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34 Master's degrees offered by the university
Digital Direction
At Digital Direction from Royal College of Art will equip you to be a creative thinker, maker and leader in your chosen field.
Design Futures
Design Futures program at Royal College of Art equips you with research, strategic and entrepreneurial design skills to address complex social and environmental challenges through futures thinking.
Environmental Architecture and Urban Design
Environmental Architecture and Urban Design programme from Royal College of Art is a new programme, with its first intake in September 2027.
Architecture
The Royal College of Art offers a Master of Research (MRes) in Architecture, designed for full-time or part-time study. This programme spans one year and is structured to enhance your research capabilities. It provides a unique opportunity to engage with various disciplines while honing your skills under expert supervision.
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.
Architecture
The Architecture research programme at Royal College of Art supports experimental, practice-led and interdisciplinary research with tangible public and social impact.
City Design
City Design from Royal College of Art is more than just designing physical structures. It’s about how we live together, work, and move.
Communication Design
The Master of Research in Communication Design (MRes) at the Royal College of Art offers a comprehensive exploration of design principles. This full-time programme spans one year and provides an engaging environment for students to develop their research skills and creative practices through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Intelligent Mobility Design
The Intelligent Mobility Design research programme at Royal College of Art supports critical, design-led research into future mobility.
Design
Design at the Royal College of Art is rooted in a practice-based, interdisciplinary research environment, with research spanning Design Products, Fashion, Innovation Design Engineering, Healthcare Design, Robotics, Service Design and Textiles.
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.
Architecture
Architecture from Royal College of Art is an ambitious re-imagining of architectural practices, rooted in an interdisciplinary ethos that foregrounds design-led, practice-based research.
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.
Design
The Master of Research (MRes) in Design at the Royal College of Art is a one-year programme that offers full-time or part-time study options. This degree equips students with essential research skills and creative methodologies, preparing them for advanced academic pursuits or professional roles in the design industry.