Music production courses in London
17 schools teach production, DJing or sound engineering in London. Every listing is checked against the school's own pages, with the date shown.
Point Blank Music School
private schoolFounded in 1994, with a 30,000 square foot campus in Shoreditch, London, which the school describes on its own site as brand new. The Office for Students granted pointblank full Degree Awarding Powers with effect from 1 April 2026, so it now awards its own undergraduate degrees and can validate programmes for other institutions. Degrees before that point were validated through Middlesex University, so anyone already partway through a course should confirm which route their own award sits on. Holds TEF Gold from the Office for Students, awarded 2023 (the only specialist music production institute in the UK to do so). Its cheapest standalone course is Piano Keyboard Skills (3 months, £695); most other Short courses (Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Sound Engineering, DJing, Music Business) run £935 to £1,995 for 3 months, Specialist certificates (6 to 9 months) from £4,990, and the BA (Hons) degree route is £9,790/yr for UK students in the 2026/27 academic year.
ICMP
private schoolRunning since 1986 (originally as The Guitar Institute and BassTech before rebranding to ICMP in 2006) across two Kilburn-area campuses on Dyne Road and Salusbury Road. Offers degrees, one-year CertHE courses, and a large slate of part-time evening and short courses in production, performance, songwriting and music business. Won full independent degree-awarding powers from the Office for Students in 2021 and holds TEF Silver (2023) for student experience and outcomes. Its cheapest current option is a 6-week evening Music Production & Mixing course at £199; other evening courses range roughly £249 to £2,250+ depending on length, and the degree/CertHE route is £9,790/yr for UK students. Its BA (Hons) Music Business holds Chartered Management Institute accreditation, which ICMP states is the only music business degree in the UK with it.
Garnish Music Production School
private schoolTeaching since 2009, now from a small studio at 1 Emma Street near London Fields, though Ableton's own directory and several UK business listings still place it at a previous building on Richmond Road, so treat the exact address as in flux. Class sizes are capped at six, with 24-hour student studio access. The flagship Ableton Producer Program runs 120 hours for £3,499; the longer Electronic Music Production Diploma runs 360 hours for £7,499, including two days at Goldsmith Music Studios with professional engineers. Several previously separate short courses (Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Mixing & Mastering, Composition, Vocal Production) no longer carry standalone prices and now route through private 1-2-1 tuition from £1,300 for 24 hours; the cheapest listed product on the whole site is an £899 online songwriting package. London director Aamir Yaqub is billed as a 'Grammy-winning' tutor, though no specific credit is published to back that up.
London Sound Academy
private schoolOne-to-one DJ and production tuition in a Camden studio, trading since 2008/09 (originally as 808 DJ Academy, rebranded 2015). Standard DJ and Music Production courses (4 lessons of 2 hours) run £369 each; Elite DJ, Vinyl DJ and Mixing & Mastering courses are £649; a cheaper £100 two-hour taster session is also bookable. LSA is genuinely listed as a DJ school partner on Pioneer DJ's own website, though its claim to be 'one of the few Pioneer authorised educators in the world' looks overstated; Pioneer's own partner page names several other UK schools alongside it. Named tutors publish real, checkable industry credits, including a 15-year Fabric resident DJ and a producer with releases on Sony RCA and Toolroom.
Abbey Road Institute
private schoolBased at Angel Recording Studios in Islington since 2021, run under license as 'Abbey Road Institute' rather than being the same company as Abbey Road Studios, though its workshops do take place inside Abbey Road's own Studios One, Two and Three under a formal partnership. Its cheapest course is Music Theory for Producers (2-day, £400 per level, up to £1,000 for all three); the Drums Production Masterclass (2-day) is £750, the Song Production Masterclass (4-day) £3,000. The one-year Advanced Diploma in Music Production and Sound Engineering is £17,900 total for UK/EU students (or £16,900 paid upfront), sitting outside the government student loan system. Guest masterclass leaders named on the site include mix engineers Haydn Bendall, Sylvia Massy, Andrew Scheps and Marta Salogni, and Beatles-era Abbey Road engineer John Kurlander, though full individual credit lists aren't published.
LCCM
private schoolFounded in 2002 by musicians Geoff Hemsley and Darius Khwaja, now based at the purpose-built Music Box on Union Street, Southwark, since 2017. LCCM states it was the first UK college to require every student to study performance and production together, and calls itself 'the only music college in Zone 1', a claim worth treating as marketing shorthand rather than an independently verified fact. Since 2018 it has been owned by education group Global University Systems, following a rescue acquisition; this ownership isn't mentioned on LCCM's own site. Degrees are validated by the University for the Creative Arts, at £9,790/yr for 2026/27 (up from £9,535 in 2025/26); postgraduate courses (MMus Music Production, MMus Music Performance, MA Creative Entrepreneurship, MSc Entertainment Management & Analytics) are £10,800/yr. LCCM offers no short-course entry point below full degree level.
Tileyard Education
private schoolEight-week evening short courses run inside the Tileyard complex at King's Cross, in person or online: the online Music Production for Beginners course is £350, the in-person version and the separate Vocal Production course are both £499, all with 12-month interest-free instalment options. Tileyard Education's marketing leans on the wider Tileyard complex's scale ('200+ music businesses' including Apple Music 1, Ableton and Focusrite, and 160 private studios used by artists like The Prodigy and Noel Gallagher), but that description covers the surrounding commercial campus, not Tileyard Education's own course delivery specifically. Its MA programmes (Commercial Songwriting and Production, Music Production) are validated and awarded by Nottingham Trent University via a partnership independently confirmed on NTU's own site, following a 2024 tie-up bringing a 35,000 sq ft NTU campus onto the Tileyard site.
BIMM London
private schoolBIMM London occupies a five-storey, roughly 19,000 sq ft building on Effie Road in Fulham, a short walk from Fulham Broadway tube. It began life in 1983 as Drumtech, founded by Francis Seriau, became Tech Music School, and was rebranded BIMM London after BIMM's 2010 acquisition and 2014 name change. Alongside Manchester, it is one of only two UK BIMM campuses that has run short courses, as 3-day intensives or 6-week part-time evening courses from £299. That programme is paused: checked 28 August 2026, BIMM's short course page states the 2026 courses have finished and the next programme is still being developed, with no dates or prices published, so treat £299 as a historical figure rather than a bookable one. Degrees run £9,790/yr, the same fee BIMM charges UK students at every campus, and are currently the only priced route in. BIMM University overall holds a TEF 2023 Bronze rating and Privy Council degree-awarding powers; Ableton lists the campus as a Certified Training Centre.
SAE Institute London
private schoolSAE's East London campus (SAE House on Kingsland Road, plus a separately-run recording facility, Bankstock Studios, a canal walk away) has operated since 1985 and now offers audio production degrees validated by the University of Hertfordshire, at £9,790 a year over three years or £11,750 a year accelerated over two. The provider (SAE Education Limited, covering all SAE UK campuses, not London alone) holds a TEF 2023 Silver rating. A Mastering Summer School is listed as running at the London site specifically, but still has no published price or scheduled dates, so the degree remains the only currently-priced entry point.
London School of Electronic Music
private schoolSmall-group DJ and production courses (mostly 3 months, from £295/month) plus 1-to-1 coaching from £50/hour, with a free trial webcam hour on offer. Classes run at rented third-party studios (Qube Elephant & Castle, Qube Hackney Wick and Pirate Studios Dalston) rather than a dedicated LSEM venue, so treat any single fixed address as provisional. Tutors carry genuinely checkable industry credits: releases on labels including Klockworks, Soma Records and Sony RCA. Its student label, Fresh Beats Records, has at least one verifiable released EP by an alumnus, plus a Netil Radio show and Bloop London livestream slots. Despite teaching Ableton, LSEM is not listed as an Ableton Certified Training Center, unlike several London competitors. No phone number is published.
London DJ Academy
private schoolA small, founder-led DJ tuition operation based in Peckham, offering one-to-one lessons across eight rented studios around London (the site's own footer lists nine, but one entry duplicates 'Greenwich'). Pricing runs from a £149 two-hour taster to a £549 Artist Development programme, with core DJ courses at £349 for 8 hours. The site names only one instructor, founder Tim Spins, despite marketing copy implying a wider teaching team, and his claimed Ministry of Sound and 'Mixmag top ten parties' credentials appear only on his own promotional site, not independent press. Also runs a separate 'Hire a DJ' event-booking service alongside tuition.
The London DJ School
private schoolRuns 1-to-1 and group DJ tuition nominally 'inside London's top nightclubs' (Egg London, The Cause), though its own booking page for 1-to-1 lessons states those sessions actually happen at Pirate Studios on Pioneer CDJ2000NXS2/DJM900NXS gear. Advertised pricing starts at £39.95 for a 1-hour 1-to-1 lesson, rising to a £175 five-lesson 'Become a DJ' package. As of August 2026, every listed session on the school's own booking pages (including that £39.95 slot) was marked sold out with no new dates given, and parts of the site (the FAQ page, homepage copy referencing paused COVID-era pricing) appear unmaintained since around 2020-21. No Companies House registration, independent reviews, or verifiable tutor credentials could be found beyond the school's own site. Runs inclusion-focused sessions with named partners Sisu (women-only) and BDE (LGBTQIA+-inclusive).
JW DJ Academy
private schoolThe training arm of JW DJ Agency, a London booking agency founded by Jaynee Wilkins. Courses range from £300 beginner workshops to £1,700 intensive House Music, Open Format and RnB/Hip Hop courses (11-12 weeks, groups capped at four). The academy publishes named tutors with specific, checkable credentials (BBC 1Xtra residencies, a DMC turntablism title, Nike DJ endorsements), more verifiable than most rivals in this space. Its central claim, that top students graduate into paid agency bookings, is illustrated by a stated route into a residency at 'Steel Yard' nightclub, but this is asserted only by the school itself. The oft-repeated '100+ DJ roster' figure is unconfirmed: the agency's own live roster page currently lists 46 acts.
ACM London
private schoolACM London is the Clapham outpost of a three-campus network (with Guildford and Birmingham) run under one legal entity, ACM Guildford Ltd, which is also the name on its OfS registration and Bronze TEF 2023 rating, so it's not clear the London site has been separately assessed. Pricing is set nationally: the cheapest option is a £350-a-term part-time evening production course (10 weeks); the Extended Diploma (2 years) is government-funded under 18 or £6,000/year for adults; the 2-year accelerated BA runs £11,750/year, with an optional £9,790 Foundation Year 0. London's pitch leans on real industry links (a stated collaboration with Metropolis Studios and a tutor who is its CEO), though ACM's headline alumni (Ed Sheeran, Matty Healy) predate the London campus and shouldn't be read as London-specific.
Confetti London
private school'Confetti London' now trades as NTU London: this Whitechapel campus delivers Nottingham Trent University degrees, and as of 2026 its own course pages carry no 'Confetti', 'Denizen' or 'Tileyard' branding, a shift from the marketing this listing was originally built on. Music Production is a genuine standalone offering here, not a sound-engineering sideline: NTU runs it as separate BA (Hons) and MA degrees alongside parallel BSc/MSc Sound Engineering degrees. Confirmed current fees are £9,790/yr UK for the BA/BSc, £11,400/yr UK for the MA/MSc. Facilities (SSL Duality/ORIGIN consoles, two Dolby Atmos studios) and named teaching staff with real industry credits are independently verifiable; the earlier Tileyard partnership and Denizen label could not be confirmed as currently live for this campus.
Access Creative College London
private schoolAccess Creative College's London campus opened in September 2023 in a 19,000 sq ft Whitechapel building shared with Confetti (NTU London), which, per Ofsted, is a subcontractor within the same Access Education Group rather than an independent neighbour. Level 3 Music Production (RSL-awarded, two years, £2,882 for 19+ students in year one only; year two's fee is unpublished; free for 16-18s) is a genuine standalone course, one of five pathways London offers alongside Games, Media, Esports and Computing, so it's a broad creative-industries college rather than a music specialist. The wider provider was inspected by Ofsted in May 2026 and rated 'Expected standard' across nearly all areas, with adult access-to-HE achievement flagged 'Needs attention', a provider-wide result covering all 7 campuses, not London specifically. No named tutor bios are published for London.
LMA London
private schoolPart of the Galileo Global Education group, LMA's London campus sits inside Here East on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Its BA (Hons) Music Production and Music Performance & Industry degrees are validated by Regent's University London (TEF Silver 2023) at £9,525/yr, though that Silver rating belongs to the validating university, not to LMA itself, and no TEF or OfS rating for LMA specifically is published. Course pages advertise tutors as 'active industry professionals' but name none. A one-year MA Creative Practice – Music (£9,500/yr, £7,500 for LMA's own alumni) is also offered at London. Founded 2009 as Liverpool Media Academy by brothers Richard and Simon Wallace; former Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy became a shareholder in 2019. A BTEC Level 3 Music Performance diploma is also referenced but no fee is published, and funding is restricted to North-West England residents.
Subjects taught in London: Music production, Sound engineering, DJ, Ableton, Logic. Know a school we've missed? See our methodology for how listings get added.