MA User Experience Design at University for the Creative Arts

Programme overview

Delve deeper into the world of UX on UCA's MA User Experience Design degree course. This UX course runs alongside other communications courses to form a suite of specialist and mutually informing areas of research. Through the development of your own personal research and professional engagement, you’ll explore the creative potential of User Experience Design to question and affect the interactive systems that support and inform our digital experiences, including interface design, usability and human computer interactions. 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 User Experience Design equips you with the skills and competences to help you become a research-led, interdisciplinary and human-centred designer, ready for advanced practice or study — and the challenges and opportunities of the future. User experience is about with how people feel when engaging with a designed product, service, system or space, how they interpret and respond to it.

Career pathways

Graduates of this exciting course might develop their career in a number of different creative and business industries. These might include: UX design manager, UX researcher, Visual designer, Usability tester, Interaction designer.

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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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