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If you have any questions, please contact the Registry staff who will gladly assist you. Open Days are arranged by individual departments – see our Departments page for links.
For studies at the Academy starting in September 2012, the main London auditions were between 5th and 16th December 2011. The application deadline was 1st October 2011 (1st November for Musical Theatre candidates).
Auditions in New York were in March 2012, with an application deadline of 9th January 2012, which has now passed. Applications to audition in London for Conducting or for Choral Conducting also had a deadline of 9th January 2012. Those auditions are held during the Spring term.
Auditions at our East Asia centres are now over for September 2012 entry. Please contact the relevant audition representative in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea or Taiwan about applying for 2013 entry.
If you are already studying at the Academy and wish to apply for MA, MMus or Advanced Diploma, you should make a late application using an internal application form, available from the Registry office.
If you wish to audition in London or New York and:
— you are applying to enter Year 1 of our BMus, or
— you are applying to transfer into Year 2 or Year 3 of our BMus, or
— you are applying for a Year-In programme [Gap Year, Year Abroad, Organ Foundation],
— you are applying to enter an MA or MMus or the Advanced Diploma programme
you will need to download, print and post the 
Standard PDF application form. The online application system is no longer available.
Applications submitted after the relevant deadline (see Key Dates) will incur the late fee and will only be processed if there is space remaining in the audition timetable. Fees for applications that cannot be processed will be reimbursed.
If you are are making a late application for Musical Theatre or Musical Direction & Coaching (Postgraduate Diploma), you will need to download, print and post the Musical Theatre PDF application form. The online application system is no longer available.
There is limited space available in the audition timetable. The application fee will be cancelled if we are unable to offer an audition.
To apply for the Master of Philosophy Research Degree, you will need to download, print and post the Research Degree PDF application form. (Doctoral students are always initially registered on the MPhil programme and ‘upgrade’ to the PhD following a formal transfer application in the first or second year. This is standard practice for UK doctorates). The deadline for applications for 2012 has now passed. Details of the deadline for 2013 will be announced when known.
Reference forms for a standard London or New York audition application Reference forms for a Musical Theatre application Reference forms for an MPhil Research Degree applicationInformation about MMus Written Work
Information about Composition Portfolio
If you wish to apply for an Erasmus Exchange study place, please contact the Erasmus co-ordinator in your own institution. It is not possible to apply directly to the Academy.
If you do not live in Europe (including Russian and the eastern Mediterranean), East Asia or North America (USA and Canada), the Academy will accept DVD performances instead of a live audition for most Principal Studies. All recordings had to be received by 1st October 2011 and had to be authenticated by a person of authority. You must complete both the standard London application form and the video form, which is available on request from admissions@ram.ac.uk. Recordings sent to us without the appropriate forms will not be processed. Please note that if you audition by recording, you will not normally be eligible for an entrance scholarship or financial assistance.
If you will need a support letter to help apply for a visa to attend an audition in London, please contact admissions@ram.ac.uk after you have submitted your Academy application. We regret we are not able to support visa applications for travel to New York.
Information about the Academy’s tuition fees is available here. Find out about our scholarships and bursaries provision here.
Please email admissions@ram.ac.uk.
are managed separately by the Junior Academy office.
