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MDes - Master of Design
Plymouth University
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
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MDes - Master of Design
Plymouth University
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
Select a an exam type
This programme aligns with contemporary trends stressing the role of designers for global prosperity, driving innovation and speculating with new, sustainable and material futures. The MDes allows you to engage with students from cognate areas such as MA Experience Design, and emerging technological innovation spaces influencing and impacting design practice, such as Creative Media, Architecture or Games Design.
Key features
Careers with this subject
Our design projects and programme develops and creates adaptable graduates with a variety of industry skills, who are knowledgeable and professionally aligned to today's job opportunities. Our masters could lead to a career as a startup, a consultant or designer working in a design agency, urban and interior design, a service designer or bespoke maker, or many other roles in the industry. Your transferable creative and technology skills could also lead to employment as a designer, consultant or employee in other creative and tech industries. Career development, entrepreneurship and employability are integral to the course through partnerships with industry and public sector partners.
A 2:2 degree in Design (or similar design-related discipline such as Product Design, Digital Design, Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Interior Design, among others). Suitable references from previous academic institutions and/or employers. Applications must include a portfolio of work. Ideally, the portfolio of work includes evidence of work experience in the design sector.
Students living in
Domestic
£9,700 per year
Students from Domestic
This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
£18,150 per year
Students from EU
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.
£18,150 per year
Students from International
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from a country outside the EU.
The University of Plymouth’s campus is centrally located within Britain’s Ocean City, perched on the south western coast of Devon...