Our academic courses are designed to provide a one of a kind education into creative technologies whilst creating a more inclusive sector and region. 

We have the very latest in creative technology qualifications on offer through our Immersive Master’s Programmes as well as being able to provide scholarships to those from under-represented backgrounds looking to study in areas linked to the creative technologies industry. 

Flexible study options

Study full-time over the course of one year or study two/three years part-time.

Practical skills

These programmes will provide you with an opportunity to learn practical skills and become an expert in the field.

Thriving industry

The immersive, creative and technology industries are thriving in Bristol and the region, which makes this city an ideal place to study.

Courses available

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University of Bristol, MA Immersive Arts (Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality)

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Awards available: MA , PG Certificate (Postgraduate Certificate), PG Diploma (Postgraduate Diploma) Programme length: One year full-time; Two or three years part-time
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University of Bristol, MSc Immersive Technologies (Virtual and Augmented Reality)

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Immersive Technologies are transforming how we consume, interact, and experience digital information and media. Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) are now being used across numerous and diverse industries, from games and entertainment; theatre and live events; museums and heritage; marketing, advertising, and tourism; architecture, product development, and design; through to simulation and healthcare. This degree will enable you to translate your knowledge and skills to make engaging immersive content and interactive experiences for diverse audiences. Programme length: One year full-time; Two or three years part-time.
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Bath Spa University, MSc Creative Computing

MSc, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

MSc Creative Computing aims to develop high-value postgraduates that can enhance the output and trajectory of any digital agency. You'll be taught the key skills needed to conduct creative research, shape a product to 'market ready' stage, and collaborate productively with practitioners within unfamiliar fields.
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Bath Spa University, MA Sound (Design)

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Explore the creative use of sound within film, TV, animation, gaming, theatre and other audiovisual media with this forward-thinking sound design course. The course focuses on the more creative aspects of sound design and advanced audio workflows. It provides you with the necessary technical skills to create work that you’re passionate about – without stylistic boundaries.
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Bath Spa University, MA Sound (Production)

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Are you an aspiring musician, composer or producer? MA Sound (Production) is designed to enable you to refine your craft and build a professional portfolio to help you thrive in the sound and music industry.
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Bath Spa University, MA Sound (Composition and Sonic Art)

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Explore sound and music at an advanced level, and focus on the areas that interest you most. This course develops your core skills, such as working with instruments and sonic objects, notational strategies, soundscape recording, sound design, spatial audio, sound design, and interactive audio (e.g. for live performance, gaming, VR, immersive environments, and installations).
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Bath Spa University, MA Scriptwriting

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Take your writing to the highest level, and develop clear strategies for professional success. With a combination of expert guidance and peer-group workshopping, you’ll develop your unique voice as you learn to meet the demands of a highly competitive industry. The course will help you to become a more adept scriptwriter, able to work across theatre, radio, film, and television. Along with a comprehensive training in key writing skills, you’ll develop your critical thinking, creative dexterity, and coherent strategies for professional progress.
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Bath Spa University, MSc Cyber Security

MSc, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

This Cyber Security course focuses on the operational level decisions that business and public sector leaders need to make in order to develop, monitor and evaluate cost effective cyber risk management strategies. You’ll learn to formulate digital-era leadership techniques that deliver genuine business benefits.
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Bath Spa University, MA Commercial Music

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

With the Commercial Music MA, you'll build on your current skills and experience whilst focusing on a particular area of the music industry: Songwriting, Music Production or the Music Business.
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Bath Spa University, MA Performance Music

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Performers learn from each other. On Bath Spa Uni's MA Performance (Music) course, you’ll develop your own specific skill set, but also work with directors, conductors, instrumentalists, and creative producers to develop your work and ideas. Along with students from other MA Performance pathways, you’ll become part of their in-house Bath Spa Productions company - a company of unique talents that are individually and collectively developed.
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Bath Spa University, MA Fine Art

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

MA Fine Art (Media) at Bath Spa will encourage you to experiment and take risks before going on to establish your own strategy for practice. You’ll develop skills and knowledge through a combination of practice, research and professional development.
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Bath Spa University, MA Design (Graphics)

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

This is a practical Master’s in Graphic Design, grounded in professional development and research. We encourage you to work independently and collaboratively, with and alongside students of visual communication, illustration, photography, and other Design and Fine Art specialisms.
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Bath Spa University, MA Design (Illustration)

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

This is a practical postgraduate course in Illustration, grounded in professional development and research. You’ll produce illustration projects in a collaborative and creative environment, working with and alongside students of Visual Communication, Photography, and other Design and Fine Art specialisms.
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University of the West of England, MA Virtual & Extended Realities

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

MA Virtual and Extended Realities is an industry-led course designed to address increased demand for expertise in immersive storytelling. The course is open to passionate graduates who want to enter the radical world of virtual, augmented and extended reality production.
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University of the West of England, MSc Computational Architecture

MSc, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Study an experimental course that applies computational modelling and digital fabrication. Apply your skills to simulations, solving architectural problems in a design studio environment. Benefit from our industry partnerships, learning from experts in practice through workshops and guest lectures.
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University of the West of England, MSc Artificial Intelligence

MSc, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Study UWE's real-world focused MSc Artificial Intelligence course and gain all the skills and experience you need to start your career in this intellectually-stimulating and fast-growing profession.
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University of the West of England, MSc Commercial Games Development

MSc, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

A unique opportunity to gain advanced games development and research skills, by working on live commercial projects alongside the PlayWest studio.
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University of the West of England ,MA Animation

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Learn your craft from internationally renowned practitioners. UWE have excellent links with the region's animation industry - including Aardman Animations - and students have the opportunity to get feedback on their films from leading industry professionals.
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University of the West of England, MA Journalism

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Study UWE's real-world, practice-focused Master's in Journalism, accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC). Supported by the unique BBC Mentor scheme, UWE's MA Journalism teaches students the skills they need to become the multimedia news and investigative journalists of the future.
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University of the West of England, MA Photography

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Art and industry combine on this innovative, practice-based postgraduate course, designed to develop your creative promise, deepen your experience of photography and moving image, and optimise both your artistic and professional potential.
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University of the West of England, MA Wildlife Filmmaking

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

This postgraduate degree has been co-designed by UWE Bristol academics along with producers, directors and production managers from the BBC's world renowned Natural History Unit (NHU).
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University of the West of England, MA/MFA Curating

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

This well-connected degree is for those wishing to explore curating and develop curatorial skills in one or more of the following areas: fine art, digital media, film, festivals and social history.
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University of the West of England, MA Fine Art

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

MA Fine Art at UWE Bristol is designed for individuals who wish to pursue their practice to a professional level and gain knowledge and insight into contemporary art practice and debates. This course provides a structure to enable you to extend your practical, critical, contextual and theoretical knowledge of Fine Art and gain skills and experience in order to operate in professional contexts beyond University.
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University of the West of England, MA Graphic Arts

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

This creative and experimental MA in Graphic Arts brings together graphic designers, illustrators, and individuals from related industries to engage with communication design practice at a deeper level. You will research, investigate and debate the nature and dynamics of communication, and explore how they can produce meaningful outcomes using conventional and unconventional forms.
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University of the West of England, MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking at UWE Bristol is best known for its experimental, forward-thinking approach to printmaking today and the future of the printed artefact. With a focus on making, you can explore and experiment with a diverse mix of traditional and emerging fine art printmaking media and develop ideas through processes such as laser cutting, enamelling, electronics, wood engraving and lithography.
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University of the West of England, MArch Architecture

MArch, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

This Master of Architecture, RIBA part II, ranks among the top 20 in the UK. You'll take part in live projects with genuine client briefs, in well equipped studios and workshops, and choose from three specialisms in your second year to develop an individually distinctive portfolio.
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University of Bath, MSc Data Science

MSc, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Improve your employability for roles in data science with specialist knowledge in machine learning, statistics and software technology with University of Bath's MSc.
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University of Bath, MSc Computer Science

MSc, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Improve your employability with practical and theoretical knowledge of computer science, ready for a career in industry with University of Bath's MSc.
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University of Bath, MSc Data Science and Statistics

MSc, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

Develop a strong foundation in the theory and practice of data science, and learn specialist skills in statistics ready for a career in industry with University of Bath's MSc.
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University of Bristol, MSc Computer Science (Conversion)

MSc, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

This MSc conversion programme is for students from a variety of academic backgrounds who have little or no previous academic computing experience. We would, however, encourage prospective students to try a basic online course in programming (in any language) before applying so that they can confirm they have both the appetite and aptitude for this discipline.
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University of Bristol, MA Composition of Music for Film and Television

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

This programme provides professional training in composition for screen media. Taught by staff and guest composers from the professional world, you will develop a strong technological foundation in the subject, along with specialist understanding of television and screen scoring.
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University of Bristol, MA Creative Writing

MA, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

The MA in Creative Writing at Bristol is designed for writers who would like to begin publishing their work. In warm, supportive workshops, you will be helped to improve your writing and in lectures and seminars you will increase your understanding of the industrial and critical contexts of contemporary literature.
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University of Bristol, MSc Data Science

MSc Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

If you want to improve the world through the responsible use of data, the MSc in Data Science will give you the skills to do so. You will learn how to understand, in depth, the computational and statistical principles of modern data science and be skilled at the rigorous and ethical application of these techniques to real-world challenges.
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University of Bristol, MA Film and Television

MA Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

This distinctive and exciting programme integrates textual and historical approaches to the study of film and television with filmmaking practice. As a student on this innovative course, you will engage with critical and theoretical perspectives and develop analysis skills at a high level. You will also have the opportunity to learn the skills of filmmaking, working intensively in small groups to explore narrative and aesthetic possibilities and gain insights into the craft and industry of screen media. You will encounter a range of different research methods and be supported as you progress to independent learning and individual practice.
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University of Bristol, MSc Image and Video Communications and Signal Processing

MSc Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

This challenging programme covers a range of advanced topics in multimedia signal processing and communications. These include the properties and limitations of modern communication channels and networks, alongside the coding and compression methods required for efficient and reliable wired and wireless audio-visual transmission. It provides an excellent opportunity to acquire the skills you will need for a career in one of the most dynamic and exciting fields in information and communications technology (ICT).
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University of Bristol, MA Music

MA Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma

There are five pathways in this flexible MA programme: - Performance - Composition - Musicology - Medieval Music - Russian Music The units you take will vary according to your chosen pathway, but all include shared training units, such as Research Skills for Musicians, specialised units specific to the pathway, and a large menu of optional units tailored to your interests. These are followed by a major project: a dissertation or edition for musicologists (including those on the Russian Music and Medieval Music pathways), a recital for performers, or a portfolio of compositions for composers.
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