Integrated Master’s Combined Arts MA (Online)

Creativity is not just confined to campus. Falmouth University has been a leading creative institution for over 100 years and a pioneer in online study since 2016.

Time investment: 3 years full-time

Cost: £31,200

Language: English

About this degree

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Fuse disciplines to find your unique voice

Build a robust theoretical foundation while enjoying the freedom to explore independent research.

You’ll develop a versatile toolkit that allows you to pivot between creative roles, ensuring your career is as dynamic as your imagination.

This new Integrated Master’s gives you the rare opportunity to merge undergraduate and postgraduate study into one efficient, three-year journey, spanning design, writing, illustration, and fine art.

Master complex problem-solving at speed

Step into the professional world ahead of your peers with a postgraduate qualification achieved in an accelerated timeframe. With a problem-based curriculum design moves beyond traditional learning, challenging you to apply diverse academic perspectives to real-world issues facing the industry today.

You’ll cultivate the agility to tackle complex briefs with ease, refining your ability to understand and utilise various creative research methodologies.

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Shape your degree around your life

Experience the freedom of a personalised learning journey that adapts to your ambitions rather than forcing you to relocate.

Creative potential shouldn’t be limited by your past subject choices, which is why this programme welcomes ambitious thinkers from STEM, humanities, and arts backgrounds into a collaborative online space.

You’ll walk away with a connected global community of diverse practitioners, building career-defining relationships that transcend borders and disciplines.

Where you’ll be studying

Study at Falmouth University

Creativity is not just confined to campus. Falmouth University has been a leading creative institution for over 100 years and a pioneer in online study since 2016.

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Learning outcomes

Strive for creative growth

Grapple with complex challenges through a transdisciplinary lens, applicable in a range of creative industries.

Learn in your best way

Decide your own learning boundaries to make yours an exciting, and effective learning experience.

Complete research that matters

Become adept at understanding the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to creative research.

Solve complex problems

Overcome challenges with ease by utilising a problem-based learning approach.

Cultivate creative mastery

Gain advanced, specialist research-based skills as you develop your research or creative capacities.

Additional information

You enter this programme at a BA degree level, requiring: minimum 96 UCAS Tariff points. If you’re applying without UCAS Tariff points you can apply with formal or 'certified' learning (such as training courses not run by universities or colleges), learning from work experience or self-study.

For applicants whose first language is English we require you to have or be working towards GCSE English Language Grade 4 (C), or equivalent.

If English is not your first language you’ll need an IELTS Academic 6.0 overall score, with at least 5.5 in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening. We accept a range of in-country equivalencies and approved tests.

The degree is accredited by Falmouth University. You will graduate with an MA Integrated Master's Combined Arts: Creativity or MA Integrated Master's Combined Arts: Design Fundamentals.

Graduating from this programme can lead to a number of career outcomes, such as:

Production management
Information Technology Professionals
Multimedia designers
Quality assurance technicians
Web design
Design technician roles
Arts officers, producers and directors
Photographic, audio-visual and broadcast operations
Artists and/or performer
Graphic Design
Project management

All applicants are invited to an online interview to give you the opportunity to demonstrate what inspires and motivates you in your field. Applications from all subject backgrounds are welcomed, whether you've specialised in STEM, the arts or humanities.

The cost of this 3 year full-time online degree is £31,200, or £10,400 per year.

Tuition assistance

If you are a UK student, the Integrated Master’s course is eligible for UK Government undergraduate funding, including tuition fees for the full duration of the course. Additionally, you will not need to apply for a separate loan to cover the cost of the final (master’s) year.

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Modules

This degree has modules broken into the three years of the program. Each year and the modules are listed below.

The Art of Problem-Based Learning (shared): this module will take you through each step of how problem-based learning works.

Places and Spaces: Community, Identity and Change (shared): communicate ideas and present them to a diverse audience of stakeholders as you respond to real-world challenges.  

Visualise and Innovate: Creative Problem-Solving (Creativity course): focuses on illustration as an industry practice in the development of creative thinking, concepts and ideas.

Transformations: Imagining Community Spaces (Creativity course): inspire your imagination and ideas and develop proposals for the transformation of an existing local space to meet the diverse needs of the community. 

Bold Transformations: Extraordinary Approaches to Real-World Challenges (Design Fundamentals course): adopt a bold, curious and experimental approach to a problem-based case study as a visual communicator.

Collaboration (shared): experience working in a collaborative team, reflective of industry practice. You will work in online teams with other students across disciplines such as visual communication, business and illustration, all working towards complex solutions to industry focussed, real-life problems.

The Creative Cultural Sphere (shared): develop a working knowledge of the key factors that influence wellbeing and your responsibility as a creative practitioner to approach your practice and communication in this context.

The Entrepreneurial Creative (shared): uses the problem-based learning approach to help you scaffold and develop your own business plan to set goals for a sustainable career.

Future Skills (shared): cultivate your professional skills and develop an entrepreneurial mindset.

Final Major Project (shared): a springboard into the final year of study, and a point of reflection in your personal distance travelled as a creative practitioner through years one and two of the course. 

Creativity Unbound: Perspectives and Voices on Nature and Place (Creativity course): explore boundaries and cross literary, physical and thematic boundaries in a bold and adventurous way.  

Research Skills as the Foundation of Success (shared): ground your creative practice in the context of supported exposure to a range of research skills.

Practice Research by Researching Practice (Creativity course): apply your accumulated research skills from the course and realise a substantial and highly individual practice-based research project.

Sustainable Strategies (shared): investigate a variety of creative strategies involved in the production, resolution and publication of contemporary creative practice work, and reflect upon the ways in which the dissemination and contexts of your practice informs the making of work. 

The Multifaceted Art of Storytelling (shared): examine the relationship between creativity and storytelling in its various forms.

Researching Design and Studio Culture (Design Fundamentals course): investigate the fundamentals of managing the day-to-day aspects of a studio culture and to reflect on innovative ways to work at distance and in collaboration with partners around the world. 

The Design Phase Compendium (Design Fundamentals course): explore the design phases involved in creating a digital product or service in collaboration with others.

Final Major Project (shared): produce a critically, professionally and ethically informed research project.  