Creative Industries

Cardiff is home to a vibrant creative community, with BBC, Pinewood Studios, and a wealth of creative agencies on your doorstep. The huge potential for employment in the area is reflected in 95% of our graduates going in to work or further study within six months of graduating.

Our Subjects

student in classroom using computer and looking at screen with a cgi visual of a man on screen

Animation and Games

A student looks through red and blue 3D glasses at a laptop screen as part of a workshop

Design

A student is working on a tailors mannequin.

Fashion

A student is altering studio lighting equipment.

Film and Visual Effects

A screen and camera can be seen on in a TV studio setting.

Journalism and Media

A student on stage standing at a microphone with a guitar.

Music and Sound

A group of people in a drama studio clapping

Drama and Performance

A lecturer is supervising a lesson, while students set up a professional photoshoot.

Photography

Why USW?

Top in Wales

For new business startups for the 5th consecutive year, and 6th in the UK!

HE Business and Community Interaction (HE-BCI) Survey 2023/24

3rd in the UK for total number of active graduate businesses (1st in Wales).
Named in the Top 50 UK institutions for research power by the Times Higher Education.

Why USW?

96%

of USW graduates are in employment and/or further study 15 months after graduation.

Graduate Outcomes Survey 2021/22

Employability and Careers

3rd in the UK for total number of active graduate businesses (1st in Wales).
Named in the Top 50 UK institutions for research power by the Times Higher Education.

Celebrating Success

Sam Wright, animator and producer at Bumpybox

USW graduates work on BAFTA-nominated films Wallace & Gromit and Kensuke’s Kingdom

Alumni from USW’s Animation and Film courses have worked on some of the most successful films of the past year, including Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, which has won two BAFTAs, and Kensuke’s Kingdom, nominated for Best Children's and Family Film at the awards.

Wallace & Gromit and Kensuke's Kingdom