Jewellery and Metal MA: Fees & Entry Requirements at Royal College of Art, UK

Jewellery and Metal MA

UK

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What will I learn?

Develop your creative jewellery and metal practice within the material- and research-led processes of Applied Art. Advance your creativity and critical thinking with a wide range of insights from arts and design practitioners, theorists and historians. Follow in the footsteps of our RCA jewellery alumni who work internationally in fine art, applied art, design and fashion. Jewellery offers us the opportunity to understand our relationship with the things that surround us. Metal makes up more than 80% of the periodic table, offering limitless potential for innovation in material possibility. Studying this programme, you’ll explore the intersections of the social, technological, art and science. Our MA Jewellery and Metal uniquely provides academic expertise across art, design, and fine art within a world-leading school of the arts, fostering creativity and experimental making. We merge art and design, the material and immaterial, and the digital and analogue.

Which department am I in?

School of Arts & Humanities

Study options

Full Time (1 Year)

Tuition fees
£43,000.00 (46,85,117) per year
Cost of living - Estimated annual costs lower range: £15,200 Estimated annual costs upper range: £35,688

This is a fixed fee
Application deadline

02/06/2027

Start date

September 2027

Venue

Royal College of Art- Battersea Campus

1 Hester Road,

London,

SW11 4AY, London, United Kingdom

Entry requirements

For international students

Candidates are selected entirely on merit and applications are welcomed from all over the world. The selection process considers creativity, imagination and innovation as demonstrated in your portfolio, as well as your potential to benefit from the programme and to achieve high MA standards overall.We seek to recruit students who are talented, enthusiastic, energetic, professionally minded, with an open and critical approach to design and making. You must possess a good undergraduate degree (or non-UK equivalent qualification) in metalwork, jewellery or a related subject, such as textiles, sculpture, architecture and industrial design. Your application should be supported by good, preferably academic, references and you should possess a range of practical skills. Equivalent professional experience or apprenticeships are also taken into account.Applications may be considered from candidates without formal training and/or qualifications in other subjects, but you must clearly demonstrate an understanding of the subject area and potential to bring expertise and knowledge from another discipline that would contribute to the Jewellery & Metal group dynamic.Portfolio requirementsPersonal statementPlease provide a 300-word written personal statement that addresses the following points:Introduce yourself, your interests and your motivations for applying to the Royal College of Art, and to this programme in particular.Briefly summarise any educational background and professional experience to date that will support your application.Tell us what you want to do in the future.Video requirements

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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