242 Design Masters Degree Programs in United Kingdom

The Architecture and Sustainable Heritage MA offers a distinctive programme for those interested in studying the historic built environment. The course provides a unique platform for students to advance careers in heritage practice or engage in specialised research.

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.

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.

Embrace the career opportunities emerging from the trend towards 'online everything, anytime, anywhere, anyhow' with the User Experience Design MSc from Kingston University. This course was developed in consultation with our industry panel, which includes Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, DreamWorks and Samsung Design Europe.

Our MA Urban Design programme is jointly delivered by the Welsh School of Architecture and the School of Geography and Planning. The goal of this programme is to enable practitioners and scholars to transform the field of urban design through critical thinking and creative practice. Urban design is transdisciplinary, straddling professional fields such as architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and public policy, and also disciplines such as politics, economics, sociology and cultural studies.

In an increasingly urbanised world, there is growing international demand for urban design graduates. This course will equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to participate in this rapidly expanding profession. Urban design involves shaping the physical setting for life in cities. The pace of urban change, and the challenge of making cities efficient, sustainable and meaningful, demands creative solutions to design and management. The urban design courses at Westminster provide a coherent approach to issues that face our cities, combining structured academic study with live design projects, allowing you to develop practical skills, a theoretical understanding and an informed approach to sustainable urban development. Our Urban Design MA is one of the longest established in the UK. It enjoys an excellent reputation, and our graduates are highly respected in the profession. Our students are from a variety of professions and backgrounds, including architecture, landscape architecture and planning, from the UK, Europe, and across the globe. They range from recent graduates seeking to expand their skill base before commencing their career or those considering a shift from an allied profession to established professionals seeking to specialise or develop a more informed critical approach. Our central London location allows you to interact with a huge variety of practitioners and organisations, as well as draw on the city's huge range of resources; you'll be at the heart of the debate over the future of cities.

In practice, there is a common tension between those developing and interpreting planning policy on the one hand, and the designers of cities on the other. This programme brings these groups together to engage in project-based learning. You will develop planning research, urban analysis and design skills before deciding whether to complete an urban design thesis or dissertation. Both of these options can be completed as work-based studies with opportunities for summer placements.

The School of Design is home to internationally significant research, much of which is practice-based. The teaching and research areas of the School – Design Products, Fashion, Innovation Designing Engineering, Healthcare Design, Robotics, Service Design and Textiles – represent a wide range of approaches to design research.

This course is at the forefront of contemporary product design practices and brings together students from creative and technical backgrounds, to foster original approaches to the application of product design and design innovation.

New for 2023. The Design Futures programme is designed to enable you to work across all the disciplines and beyond, to build future-shaping knowledge and skills, address the challenges we face, envision and then navigate towards a preferred future through design-led interventions. It will allow you to ask the ‘big questions’ about disruptive innovation, ethics for design, design resilience, shared values, future forecasting and design for safety.

The boundaries between design, visual communication and visual arts practices are becoming increasingly blurred. Our MA Design encourages a healthy interplay of work and ideas between disciplines. This is a practical design course, grounded in professional development and research. We encourage you to work independently and collaboratively alongside students of curation, graphic design, photography, illustration, and other Design and Fine Art specialisms to build a strong professional and critical context for your practice.

MA Design Innovation considers how design acts as a catalyst for innovation, leading to new products, services, and user experiences. It focuses on design thinking approaches to address contemporary societal and business challenges to develop a rich understanding of where design can add value.

The Urban Design MArch postgraduate degree is a design-oriented and project-based course, with a strong research component. Students work within a studio environment to explore how cities can be improved through innovative design and informed by theoretical research into the special structure of urban form.

Service Design is the application of human-centred design methods to complex systems in order to create pragmatic and visionary services that improve and transform human experiences and outcomes.

The Master of Architecture (MArch) in Design for Manufacture is a program that focuses on giving students a deep understanding of how to design and produce innovative and sustainable manufacturing solutions. It combines principles of design, engineer…

The MSc in Fashion Design course develops your individual design identity and completes a comprehensive exploration of advanced fashion design to prepare you with essential industry skills. The philosophy encourages you to be creative, push the boundaries and think outside the box.

The MArch Design Practice is a one-year programme that supports architects, designers, and spatial practitioners’ creative and critical engagement with the design of the built environment. With climate as a central focus, students will consider how reuse, materials, waste, and embodied carbon intersect with economics, politics, and identity to produce new opportunities for design practice in the just transition toward a fair and flourishing world. Students will critically engage with the planetary implications of construction and make bold, rigorous and informed design propositions through which a world otherwise can be built.

The MA in Communication Design is the study of information and interface design. This course is research-driven and combines creativity, critical analysis of contemporary media. It is a focus on digital media practice and theory sets this course apart from traditional communication design courses.