MA Photography at University for the Creative Arts

Programme overview

Develop the skills and the confidence you’ll need to be bold in your work and how you display it on our MA in Photography. This course will encourage you to speculate, experiment and add complexity to your projects, using our extensive facilities to help you realise your ideas. We also focus on the dissemination, exhibition and publication of photographic work, as well as covering critical theory and reading and writing about the image. Taught at UCA Farnham.

Duration: 1 year full-time | Study mode: full-time | Intake: September 2027 | Location: Farnham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

MA Photography is a critically focused postgraduate course that responds to contemporary and theoretical debates within an expanded field of photography. You will be introduced to current debates on contemporary photography and encouraged to expand and innovate your own practice within a local and global context.

Career pathways

Our MA/MFA Photography course enjoys extensive links with a number of photographic, media and fine art professionals, curators, publishers, specialist printers and book designers. These connections enrich your experience through visiting lecturer and seminar programmes.

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Application information

Entry requirements

A good honours degree or equivalent qualification in a related discipline and/or Relevant work experience, demonstrating your ability to study at postgraduate level Consideration will also be given to applicants who can make a strong case for admission in relation to a particular project and can demonstrate their potential to satisfactorily complete the course. For this course we will need to see your portfolio for review, for more details please see the portfolio requirements section. English language (IELTS or equivalent): 6.5 overall with no less than 5.5 in any section.

Domestic applicants: GBP 13,150 a year (2027/28). Tuition for the course as listed on the course page; UK home fee; fee shown is for the first year of study Source

International applicants: GBP 20,600 a year (2027/28). Tuition for the course as listed on the course page; fee shown is for the first year of study Source

Intake: September 2027

Duration: 1 year full-time

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