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49 Master's degrees offered by the university

Painting
Painting programme from Royal College of Art cultivates an inclusive and expansive approach to painting as both a material practice and a way of thinking.

Curating Contemporary Art
The Curating Contemporary Art from Royal College of Art develops your critical awareness of curating in a global context through collaborative, practice-led study.

Ceramics and Glass
Ceramics and Glass from Royal College of Art is a material and research-led programme that fuses art, design and skilled making, enabling you to develop a self-directed, critically reflective practice grounded in the transformative power of clay and glass.

Contemporary Art Practice
Contemporary Art Practice from Royal College of Art MFA will be available either as a one year MA or a two year MFA.

Sculpture
Sculpture from Royal College of Art provides a critical environment to explore contemporary issues through the making of sculpture.

Jewellery and Metal
Jewellery and Metal from Royal College of Art develops your creative jewellery, object and metal practice through material-led research, experimentation and making.

Service Design
Service Design course from Royal College of Art RCA prepares you to navigate complex social, organisational and environmental challenges through a transdisciplinary, practice-based approach.

Research
The Research at the Royal College of Art is an interdisciplinary programme at the RCA that equips you with the intellectual, technical and professional tools needed for PhD-level study or advanced research roles in industry.

Writing
Writing programme at Royal College of Art helps you develop intellectual, literary and technical skills as a writer working within a creative university.

Animation
Animation from Royal College of Art fosters critical and creative artistic investigation across analogue, digital and hybrid practices, supporting you to develop your authorial voice within contemporary discourse and the expanded field of animation.

Sound Practice
The Sound MA at the RCA is a new programme, with its first intake in September 2027, exploring sound as a creative and artistic force through which to engage with the world.

Information Experience Design
Information Experience Design from Royal College of Art enables you to design and generate experiences of complex ideas and phenomena using both computational and living systems.

Innovation Design Engineering
The Innovation Design Engineering program at Royal College of Art ,run jointly with Imperial College London, is a two-year, 360-credit double Master’s programme combining design, engineering, science and enterprise.

Photography
Photography from Royal College of Art brings together a cross-disciplinary community of artists and writers working at the forefront of contemporary photographic practice and image-making.

Aardman RCA Animation (Professional Residency)
Aardman RCA Animation (Professional Residency) at Royal College of Art is a new programme, with its first intake in September 2027.

Visual Communication
Visual Communication from Royal College of Art supports designers to develop thoughtful, collaborative and socially engaged practices.

Robotics
The Robotics programme from Royal College of Art promotes a creative, interdisciplinary approach to robotics, bringing engineering together with artistic and design perspectives.

Fashion
Fashion from Royal College of Art calls for a disruptive, critical approach that leads to new aesthetics and responses in the fashion industry, shifting the focus away from just making clothes toward environmental, social, geopolitical and economic challenges.

Print from Royal College of Art positions Print explores print and the technical image from a contemporary art perspective, drawing on the rich cultural legacies of printed matter while investigating its future potential.

Interior Design
Interior Design from Royal College of Art explores emergent ideas and issues concerning the design of the interior through research, practice and making.