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 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: 24-27 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: Core modules include: Museum and heritage exhibition design in practice, management: principles and practice. (read more)
Course venue: University of Salford, M5 4WT
Details: 3 years part time course.
Course fees: Contact the University for full details of course fees, funding available (if applicable), additional costs, etc.
Course description: THE PROGRAMME: This innovative programme is designed to prepare creative, self-motivated practitioners from a wide range of design backgrounds to enter the professional world of contemporary designers/practitioners. (read more)
Course venue: University Of Ulster - Belfast Campus, BT15 1ED
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 description: The programmes are designed to explore both the intellectual idea and the spatial language of interior environments. (read more)
Course venue: University of Brighton, BN2 4AT
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Fees for 2008 were: Home & EU - taught Standard fee - £3,270 per year.
Course description: The course provides students with the opportunity to explore the creative possibilities offered by digital media. (read more)
Course venue: Coventry University, CV1 5FB
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 covers areas such as: Design process management. (read more)
Course venue: London College of Communication, SE1 6SB
Details: 15 months full time course.
Course fees: Not known.
Course description: There are 3 main streams: Studio. (read more)
Course venue: Edinburgh College of Art, EH3 9DF
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 exciting new MA provides an opportunity for individuals to develop design ideas through an intimate knowledge of materials and making processes. (read more)
Course venue: University of Plymouth, PL4 8AA
Details: 2 years (minimum) 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: You will explore graphic communication, in traditional and new media, propducing design solotions to complex problems. (read more)
Course venue: Teesside University, TS1 3BA
Details: 12-18 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 description: The course embraces the diverse range of craft & design activities found within the Department of design, including: visual communication, applied arts, digital media & interior & exterior spatial design. (read more)
Course venue: Main Site, PR1 2HE
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Not known.
Course description: The course enables students to improve their understanding of design. (read more)
Course venue: Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW
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 is largely an individually negotiated programme of study with physical resources and staff expertise provided by the University. (read more)
Course venue: University of Lincoln, LN6 7TS
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 includes 7 core modules, live project work and design report development. (read more)
Course venue: London Metropolitan City Campus, E1 7QA
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Not known.
Course description: Multidisciplinary course offering the opportunity to develop specialist practice in relation to, and in consideration of, other areas of design. (read more)
Course venue: Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW
Details: 45 weeks full time course.
Course fees: Course fees for 2007/2008 were: Full-time £4,830, Part-time £2,780 per year.
Course description: Objective of the programme is to foster a reflective approach to design process, within which students develop a design thesis or personal project, working individually within a multidisciplinary setting. (read more)
Course venue: Cat Hill Campus, EN4 8HT
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
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 focuses on the application of digital technologies in music and contemporary culture. (read more)
Course venue: Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS
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: 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 venue: Rochester Campus, ME1 1DZ
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 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
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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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