure
- Delivery
- On campusTaught at the listed campus.
- Study mode
- Full-time
- Duration
- 1 year full-time
- Intakes
- Not published
- Campus
- Royal Northern College of Music124 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9RD
Teaching language
- Taught in
- English
- English
- English teaching not verifiedAn English-language website does not mean a program is taught in English.
Admissions
- Audition
- Audition required
- Portfolio
- Portfolio requirement not published
- Interview
- Not published
- Deadlines
- Application Deadline 1 Oct 2026 · this date has passed; check the current cycle
Fees and costs
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per year, per credit, whole program), academic year and student category, and is never converted. Annual tuition and whole-program tuition are different figures.
The institution does not publish tuition for this program on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and whether lessons, accompanists, practice rooms, instrument hire, software, recording, recitals, travel and residency costs are extra.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: tuition, intakes, accreditation or validation record.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 25 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 25 October 2026)