Music production courses in Liverpool
5 schools teach production, DJing or sound engineering in Liverpool. Every listing is checked against the school's own pages, with the date shown.
SAE Institute Liverpool
private schoolSAE Institute Liverpool now spans two sites (the original Georgia House on Pall Mall and a newer campus at The Spine in Paddington Village), offering the same Audio Production BA/BSc (Hons) as SAE's London, Leeds and Leamington Spa campuses: £9,790/yr over 3 years or £11,750/yr on a 2-year accelerated route, validated by the University of Hertfordshire since 2022/23 (previously Middlesex University). The only current short courses are taster sessions in Game Audio Design and Introduction to Filmmaking, booked through a separate storefront that doesn't surface Liverpool-specific pricing. SAE's marketing invokes Radiohead/Beck producer Nigel Godrich as a past student and touts Ableton as an 'industry-standard' tool, but Liverpool, like SAE's other UK campuses, isn't on Ableton's own list of Certified Training Centres.
LMA Liverpool
private schoolPart of Galileo Global Education, LMA's Liverpool campus occupies upper floors of the Metquarter shopping centre, an 8-minute walk from Lime Street station. Its BA (Hons) Music Production costs £9,525/yr for UK students and is now validated by Regent's University London, the school's third validating partner since 2016, after earlier franchise deals with Staffordshire University and the University of Northampton lapsed. LMA calls its facilities 'world class,' though the course page itself only specifies 'professional recording studios' running Logic Pro X, Ableton Live and Pro Tools, with no independent accreditation (e.g. an Ableton Certified Training Center listing) to back the claim. Founded in 2009 by brothers Richard and Simon Wallace, LMA later took on Robbie Williams as a 20%-stake co-owner in 2019; student forum reviews are mixed, with recurring complaints about overcrowded studios and inconsistent feedback alongside some positive accounts. No cheaper short course or taster session is published. Unlike some rivals, LMA doesn't appear to sell an entry-level product below the full degree price.
ICMP Liverpool
private schoolICMP's newest campus opened in September 2025 at Georgia House in the Baltic Triangle, a building it shares with SAE Institute's own Liverpool campus, plus extra teaching space at The Spine in the Knowledge Quarter. Degrees include a BA (Hons) Creative Music Production and a BA (Hons) DJ & Electronic Music Production, at £9,790/yr for UK students, pricing set centrally across ICMP's London, Leeds and Liverpool sites rather than specific to this campus. The short-course catalogue previously listed evening courses from £249, but several of those course pages now redirect to ICMP's storefront homepage rather than a priced listing, so that floor price should be treated as unconfirmed pending a fresh check; confirmed 2026 Liverpool short courses include a 12-week evening Introduction to DJing and a 5-day Artist Development Summer School, both £399. Students get performance access to The Cavern Club and The Jacaranda, where The Beatles played their first gig under that name in 1960. ICMP holds a TEF Silver rating, but it was awarded in 2023, two years before this campus opened, so it reflects group-level outcomes rather than anything Liverpool-specific.
Liverpool John Moores University
universityThree-year BSc (Hons) Audio and Music Production at LJMU's Byrom Street campus (4 years with a paid industry placement, or a study-abroad alternative), taught within the School of Engineering rather than a dedicated music department, covering studio production, live sound, podcasting and broadcast mastering. UK fee is £9,790/yr for 2026/27, rising to £10,050/yr in 2027/28; the university's public fee pages don't list a course-specific international figure. Programme leader Dr Sebastian Chandler-Crnigoj holds a 2020 LJMU PhD on binaural/3D audio testing and has published research on audio-zoom beamforming and deepfake-audio detection: solid academic credentials, though more research- than industry-practitioner-facing. LJMU cites graduates going on to BBC Radio 4, Sky, ITV, Channel 4 and Bauer Media, but these are the university's own marketing claims, unverified independently, and no independent accreditation body (JAMES, AES) was found to cover the course.
Liverpool Hope University
universityBA (Hons) Music Production runs from the Capstone Building on Hope's Creative Campus, Shaw Street, at £9,790/yr for UK students in 2026/27 (rising to £10,050/yr for 2027/28). A Foundation Year variant is listed at the same £9,790 rate, though Hope doesn't itemise it separately from the standard-year fee, so that parity is worth re-checking each cycle. The curriculum runs Studio Recording, Live Sound Engineering & Performance and DAW Composition strands through to a Year 3 research project, backed by an SSL Nucleus control surface and full microphone suite. Discover Uni doesn't publish outcomes for the single-honours course itself; the closest available data, for the joint 'Music and Music Production' pathway, shows a small cohort (15 entrants) with only 65% continuing past year one and course organisation the lowest-rated NSS category at 45%, figures worth treating as indicative rather than definitive, since they're not for this exact course.
Subjects taught in Liverpool: Music production, Ableton, Logic, Sound engineering, DJ. Know a school we've missed? See our methodology for how listings get added.