21 Visual Design MA Degree Programs

By blending creativity with cutting-edge tech, on MA Visual Effects for Live Events, you’ll gain in-demand skills in digital imagery and visual effects, opening doors to careers in virtual production, film, TV, gaming, and beyond.

The Master of Arts Degree Program in Visual and Innovation Design is a two-year artistic specialization designed to launch designers beyond the boundaries of traditional graphic design limitations. The course provides training and preparation for students to competently create visual communication, using a blend of multimedia design, visual design, and advertising skills.

Art in the Contemporary World is a taught masters programme that examines contemporary art practices and their contexts. The course offers an opportunity for focused engagement with the varied challenges presented by today’s most ambitious art. It bridges the relationship between theory and practice by creating exciting study options for artists, curators, writers and other practitioners.

The Master’s in Visual & Experience Design at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE) Dubai prepares you to develop solutions that are both visually compelling and centered around people’s needs.

In our Visual & Experience Design master’s program, students will gain an understanding of innovations in digital, computational, and physical interactions that permeate our daily lives. All topics will be delivered in sequential clusters, allowing the students to acquire and apply theories to real contexts, as well as to envision entirely new scenarios.

The Visual Development MA program provides professional development with advanced coursework in still life painting, figure drawing, character design, concept painting, layout design for animation, and other core skills of professional visual developers.

The Material and Visual Culture MA is designed for those interested in understanding how objects, images, and spaces shape our world. The program covers a wide range of topics, including art, design, archaeology, and material history. Students explor…

The Art and Visual Culture MA is part of the Cultural and Literary Studies Suite, a cluster of four MAs that bring together academics, curators and practitioners who share a commitment to investigating modern and contemporary culture from aesthetic, critical, literary, and experiential perspectives. You'll share classes with students from the Cultural and Critical Studies MA, the English Literature: Modern and Contemporary Fictions MA, and the Museum, Galleries and Contemporary Culture MA, joining a fruitful and intellectually-rigorous environment designed to facilitate the sprouting of interdisciplinary thinking. As part of our Suite, you may also choose an option module from the other three MA programmes (what is referred to as an ‘elective’ module), a fantastic opportunity to explore a facet of culture outside of your chosen MA programme. The Art and Visual Culture MA is an interdisciplinary, visual theory-based course established around the belief that visual literacy and the impact of visual forms of thinking and working play significant roles in our society. In the course, we interrogate visual perception and representation in high and popular culture, explore how these produce meanings, and how such meanings shape societies and individuals.

Visual Arts & Post-Contemporary Practise is a graduation track of the Master of Arts in Fine Art & Design at Avans. In the graduation track Visual Arts, you develop practice- and process-based research with students from other disciplines. In a setting that connects cultural studies, visual and digital cultures.

The Master of Arts (MA) in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) is a two-year, English language program intended to develop a student’s independent practice and define their position as a graphic designer.

The Cultural and Critical Studies MA is part of the Cultural and Literary Studies Suite, a cluster of four MAs that bring together academics, curators and practitioners who share a commitment to investigating modern and contemporary culture from aesthetic, critical, literary and experiential perspectives. You'll share classes with students from the Art and Visual Culture MA, the English Literature: Modern and Contemporary Fictions MA and the Museum, Galleries and Contemporary Culture MA, joining a fruitful and intellectually rigorous environment designed to facilitate interdisciplinary thinking. The Cultural and Critical Studies MA offers you the rare opportunity to study contemporary critical and cultural debates across a wide range of fields. Exploring a variety of different visual, textual and popular forms of culture, the course will particularly appeal to those with wide-ranging interests in the arts and humanities, as well as those interested in cutting-edge theoretical debates. We also draw upon a long tradition of practical engagement with the applied arts and culture. Our location in the cultural heart of London offers a unique educational experience, and as one of the most internationally diverse universities in the UK, you’ll also be studying alongside students from a wide range of different cultural backgrounds. You'll be supported on the course through a series of academic skills workshops on subjects such as improving academic writing and undertaking research projects, which are designed to support you in your progression to essay and dissertation writing at the postgraduate level.

Visual Arts is a follow-up postgraduate program that combines practical studio-based seminars and workshops with theoretical lectures on art theory and history.

The MAVA has been designed to ensure that it supports students in developing the required level of competence to exit with research in specialized areas of visual art a master’s qualification. Students conduct practice, photography, video and new media art, environmental art and related theories, art history, theory and criticism, art education, art therapy, and socially engaged art as well as collaborative art practice. Students are expected to investigate complex analytical and practical skills through the writing of a dissertation and/or professional practice through having or curating an exhibition, or engaging in community-based research to advance knowledge appropriate to the research mode.

MAPs offers an immersive journey where materials act as collaborators, bringing their own urgencies, stories, and ethical dimensions to your work. Through a hands-on, process-driven approach, you will explore sustainable practices, material alternatives, and the interaction between physical structures and personal presence. Here, artistic research focuses on the impact and agency of materials, adding depth to your practice without centering on products.

This MA in Architectural Visualisation enables students to develop at an advanced level the skills, knowledge and understanding of digital simulation and 3D modelling which will equip them to become highly skilled professionals in architectural visualisation. Drawing influence from both architecture and film, this programme offers a progression route into both industries, highlighting the different requirements needed for each profession while exploring the similarities of these markets.

The combination of iconic practice, iconic theory, and iconic research forms the profile of the MA in Digital Communication Environments.