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31 Master's degrees offered by the university

Innovation Design Engineering
The Innovation Design Engineering program at Royal College of Art is about transformation. Transformation of the practices that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Transformation of the understanding of how the past, present and future can identify opportunities to create lasting impact.

Information Experience Design
Information Experience Design from Royal College of Art encourages you to integrate methods from fields beyond art and design with tested fine art and speculative design practices.

Research
The Research at the Royal College of Art is a one-year, full-time programme designed to elevate your research capabilities. This degree fosters interdisciplinary exploration across various fields, enabling students to develop their unique research projects under expert supervision.

Design
Design from Royal College of Art is home to internationally significant research, much of which is practice-based. The teaching areas of the School – Design Products, Fashion, Global Innovation Design, Innovation Designing Engineering, Intelligent Mobility, Service Design and Textiles – represent a wide range of approaches to research.

Service Design
Joining our Service Design course from Royal College of Art you’ll be part of a rich community of individuals from different geographical and vocational backgrounds.

Intelligent Mobility
Intelligent Mobility from Royal College of Art builds on the rich history of vehicle and transport design at the RCA, placing this in the context of new social, cultural, and technical changes.

Ceramics and Glass
Ceramics and Glass from Royal College of Art has driven a global perspective on material-based pedagogy and a fusion of art, design and skilled making. Your learning will be self-directed and self-reflective, critical in nature and thoroughly contextualised in disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge.

Design Products
Design Products from Royal College of Art explores new terrain for designing products aiming to evolve new design disciplines and practices. We question ‘what is a product?’ and the assumption of adding products to uncover critical questioning to inform cutting edge creative practices for designing better futures.

Textiles
Join this Textiles from Royal College of Art operating at the intersection of design, craft and fine art.

Sculpture
Sculpture from Royal College of Art encourages diverse, experimental approaches. We encourage you to take a critical, reflexive approach in your work and give you the knowledge to situate your practice within contemporary social, political and economic contexts.

Interior Design
On our cutting-edge Interior Design from Royal College of Art you’ll consider the spatial and environmental aspects of buildings but also explore the implications of different forms of inhabitation, materialities, identities and diversity viewpoints.

Painting
During the Painting programme from Royal College of Art you will be supported by a committed team of tutors as you learn through individual tutorials, group critiques, seminars, and lectures.

Design Practice
Design Practice programme at Royal College of Art is a transformative one-year programme for architects, designers, spatial and creative practitioners at any career stage – whether you’re looking to reimagine an established practice, emerging from undergraduate study, or transitioning from other creative, activist or policy-engaged fields.

Curating Contemporary Art
The Curating Contemporary Art from Royal College of Art is designed to develop your critical awareness of curating in a global context. We place real importance on working collaboratively to share knowledge and culture, and test ideas.

Design Futures
On the Design Futures program at Royal College of Art, you’ll develop a transdisciplinary approach to your design practice and strengthen your research methodology so you can refine your thinking.

Photography
Photography from Royal College of Art comprises a unique, cross-disciplinary community of artists and writers working at the cutting edge of contemporary photographic practice and image-making.

Arts and Design
The Arts and Design programme from Royal College of Art will help you expand your practice, refine your portfolio, and open new futures.

Print from Royal College of Art positions Print focuses on print and the technical image from the perspective of contemporary art practice.

Arts and Humanities
Ready to deepen, reset or activate your existing creative practice across a global network? In this Arts and Humanities programme from Royal College of Art, you could be looking at health and care, spatial practices, experimental arts or AI and digital or affective infrastructures. Whatever the theme, you’ll be considering how to address future challenges.

Contemporary Art Practice
Join our vibrant Contemporary Art Practice from Royal College of Art community of high-performing, ambitious and exploratory artists