Overview

Within this Media, Communications and Critical Practice programme at University of the Arts London (UAL) ou will be encouraged to express your ideas and solve problems through a range of creative media practices. Working with images, texts, sound, and data, you will learn how to produce different types of media content for different purposes, and explore the social and cultural impacts of your interventions.

What can you expect?

High quality, interactive teaching, in the form of lectures, seminars, workshops, and external visits.

Dynamic project briefs, relevant to emergent issues in the media and communications sector.

Introduction to a range of visual and print-based creative media skills, including video production, blogging, podcasting, and digital image production.

Access to the college’s Kit Room and Digital Space, and support in using technical resources.

Opportunities to implement practice-based projects through collaboration with students from other courses and/or partners outside the university.

Flexibility in your programme of study, through the selection of preferred topics, media, and methods of enquiry.

Opportunities for networking with industry professionals and creatives, through our Industry Speaker Series.

Individual support from lecturers who are active in research and/or creative practice.

Careers

Graduates will be well suited to a range of careers in the media, communications or creative industries, as well as to research roles in the cultural and public sectors. Each year a number of our students progress to advanced postgraduate study.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Media, Culture and Economy

Analysing Contemporary Media

Media, Mobility and Culture

Collaborative Unit

Professional Industry Practice

Major Project

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 15 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-29 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-03-18 00:00:00

More details

Most of the postgraduate courses have 2 rounds of deadlines: December and March. If there are still places available after the second deadline, the course will remain open to applications until all places have been filled.

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

100

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PTE Academic

66

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IELTS

7

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

London, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Media Studies & Mass Media Digital Media Communications Engineering View 169 other Masters in Digital Media in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

100

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66

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IELTS

7

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Other requirements

General requirements

An applicant will be considered for admission who has achieved an educational level equivalent to an Honours degree, preferably at 2:1 level.Educational level may be demonstrated by:

Possession of equivalent qualifications;

Prior experiential learning, the outcome of which can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required;

Or a combination of formal qualifications and experiential learning which, taken together, can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

30890 GBP / year

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Citizens or residents

14420 GBP / year

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Living costs

London

United Kingdom

1137 - 2157 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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Programme Structure

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Academic requirements

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Living costs

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