Masters Degrees (Bookbinding)

Design and carry out your own visual projects, exploring the relationships between word and image, as you prepare for a career as a visual artist in a growing creative industry. Read more

In the MA/MFA Photography, you will be encouraged to test and push the boundaries of the photographic medium. You will explore approaches to visual narrative, including the photographic and cinematic, and evaluate the relationship between photography and texts/sound/space. Read more

Develop your own authorial voice on this unique illustration course. You’ll learn to see your work as an evolving practice, as you challenge and re-evaluate your personal visual language with the help of experienced practitioners. Read more

MA Graphic Media Design explores the use of graphic design as a critical tool to investigate the complexities of contemporary society. Read more

The Sequential Design/Illustration MA attracts new and established illustrators, artists and designers from all over the world who are keen to explore the principles of sequence within their chosen field and make them visible through a variety of forms. Read more

Our Arts and Design by Independent Project MA is a highly individual course offering you the opportunity to propose and develop your own academic programme in a particular field of craft, design, communication or image-making within a stimulating educational context. Read more

Our one-year Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) prepares you to teach the art and design secondary school curriculum. You’ll learn teaching methods through interactive workshops – we teach you as if you’re in a school art class. Read more

MA Graphic Design explores the ever-changing landscape of graphic design, to create insightful and well-defined specialist projects. Read more

This practice and research-based course will enable you to explore and develop your interest and skill in all forms of narrative and sequential illustration. Read more

The interdisciplinary nature of the programme enables you to experiment, engage and explore traditional and new media methods of practice to best envision your ideas. Read more

We're ranked 9th in the world and 3rd in the UK for Architecture (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019). Explore a range of perspectives in relation to contemporary architecture and urbanism, on a course jointly accredited by The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University. Read more

MA Architecture and Urbanism allows you to study, and conduct in-depth research into, the influence of global cultural and economic forces on contemporary cities. Read more