Bachelor of Creative Industries

You can’t pigeon-hole creativity. That’s why QUT has designed a degree that combines a range of interdisciplinary skills. The Bachelor of Creative Industries lets you dive into a melting pot of amazing possibilities and absorb the aspects of creativity that are right for you. It sets you up with skills and experiences to create your own opportunities and career outcomes in the creative sector and beyond.

Flexible delivery

The course offers flexibility by allowing you to choose a combination of study areas to suit your individual creative interests and career aspirations. Start your degree in either February or July, and study full-time for three years or the part-time equivalent. 

You can choose your first major from:

• Creative and professional writing - gain skills and knowledge in the areas of creative or professional writing, including fiction, creative non-fiction, media writing, and corporate writing and editing. 
• Drama and performance (not available for students commencing in 2025)
• Fashion communication - learn how fashion is communicated, marketed and distributed across a diverse range of contexts and media.  This major prepares you for current and future careers in  the global fashion industry.
• Interactive and visual design - learn skills and knowledge in the domain of interactive and visual design, including graphic design, image making, information design, web design and designing interfaces for future technologies.
• Media and communication (not available for students commencing in 2025)
• Music and sound (not available for students commencing in 2025)
• Screen content production - develop a range of knowledge in the theory and practice of film and screen, including creative, technical, storytelling and communication skills to set you up for a career in advertising, publicity or marketing.

To complement your chosen major, you may select a second major. All the primary majors listed above can be studied as second majors as well as advertising, integrated marketing communication, marketing, public relations, entrepreneurship and innovation, games design, online environments and property experience.

Alternatively, you can add minors electives from across QUT to your chosen major to develop a wide breath of knowledge across several discipline areas.   

Double degrees

Combine two bachelor degrees into a single course of study. A double degree allows you to specialise in two fields and pursue different interest areas, gaining a broader range of skills and knowledge, and giving you a competitive advantage and greater career flexibility. This is a popular option for students seeking careers in support roles within the creative industries, or those wanting to work in creative, design or communication roles within other industries.

Consider a double degree with Creative Industries in:

• Business to gain knowledge and skills to add business acumen to creative endeavours, and creative flair to traditional organisations. Careers include entertainment industries producer, events manager, creative entrepreneur or social media marketer.
• Law where your creative industries and legal qualifications position you for a career as an in-house lawyer for cultural institutions, government or regulatory bodies, or as a lawyer with special interests in creative industries.
• Human Services (Health) and use your expertise in careers in youth arts, disability arts, rehabilitation in corrective services, or community and cultural development.
• Information Technology merging your creative and imaginative skills with sophisticated and innovative critical thinking will give you opportunities in content production, communications, graphic design and games development.

Careers and outcomes

This course equips you with the creative skills, knowledge and connections to pursue a career in the creative industries and beyond. Some career options are:

• Creative technologist – combine an interactive and visual design major with additional studies in either public relations or marketing. Collaborate with production and marketing departments to realise creative solutions and enhance the digital user experience.  
• Screen and media producer – major in creative and professional writing and screen and content production as a second major, to prepare for corporate and community policy development.  
• Media content producer – major screen content product with an interactive and visual design minor and develop an identity aligned with web based and multi-platform screen project development. 
• Fashion supply chain manager – major fashion communication alongside interactive and visual design and learn about textile and product development.  
• Marketing and promotions – study business area studies alongside your Creative Industries major to prepare for employment within marketing and promotions within film distribution, fashion wholesaling or digital design and arts. 
• Teacher – follow your studies with a Master of Teaching (Secondary) for a meaningful career teaching the next generation. Check the Master of Teaching (Secondary) course page for entry requirements and pre-requisites.  

On successful completion of this course, you will be eligible to apply for entry into the Master of Teaching (Secondary), Master of Design (Strategic Design), Master of Digital Communication, provided you meet the entry requirements.