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Postgraduate courses

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A selection of pink and purple coloured sculptures positioned on a white tiled area
Pleun van Dijk, MA Material Futures

Postgraduate courses at Central Saint Martins are where the next set of ideas and methods in particular disciplines are forged. We lead not follow. Steeped in a research environment, our postgraduate courses and students develop the agendas as to where the creative industries and intellectual debate might go next.

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  • A person wearing a hat facing another person. Both are wearing garments made from a checked material.
    Francesca Lake, Graduate Diploma in Fashion Photo: Ruby Pluhar
    Graduate Diploma Fashion, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    Graduate Diploma Fashion

    The Graduate Diploma in Fashion prepares designers for the next stage of their careers.

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    Multiverse, MAAI Festival 2024. Photo: Jolly Thompson
    MA Applied Imagination, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Applied Imagination

    This course is for people who want to move beyond the predictable.

  • A large white screen or board with brown textured clusters representing a mapping of territories. A soft pink squiggly line is overlaid throughout
    present tense - territory, Kentaro Okumura. MA Art and Science, 2025.
    MA Art and Science, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Art and Science

    A pioneering course exploring the creative relationships between art and science, addressing the rapidly evolving landscape of interdisciplinary art practice.

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    Owen Lewis
    MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise

    MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise teaches you to generate original ideas for arts and cultural events as well as how to realise them.

  • Two people wearing lab coats holding lab equipment
    Photo: Harry Mann
    MA Biodesign, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Biodesign

    MA Biodesign explores bio-informed design strategies as a driver for sustainable innovation.

  • Four animated characters in different styles side by side, from a digital animation to an illustration to stop motion and a further digital animation. The characters are: a chicken, a girl holding a minature human, a smiley furry creature, and a person with glasses and a chef's hat.
    MA Character Animation, Central Saint Martins.
    MA Character Animation, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Character Animation

    Ideas for stories and characters, but not sure how to make them move?

  • A map of Recife, Brazil plotting historical geographical and data from 1859 to now via different layers of coloured lines and shaded areas
    Mapping water flow under the city of Recife in Brazil from 1850 - present. By MA Cities Y1 student Gaia Maria Vignali.
    MA Cities, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Cities

    MA Cities creates city-making practices that foreground social and climate justice.

  • Black and white graphic rendering of diverse objects and concepts arranged in a loose grid
    Graphics designed by Dominic Kesterton
    MA Communicating Complexity, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Communicating Complexity

    In a world of increasing information, this online course will develop your understanding and skills as a communicator to engage with and respond to our most pressing challenges.

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    Anastassia Radtsenko, MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies
    MA Contemporary Photography and Theory, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Contemporary Photography and Theory

    MA Contemporary Photography and Theory brings critical and creative insight to the shifting role of images in contemporary culture.

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    Inside/Out exhibition in various Walworth locations, South London. This was part of a student project with Artists Studio Company, November 2017). Photo: Glenn Michael Harper
    MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Culture, Criticism and Curation

    Through critical writing and curating, MA Culture, Criticism and Curation provides a framework for engaging with historical and contemporary culture.

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    'Symbion' by Frank Shuyang Wang
    MA Design for Industry 5.0, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Design for Industry 5.0

    At the forefront of new industry, this course centres people and planet in the future of design, technology and manufacturing.

  • Three pieces of colourful student work
    Left: AnnaLisa Iacopetti, Solve e Coagula: Murano glass table recycling cotizzo - waste from the glass blowing process. Centre: Kachi Irondi: Sekho: 3D architectural ceramic tiles enable natural air-conditioning, based on Nigerian tribal heritage. Right: Arlena Paraschivescu, Modern Medusa: Feminist jewellery embracing femininity as a superpower.
    MA Design: Ceramics, Furniture, Jewellery, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Design: Ceramics, Furniture, Jewellery

    MA Design: Ceramics, Furniture, Jewellery focuses on your individual design practice and will broaden your career and research horizons.

  • MA Fashion

    MA Fashion has an international profile second to none. With extensive industry links, its graduates practice at the forefront of fashion.

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    MA Fashion Communication: Fashion Image

    MA Fashion Communication: Fashion Image is for image-makers who want to innovate in their specialist field.

  • MA Fashion Communication: Fashion Journalism

    MA Fashion Communication: Fashion Journalism is for writers and editors who want to shape the future of their field.

  • Three boys in descending height order, centre one with cloth cap
    Photograph by Al Vandenberg - 'Untitled', from the series On A Good Day gelatin silver print, London, 1970s, printed 2010. Given in part by Al Vandenberg and Eric Franck. Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
    MA Fashion Communication: Histories and Theories, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Fashion Communication: Histories and Theories

    MA Fashion Communication: Histories and Theories offers an academic approach to the study of fashion cultures in a global context. Students are introduced to diverse models, critiques and understandings of fashion and bodily practices that equip them with the analytical skills to rewrite fashion histories, challenge Eurocentric dominance and shape an evolving industry.

  • Images of a garden printed onto glass sculptures
    Sian Fan, Garden 3
    MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Fine Art

    On MA Fine Art, you will critically address what it means to practice as an artist today.

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    Esther Chiu, MA Fine Art: Digital
    MA Fine Art: Digital, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Fine Art: Digital

    On this course you can explore what it means to be an artist today, from anywhere in the world.

  • Collage of student work
    Clockwise from top left: Anna Niklova, Off The Grid; Stephanie Jin, Lorem Ipsum, Where’s Your Daddy?; Sachi Patil, Decaying: Conversations with Machines on Human Life; Lily Kong, I’m Fine; Matt Urpani, An Array of Constraints; Owen Lewis, Eating Ortolan in the Hammock of Reality; Klara Blazek, Self-Cities.
    MA Graphic Communication Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Graphic Communication Design

    MA Graphic Communication Design brings critical depth and rigour to an increasingly noisy and disorienting visual landscape.

  • A blue parachute surrounded by clouds of mist
    Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri – Cloud Catchers
    MA Industrial Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Industrial Design

    MA Industrial Design will teach you to be strategic, respond to trends, initiate new design approaches and thrive in multidisciplinary teams.

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    Molly Hiebert
    MA Innovation Management, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Innovation Management

    MA Innovation Management will help you develop the creative strategies you need to drive innovation and transformative change in an uncertain world.

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    MA Intercultural Practices

    Preparing you for future careers where intercultural collaboration is essential.

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    Jen Keane
    MA Material Futures, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Material Futures

    Material Futures is where science, technology and design collide.

  • Two hands emerging through hole in a pink screen holding a green item
    Setup by Lucy Hayhoe in the photographic studios. Photo: Alys Tomlinson
    MA Narrative Environments, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Narrative Environments

    MA Narrative Environments designs spatial stories.

  • Bearded, long haired man in pink boxer short and lipstick holding a large sign stating APPLAUSE
    Little Death, Mina Alacalioglu
    MA Performance: Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Performance: Design and Practice

    Bringing together artists, directors, writers, researchers and designers, this course sets the agendas that drive performance practice in the twenty-first century.

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    Fabio Modonutti and Victoria Gong MAPS 2022. Photo by: Ali
    MA Performance: Screen, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MA Performance: Screen

    MA Performance: Screen supports you to define your voice and strategy as an independent film maker and screen-based performance maker.

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    MA Performance: Society

    MA Performance: Society explores radical, socially engaged performance through live, screen-based and sited practice.

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    MA Performance: Writing

    Innovation in the art of scriptwriting for theatre, TV, film, audio and digital media. MA Performance: Writing is dedicated to exploring storytelling across platforms taught by working professionals.

  • MA Regenerative Design

    Sustainability is not enough: MA Regenerative Design goes further, helping you to develop your creative practice for a more-than-human world.

  • An exhibition display featuring publications, posters, boxes and clothing
    Photo: Peter Günzel
    MArch: Architecture, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MArch: Architecture

    In a world where established customs, systems and structures are increasingly unstable, we need a different kind of architectural thinking.

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    Image by Cara Lloyd
    Master of Business Administration (MBA), Central Saint Martins, UAL

    Master of Business Administration (MBA)

    What happens when you mix an arts school with a business school?

  • MRes Art: Exhibition Studies

    MRes Art: Exhibition Studies examines the history of contemporary art through key developments in the exhibition form.

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    Lis Rhodes, Light Music (1975)
    MRes Art: Moving Image, Central Saint Martins, UAL

    MRes Art: Moving Image

    MRes Art: Moving Image explores the rich histories, theories and aesthetics that have led artists to turn to film and video.

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    MRes Art: Theory and Philosophy

    MRes Art: Theory and Philosophy promotes dialogue between practitioners and theorists about art discourse today.

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