Details: 4-5 semesters part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change and you are advised to check the current details with the course provider before enrolling on this course.
Course description: The course (recognised by Royal Institute of British Architects) is design-based and research-orientated. (read more)
Course venue: London Metropolitan University, N7 8DB
Details: 42 months (maximum) part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: The course is design-based and encourages exploratory work in the fields of architectural and spatial design. (read more)
Course venue: University of Brighton, BN2 4AT
Details: 2--3 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change and you are advised to check the current details with the course provider before enrolling on this course.
Course description: Students reflect critically on their own work and that of other practitioners within and outside their chosen subject area. (read more)
Course venue: Buckinghamshire New University, HP11 2JZ
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change and you are advised to check the current details with the course provider before enrolling on this course
Course description: The course exposes students to the full range of knowledge, competences and values needed to meet the requirements for initial planning education. (read more)
Course venue: City North Campus, B42 2SU
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This is a practice-based illustration programme underpinned by contextual studies in design. (read more)
Course venue: University of Sunderland, SR1 3SD
Details: 24 months part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This flexible course provides students with the opportunity to develop their individual design interests in a wide range of specialist areas, whilst fully reflecting external trends and global design needs. (read more)
Course venue: University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
Details: 2-6 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course venue: University of Chester, CH1 4BJ
Details: Variable part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: In contemporary design surface is now recognised as a carrier of information about structure and substance. (read more)
Course venue: Main Site, PR1 2HE
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This programme deals with the widest possible research into 3D design. (read more)
Course venue: University of Sunderland, SR1 3SD
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: The Cox Review of Creativity in Business (2005), commissioned by the UK government, cites design as: what links creativity and innovation, it shapes ideas to become practical and attractive propositions for users or customers. (read more)
Course venue: Kingston University London, KT1 2HX
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This course provides opportunities for students to investigate critical issues of 'site' and the 'spatial' which may be interpreted widely as phenomenological, institutional, discursive, architectural, specific or performative. (read more)
Course venue: Canterbury Campus, CT1 3AN
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This course is essentially concerned with designing, illustrating or researching into sequences - in publishing, narrative and picture book illustration, book arts, comic strip, graphic novel, illustration for the stage, exhibition design, multimedia, animation, film and reportage. (read more)
Course venue: University of Brighton, BN2 4AT
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Not known.
Course description: Brand development aims to develop analytical, strategic and creative thinking processes together with the skills related to brand creation, identity, positioning and marketing. (read more)
Course venue: Bath Spa University, BA2 9BN
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Not known.
Course description: The course provides students with the theoretical and practical skills necessary to pursue careers as professional creative practitioners or design managers. (read more)
Course venue: Glasgow Caledonian University, G4 0BA
Details: 48 weeks full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This programme has strengths in advertising concepts, copywriting, campaign planning and design, art direction for fashion and styling, photography and magazine design, design for digital media, plus corporate identity and trend forecasting. (read more)
Course venue: Manchester Metropolitan University, M15 6BH
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: The course develops individually-focused research which interrogates contemporary commercial practice and recognises the increased interdependency of visual practice in all areas. (read more)
Course venue: Epsom Campus, KT18 5BE
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: The course involves presentations. (read more)
Course venue: London College of Communication, SE1 6SB
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: The course integrates theory and practice within design. (read more)
Course venue: Nottingham Trent University, NG1 4BU
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: The course is distinctive, in view of the fact that creativity and ideas can be developed in all types of animation such as cut-out, 3D stop frame model animation, clay animation, pixilation, Smudge 'n' Click, 3D computer generated animation, 2D traditional animation, 2D computer generated animation, direct on film, cell animation and abstract and experimental techniques. (read more)
Course venue: University of Sunderland, SR1 3SD
Details: 18 months full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course venue: Main Site, PR1 2HE
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Postgraduate Design reviews
Design and Digital Media MA
Coventry University
Oliver, August 2008Overall score
The university is good but it isn't campus based, it is set around the city of Coventry.
THe university business links are superb and the design facilities are fantastic.
You need to enroll on time and go to your lectures.
Study experience
THe course is good but effort is up to you.
The lecture support is there if you ask for it. Don't be shy.
Facilities
THe library is good but there are not enough computers to go around if you're there too late or during lecture hours between 12-4 too busy too.
Postgraduate life
I was a member of the university swimming team, the sports clubs are well organised but it's not all interlinked.
Job prospects
THe most important thing as a post grad I will say is work experience!
Get contacts and involved with things that will help you for future employment.
There are oppertunities but you have to look for them.
This review is the subjective opinion of a postgraduatesearch.com reviewer and not of postgraduatesearch.com.
International Contemporary Art and Design Practice MA
University Of East London
Lynn, August 2009Overall score
I didn't get anything out of the course because the programme leaders for MA Contemporary Art & Design Practice couldn't support me at all.
If you intended to do a postgraduate course in graphic design or digital art you would be best off studying somewhere else!
Programme leaders and personal tutors did their entire degree in fine arts. No need to say that you won't get any useful support and advice in the other fields. In addition you won't get the assessment you deserved as they won't know what you have done at the end, especially when you are a graphic designer and your expertise is web design, editorial, corporate design, publishing and advertising.
There isn't any assessment regulation and you wont get any independent or professional examiners in the mentioned field as well.
They don't care about students, just money. The campus is pretty, but noisy and windy because of the planes.
Study experience
Once a week one to one tutorials if wished.
But as mentioned before if your field of study isn't fine arts you won't get any useful support or recommendation.
You will lose your time traveling to UEL and get a 5-10 minutes appointment where you even have to explain what you want to do or have done so that they would notice that you are working on a project but still they won't be able to give useful help.
I would recommend group appointment if you have the feeling the personal tutor isn't able to give the deserved support you have paid for so that other course members can help out if you need someone's opinion.
The course is not big, around 6-7 students and predominantly oversea students.
Tuition fees are very high for the poor teaching service and support.
You can have one to one tutorials with just one tutor or if you are lucky and complain another one to choose from, but both are only experienced in fine arts.
EU/ Home: 4890£
International: 11900£
Facilities
Library is big and got plenty of computers, but not all of them work. All in all it is great and open often (not all the time) 24 hours.
Working places at AVA for postgraduate students in visual communication are not suitable. I got s tiny place and a shabbily small desk between fine arts student. I attended just few times with my MacBook and chose to work at home because of the oil painting and terpentine smell that caused me headache.
Postgraduate life
Don't know any.
Job prospects
No support or advice on building a suitable portfolio for your career.
This MA course is the worst thing that happened in my life!
I wasted one year and paid around 5000£ for very poor teaching service.
I would advice you all first to inform about the course, lectures, programme leaders etc. and then to apply.
If you are sure you would get the support from a qualified tutor in your field then you are safe and it's all on you to make the best of the year.
Good luck!
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Rural Surveying and Spatial Planning MA (Hons)
University Of Aberdeen
Sarah, February 2008Overall score
Halls great experience. Course not great, badly organized.
Study experience
Lecturers are nice.
Facilities
They're ok.
Postgraduate life
Have them, but I'm not involved.
Job prospects
Pretty good.
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