To be eligible to apply for these vacancies, sometimes referred to as Home Places, you will normally be a UK national resident in Scotland or an EU applicant with settled/pre-settled status.If you have any questions about your eligibility to apply for a particular place, please call our Clearing Helpline on 0800 193 7070.
Currently, there are no Home places available through Clearing this year. However, should any places become available, this page will be updated prior to the SQA result publication date of the 5th of August. Please check at the start of August for up-to-date availability for Home applicants.
Applications for 2026 entry will open on UCAS in October. Applications deadlines for entry in 2026 will be published on our website on the How to Apply pages later this year.
If you are looking for ways to strengthen you application to art school next year, you can also explore our preparatory Portfolio Preparation – Creative Practices course which opens for applications in January 2026.
This programme equips students with a skill set in practical software and immersive systems (Augmented and Virtual Reality) development, combining knowledge of how software and hardware digital systems function with modelling and animation skills.
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The Bachelor of Architecture programme leads to an Ordinary or Honours degree and to exemption from Part 1 of the Examination in Architecture of the ARB/ RIBA. It covers design, construction, environmental science, history, sociology, economics, law.
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Communication Design covers three streams - illustration, photography and graphic design. Students explore the traditional skills of drawing, printing, photography and other graphic processes with video, sound and animation.
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This programme aims to create assured fashion design graduates with clear individual and creative identities, specialising in either menswear or womenswear. Students honour and learn from fashion traditions, learning to balance originality of concept with design viability.
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BA (Hons) Fashion Narrative at the GSA is a 3 year programme (direct entry to year 2) aimed at students who are fascinated by fashion concepts and aesthetics, taking a fresh approach to the way that fashion stories are told through text, image and display. Uniquely, it aims to position its graduates in roles that exist at the intersection of art and fashion, working towards futures that add value to the experience of enjoying fashion in culturally diverse and materially enriched ways.
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Students studying Fine Art Photography blend conceptual, aesthetic and technological awareness to create photography in a fine art context. The use of a range of media is encouraged, including photo-mechanical, stills, video and text.
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Games and Virtual Reality
This programme offers students the opportunity to gain an understanding of application development for games and virtual reality, alongside skills for creating engaging and immersive interactive experiences.
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Interaction Design combines technology with visual thinking and creative problem-solving. Students learn to work with creative code to generate engaging interactive digital media for a wide range of platforms.
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Interior Design at the GSA is about enriching buildings to create exciting and practical environments in which people can live and work. Students use traditional methods alongside digital methods of representation, such as CAD, 3D-printing and immersive virtual-imaging.
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International Foundation in Art and Design
This year-long programme is aimed at students whose first language is not English, and allows students from outside Europe to familiarise themselves with the culture and language of the art school studio before applying to creative visual degree programmes.
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The Painting & Printmaking programme is both practical and theoretical, focusing on enquiry and production in a lively studio environment. Students are led by their own research and supported to draw together form, content and contextualisation. The programme aims to equip students with material and technical knowledges, critical insights and tools of communication, supporting them to shape and pursue careers in the visual arts or related cultural fields.
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Product Design provides a future focused and holistic overview of design’s role in society. The programme equips students with a diverse skill set and thorough understanding of design’s evolving role as the creative and strategic link between technology and society. Students have opportunities for international study, and participation in live projects with businesses and public-sector organisations.
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Sculpture & Environmental Art
Sculpture extends beyond the conventional boundaries of object-making to encompass a wide range of contemporary processes and media. Environmental Art prepares students to develop work in relation to sites and contexts beyond the gallery.
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Silversmithing & Jewellery
Silversmithing and Jewellery covers aspects of body adornment and fine metalworking from the development of original design concepts through to the finely crafted finished work.
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Sound for the Moving Image
BDes (Hons) Sound for the Moving Image is a two year degree programme, and applications are welcomed from students entering directly into year 3, with articulation from HND programmes at college, or from mature students with relevant experience. Students begin by recording and constructing soundscapes, then branch out to create original documentary/abstract/narrative film, eventually building interactive audio-visual installations.
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Textile Design is concerned with the design of cloth for interiors and fashion, and is composed of four subject specialisms – print, knit, weave and embroidery. Students use traditional process and digital technology to acquire, integrate and challenge textile practices through studio-based activity and live projects.
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