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39 Master's degrees offered by the university

Print from Royal College of Art positions Print focuses on print and the technical image from the perspective of contemporary art practice.

Writing
Students of the Writing programme at Royal College of Art explore a variety of forms and subjects, often blending genres and approaches to create work that is both intellectually rigorous and poetically expressive.
Design
Design Pathway from Royal College of Art builds design research skills that can be deployed within academic and professional careers. We foster innovation and tackle complex systems and social challenges, from the future of work to the circular economy, climate change, AI and healthcare.

Research
The Research at the Royal College of Art is a one-year, full-time programme designed to elevate your research capabilities. This degree fosters interdisciplinary exploration across various fields, enabling students to develop their unique research projects under expert supervision.

Contemporary Art Practice
Join our vibrant Contemporary Art Practice from Royal College of Art community of high-performing, ambitious and exploratory artists

Architecture
Architecture from Royal College of Art offers offer a supportive community in which to explore contemporary issues and transform your approach to spatial practice. Learning through lectures, seminars, tutorials, readings, and workshops led by a diverse set of practitioners and thinkers with unique experience and expertise.

Digital Direction
At Digital Direction from Royal College of Art will equip you to be a creative thinker, maker and leader in your chosen field.

Communication
The Communication programme at Royal College of Art combines the choice of college wide electives with the structure of focused core units, so every student has a unique journey.

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.