MFA Arts & Humanities
Royal College of Art
Key Information
Campus location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
1 - 2 year
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
GBP 36,750 **
Application deadline
Request info *
Earliest start date
Sep 2024
* “As the RCA received a high number of applications we encourage you to apply as early as possible to secure your place on your programme”
** overseas and EU - full time
Open Days and Prospective Student Events
To provide prospective students with opportunities to find out about the RCA experience and programmes, we run a number of on-campus and online open days as well as events in various countries around the world.
Introduction
A cross-disciplinary community of practice
Extend your practice, locate and expand its professional potential and explore your agency in forging the future of arts and humanities.
The RCA will be launching a new Master of Fine Arts programme for the start of the 2023/24 academic year. The information on these pages is subject to validation.
This professionally engaged, externally-facing programme brings you together with other creative practitioners in a trans-disciplinary, collaborative community that promotes a dynamic dialogue to actively examine how the arts and humanities can address current and future challenges.
You will identify and explore the professional realm that you and your work will operate within, and interrogate that context through live projects that activate and extend your practice. You will explore how you can engage audiences towards building a professionally robust, ethically sound and research-informed approach. The programme will encourage you to develop models and build networks that should help sustain your practice and research after graduating.
Your programme of study will be bespoke to you. A series of electives will allow you to align your research and practice with one of the School’s specialist areas of research. And College-wide electives enable you to build cross-disciplinary networks and engage with the knowledge and practices across the RCA’s four Schools.
The Master of Fine Arts programme seeks to challenge orthodoxies, actively consider how your practice – and the arts and humanities in general – might address the challenges of now and near future.
Admissions
Curriculum
What you'll study
Flexibility and choice are at the heart of the offer, with a combination of Core and Elective units enabling you to create a bespoke programme of studies that best suits your approach, context and interests.
Rankings
The Royal College of Art has been ranked the number 1 university for art & design internationally for the 9th consecutive year, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023 – the largest world-wide survey of academic and industry opinion.
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
The RCA Career Progression Bursary
Eligible Programmes: MFA Arts & Humanities, MFA Communication, MDes Design Futures, MRes or MEd Creative Education
Eligible fee status: Home fee status - mid-career and no links to RCA. Preference to be shown to:
- Over 50s
- People returning after a career break
- Career changes
- Parents returning to work after parental leave
- Applicants with a disability
Value: