MA Music at Edinburgh Napier University

Programme overview

This innovative MA in Music puts your interests at the heart of your experience. Building on the success of our undergraduate Music degrees, the MA Music provides a supportive and encouraging environment in which to develop your practice. We have flipped the traditional structure of a Masters, where taught modules are followed by a final project or dissertation, by enabling you to work on and develop your major project from the outset.

Duration: 1 year | Study mode: full-time | Intake: September | Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Entry requirements

The entry requirement for this course is a Bachelor (Honours) Degree at 2:2 or above in any discipline. As part of the application process, you must submit a portfolio of music, creative, or scholarly work, including examples from your area of expertise (e.g. performance, composition, songwriting, production, music technology, musicology, etc.). This could be through links to an online repository or drive (e.g. audio files, notations, videos, project reports, essays, and dissertations, as applicable), or links to publicly available work (e.g. Bandcamp, Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc.).

Domestic applicants: GBP 8,030 a year (2026/27). Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland fee Source

International applicants: GBP 20,540 a year (2026/27). Overseas and EU fee Source

Intake: September

Duration: 1 year

Apply through the official page: https://www.napier.ac.uk/study-with-us/postgraduate/how-to-apply/useful-application-information

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