Masters Degrees (Rca)

Offered jointly by the Royal College of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the MA creates critical histories through artefacts, environments and our interactions with them, whether in design, performance, photography or material culture more broadly. Read more

The MRes RCA Communication Design Pathway will introduce you to practice-led and experimental research processes, methods and methodologies that inform communication design research. Read more

The MRes RCA Design Pathway builds design research skills that can be deployed within academic and professional careers. We foster innovation and tackle complex systems and social challenges, from the future of work to the circular economy, climate change, AI and healthcare. Read more

The MRes RCA Arts & Humanities Pathway introduces you to a range of practice-based research methods, in order to equip you for your future professional and research careers. Read more

The Architecture research programme focuses on practice-led and interdisciplinary research with tangible public and social impact. Read more

Building on the success of the world-renowned Vehicle Design programme at the RCA, Intelligent Mobility places transportation design in the context of an increasingly complex environment. Read more

These courses are designed to equip you with the tools to instigate and lead innovation in healthcare systems, services and spaces. Read more

Service Design is the application of design practice to services and experiences. Service design solves problems and transforms the human experience of businesses and industry as well as developing impactful solutions for complex social issues, better public services and citizen centric policy. Read more

From theory to practice, increase the impact of research in industry and society. Read more

Environmental Architecture focuses on the co-dependence of life forms and earth systems as well as the co-existence of alternative concepts of landscapes, environments and territories as they are expressed by different societies. Read more

We look to create a new generation of thought leaders/designers; future fashion designers with a combined skill-set of designer-led innovation, underpinned with that critical approach and collaboration situated within new technologies, offering specific fashion insights and understanding of new engineering, digital and scientific paradigms. Read more

Textiles at the RCA is a multi-faceted discipline, and we work at the creative interface between materials, making and meaning. Our focus is on new knowledge that impacts many sectors, exploring new territories for tomorrow’s textiles specialist. Read more

This unique interdisciplinary programme draws on the complementary expertise from the RCA's School of Design and Helen Hamlyn Design Centre, and the healthcare expertise from Imperial College London’s medical faculty and the Helix Centre based at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington London. Read more

Global Innovation Design is a joint Master's degree between Imperial College London and the  Royal College of Art. You receive a double Master's – an MSc from Imperial and an MA from the RCA. Read more

Expand the possibilities of your practice by developing a speculative, independent and critical ethos. Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) part II and Architects Registration Board (ARB) validated since 1983. Read more