Rose Bruford College | International

Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance is London's International Drama School. Students from over 40 different countries study with us on our 15 different vocational and professional degree courses, producing over 75 separate productions a year.

We are also one of the UK's top specialist higher education institutions delivering education in a single subject: theatre training.

And for this we currently receive premium funding from government.

We train like a conservatoire and think like a university. We think we deliver the best of both worlds through our unique degree programmes and by providing top-flight training that leads to excellent career prospects.

About Us

The College is located in Lamorbey Park, Southeast London, in beautiful, green grounds just 30 minutes by train from Trafalgar Square and the heart of London’s West End. The campus clusters around the Grade II listed Lamorbey House with modern, purpose-built facilities, including a 330-seat theatre-in-the-round, a 100-seat flexible Barn theatre, two black box studio theatres, spacious rehearsal rooms, recording studios, technical laboratories, design and production workshops, a unique drama library and well-equipped study areas. In 2015 the College will be opening ensuite student accommodations a short walk from campus.

Proud of its history of innovation that saw the Rose Bruford introducing the first university-level BA degree in Acting and the first BA in Lighting Design in the 1970s, Rose Bruford College continues to push the boundaries of training in performance and technical theatre, making it one of the world's leading drama conservatoires and one of the UK's largest in terms of student numbers and the variety of its professional training options. Preparing its acting graduates for a career on stage and screen and design.management and technical graduates for behind the scenes across the wider entertainment industries -- with six separate acting and performance options at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, the largest portfolio of technical theatre and management undergraduate programmes and two online undergraduate degrees -- we train some of the best talents making theatre today around the world.

The College and its teaching staff foster the imagination, talents and creativity of our students, preparing them for rewarding and satisfying careers in challenging, exciting and well-paying industries.Our job is to train but also to help find employment for all our graduates.

Our undergraduate and taught postgraduate degrees are currently validated by the University of Manchester. In January 2017 the College was granted Taught Degree Awarding Powers by her Majesty’s Privy Council. This means that students joining the College from September 2017 onwards, will be studying for a Rose Bruford College degree.