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MSc - Master of Science
Lauriston Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
1 Year
The MSc by Research programme is for students looking for a one-year Masters degree, who have strong research skills and wish to include a substantial research element within their study, and those who also wish to focus their interests and deepen their knowledge of a specific topic.The History of Art department at Edinburgh College of Art provides a dynamic and supportive research environment for your MSc by Research studies.The research topics that we can supervise include but are not limited to:modern and contemporary art historyartists’ film and videodigital culture and internet artmedieval art historySouth Asian art historypremodern visual and material cultureseighteenth-century history of artIslamic artnineteenth-century artcuratorial theory and practiceScottish visual cultureChinese art