MA Fine Art at Leeds Arts University

Programme overview

This course is for practitioners who wish to advance, widen and deepen an existing practice, enabling progress through critical thinking and critical making. With a focus on self-directed learning, informed debate, focused experimentation and high-level material production, you will be supported in fine art making across the widest possible range of media, methods, and practical outcomes.

Duration: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time | Study mode: full-time | Intake: September | Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

You will be engaged in an imaginative exchange of ideas within an experimental, critical and creative learning environment, underpinned by the University’s practice-based research culture. Your ambition for your individual practice provides self-determined parameters for advanced study throughout the course. The course combines specialist subject modules with transdisciplinary core modules in research methods and business shared with all MA students, taught across three teaching blocks per year.

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Application information

Entry requirements

A 2:2 UK honours degree or international equivalent, or a degree-equivalent postgraduate diploma/professional qualification; applicants with a degree in another discipline or relevant experience may be considered through Recognition of Prior Learning. Personal statement, one academic or creative-practitioner reference and 10-15 portfolio pieces, followed by a written component discussing the portfolio. International applicants: IELTS 6.5 overall with no component below 5.5 (UKVI-approved centre).

Domestic applicants: GBP 10,200 a year (2026/27). Home full-time fee; part-time £5,100 per year over two years. Leeds Arts University BA graduates within three years pay £9,200 full-time / £4,600 part-time. Source

International applicants: GBP 18,900 a year (2026/27). International full-time fee; alumni rate £17,010. Source

Intake: September

Duration: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time

Apply through the official page: https://apply.leeds-art.ac.uk/

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