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34 Master's degrees offered by the university

Film Studies
The Film Studies programme offered by The University of Edinburgh is a long-established and stimulating programme that allows you to explore central concepts in the development of film-philosophy and film theory with an emphasis on European and American cinema.

Digital Design and Manufacture
The Digital Design and Manufacture programme from The University of Edinburgh will prepare you for a career in this rapidly changing industry by combining an advanced knowledge of the digital technologies employed in advanced manufacture with key entrepreneurial skills.

Advanced Sustainable Design
The Advanced Sustainable Design programme at The University of Edinburgh engages with architecture, design and planning but interested applicants can apply with degrees outside of these fields.
Classical Art and Archaeology
This Classical Art and Archaeology programme at The University of Edinburgh offers you the opportunity to study the ancient Greek and Roman worlds from the Iron Age to the late Roman/early Christian period through their material remains.

Graphic Design
The Graphic Design course The University of Edinburgh is designed to provide you with new directions and insights. We will help you navigate this rapidly changing industry, foster social responsibility, build and construct new connections to shape your future career.

Architectural Conservation
Whether you are approaching the field from an architectural, historical, social or other viewpoint, this Architectural Conservation programme at The University of Edinburgh will guide you through the foundations and challenges of this important means of nurturing cultural identity.

Interior, Architectural and Spatial Design
The Interior, Architectural and Spatial Design course at The University of Edinburgh is designed to support you in establishing your own approaches in defining interiors and interiority, supporting you to lay the foundations for your own path through the opportunities this field of knowledge and practice presents.

Contemporary Art Theory
The Contemporary Art Theory programme from The University of Edinburgh encourages practices that are speculative and reflective, developing artistic research on, and in, a range of media, sites and organisations.

Acoustics and Music Technology
Taking the science of sound as your focus, you’ll work in a cross-disciplinary environment. In the Acoustics and Music Technology programme at The University of Edinburgh you will use theoretical and experimental work to explore the musical, technical and multimedia applications of acoustics and audio technology.

Intermediality - Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue
The one-year Intermediality - Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue programme from The University of Edinburgh draws on world-class teaching and research expertise across media, from literature to film, music, painting, photography and visual culture more widely.

Landscape Architecture
Taught by dedicated academics and practitioners, you will actively engage with urgent socioecological questions through site-specific and design-led learning. You will explore how to formulate meaningful design responses in our time of crisis with the Landscape Architecture course at The University of Edinburgh.

Design For Change
The Design For Change course at The University of Edinburgh is an exciting interdisciplinary programme which seeks to holistically address complex global challenges such as ageing populations, disruptive technologies, economic instabilities and inequalities, conflict and displacement and environmental degradation and injustices through design-led interventions.

Design Informatics
Design Informatics creates a meeting point between data, culture and design. We imagine alternate futures, disrupt thinking and play with data as a material. The Design Informatics programme is offered at The University of Edinburgh.

Design and Digital Media
The Design and Digital Media course from The University of Edinburgh offers the best of studio-based design learning and provides opportunities for you to develop skills and insights in the creative use of design practices and technologies for digital media across a range of uses and platforms.

Film Art
The Film Art course at The University of Edinburgh is jointly taught between Edinburgh College of Art and Paris College of Art. The programme explores independent film-making through creative collaborative practice combined with reflection and research in contemporary cinema. You will specialise in fiction, experimental or expanded forms of filmmaking.

History of Art, Theory and Display
The History of Art, Theory and Display programme at The University of Edinburgh offers you the opportunity to explore the history and theory of art and its display in exhibitions and museums across a wide range of historical and geographical boundaries.

Global Premodern Art - History, Heritage and Curation
The Global Premodern Art - History, Heritage and Curation programme of The University of Edinburgh invites you to join one of the largest and most diverse concentrations of medieval, renaissance and early modern art historical expertise in the UK. Together, we will uncover neglected narratives and scrutinise assumptions that have often served as the foundations of art historical scholarship.

Musicology
The Musicology programme from The University of Edinburgh offers you the opportunity to explore a wide range of approaches in music scholarship, and to engage in contemporary debates about what music is, how it works, and why it is such a fundamental and significant part of human culture.

Composition
The Composition programme at The University of Edinburgh seeks curious, open-minded, adaptable and highly creative individuals who are keen to acquire new skills and consolidate their existing knowledge across all areas of new music creation.

Architecture (ARB, RIBA Part 2)
The Architecture (ARB, RIBA Part 2) programme at The University of Edinburgh offers a unique studio-based and research-led learning experience.