Overview

Key features

Join a vocational course, comprising of campus and placement-based learning. We’ll teach you through a combination of lectures, seminars and workshops, to bring together theory and practice. We offer a stimulating learning environment, teaching through role play, visual art practice, peer participation and experiential group work.

You’ll complete 96 days of supervised placement learning to give you valuable experience in practicing art therapy in real-life settings. This experience will help guide you to become a mindful, relational and ethical art therapist.

Every step of the way, we’ll encourage you to be an active learner. To be creative. Art making lies at the heart of this course, so you’ll have lots of opportunities to develop strong practical skills. Plus, you’ll reflect on how to use your own art making as therapy practice.

Outside of the course, we’ll require you to explore your own therapeutic journey. To engage with personal therapy to gain self-awareness and to see the approaches used to facilitate honesty of expression.

The Art Therapy programme from University of Hertfordshire is offered on a full-time (2 years) and part-time (4 years) basis. With students on each pathway studying together. Both pathways are equally weighted in terms of practice-based and campus-based learning.

Careers

When you graduate from MA Art Therapy, you’ll be eligible for professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

You’ll be qualified to practice in all settings, with all ages and client groups. These could include: the NHS, social services, the voluntary sector and mainstream education.

You could also establish a social enterprise within community, business, health or educational settings, drawing upon entrepreneurial skills taught throughout the course.

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Programme Structure

Courses include:

Professional Skills in Art Therapy
Research-informed Art Therapy
We’ll teach you theories of creativity and the arts from a neuroscientific, psychological and evolutionary perspective.
You’ll gain an understanding of the issues of culture, race, gender, sexuality, class and disability.

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Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months
Part-time
- 48 months
- Flexible

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-27 00:00:00

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More details

You can apply up until the course starts. Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. If course is full we close the intake for that semester

Language

English

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120

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Hatfield, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Art Therapy View 26 other Masters in Art Therapy in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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120

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IELTS

6.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

Candidates will be expected to provide evidence of relevant work experience equalling 1,000 hours minimum, this may be paid employment and/or voluntary work, gained in the UK or abroad.
All candidates (whether from a visual art background or not) must provide evidence of their engagement with visual art through a portfolio which is submitted as part of the interview process.

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

17950 GBP / year

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Domestic Applies to you

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Citizens or residents

12855 GBP / year

≈ 12855 GBP / year

Additional Details

Part time:

National: £1605 per 15 credits

International and EU: £2245 per 15 credits

Living costs

Hatfield

United Kingdom

660 - 1140 GBP / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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