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31 Master's degrees offered by the university

Visual Communication MA (Graphic Design, Illustration & Experimental Communication)
Visual Communication MA (Graphic Design, Illustration & Experimental Communication) from Royal College of Art is the shared commitment to ‘conversational practice’. By this we mean a practical and discursive approach to making. We see communication as essentially, a conversation to form bridges, to connect people and to exchange ideas.

Environmental Architecture
As part of the Environmental Architecture programme from Royal College of Art , you’ll engage with live projects at sites of complex environmental change.

Arts and Design
The Arts and Design programme from Royal College of Art will help you expand your practice, refine your portfolio, and open new futures.

Innovation Design Engineering
The Innovation Design Engineering program at Royal College of Art is about transformation. Transformation of the practices that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Transformation of the understanding of how the past, present and future can identify opportunities to create lasting impact.

Fashion
Fashion from Royal College of Art asks for a disruptive critical approach, leading to new aesthetics and responses about the practice and industry of fashion.
Communication Design
Communication Design Pathway from Royal College of Art will introduce you to practice-led and experimental research processes, methods and methodologies that inform communication design research. You’ll position your research within a social, historical, cultural and theoretical discourse through proven research methods and by engaging critically with reflective practice and evaluation.

History of Design
Studying History of Design from Royal College of Art you'll develop your research skills and be inspired by future-facing approaches from design history. Our students explore diverse and global topics from fashion and textiles history to graphic, architectural and urban design.

Arts and Humanities
Ready to deepen, reset or activate your existing creative practice across a global network? In this Arts and Humanities programme from Royal College of Art, you could be looking at health and care, spatial practices, experimental arts or AI and digital or affective infrastructures. Whatever the theme, you’ll be considering how to address future challenges.

City Design
City Design from Royal College of Art is more than just designing physical structures. It’s about how we live together, work, and move.

Jewellery and Metal
Jewellery and Metal from Royal College of Art develops your creative jewellery and metal practice within the material- and research-led processes of Applied Art.
Architecture
Architecture Pathway from Royal College of Art offers training in practice-led and practice-based research methods, complementing the shared arts and humanities research methods taught across the College as part of the MRes RCA.