MA Product, Ceramics and Jewellery Design at Robert Gordon University

Programme overview

Our MA in Product, Ceramics and Jewellery Design will actively support you in developing your visual design practice and knowledge at a professional level. The course aims to situate your creative design practice within an innovative practice-based and entrepreneurial context, supporting you in achieving your onward career aspirations & personal creative interests, if working in a team or as a designer-maker.

Faculty: Gray's School of Art | Duration: 16 months full-time; 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time | Study mode: full-time; part-time | Intake: January; September | Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

What you will study

The programme is delivered through four modules and associated learning experiences, each positioned to critically challenge and develop your specialist disciplinary practice at Masters level. The studio-based programme and teaching environment provides a diversity of teaching methods: lectures, seminars, technical workshops, peer-to-peer crits and individual tutorials all supporting your research, development and realisation of an individual design project(s).

Career pathways

The MA Programme is designed to support you in further developing your subject-specific disciplinary expertise and skill sets needed to pursue a career in the creative and cultural sectors.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Applicants will normally hold a 2:2 undergraduate honours degree or above in a relevant subject. Applicants with a lower degree classification and/or relevant work experience will be considered on a case by case basis. As part of the application process, applicants will be contacted with a request to share examples of their creative work and explain their motivation and ambitions. Applicants may be offered the option to have an online meeting with the Course Team, or to provide a digital portfolio and project proposal. Once a preferred option has been indicated, more detailed guidance on the requirements and next steps will be provided. Applicants whose first language is not English should have an IELTS of 6.5 overall, with no component lower than 5.5, or an equivalent.

Domestic applicants: GBP 6,100 a year (2026/2027). Scottish students, full time on campus, over 1 year Source

International applicants: GBP 19,240 a year (2026/2027). International students, full time on campus, over 1 year Source

Intake: January; September

Duration: 16 months full-time; 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time

Apply through the official page: https://www.rgu.ac.uk/study/courses/pgcert-pgdip-ma-product-ceramics-and-jewellery-design#apply

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