What will I learn?

Overview

Build interdisciplinary expertise whilst exploring your specific interests within the long and diverse history of esotericism, witchcraft, ritual magic, occult science, and related topics.
Join our dynamic postgraduate community benefiting from research-inspired teaching led by a range of top scholars from different fields.
Our prestigious Centre for Magic and Esotericism welcomes MA students to monthly meetings and local field trips.
Graduate with the skills to and knowledge needed to influence and drive business strategies that make a positive contribution to the environment and society.

Teaching and research

This MA is centred around interdisciplinary learning. You will be taught by active researchers with leading global expertise and will be co-supervised by two supervisors from different disciplines.

Our research-led teaching is combined with practical experiences such as field trips and monthly meetings with our Centre for Magic and Esotericism.

You have the freedom to build your own programme to suit your own interests. For your personal dissertation you can opt for primarily text-based, historical, or social-science methodologies on the ARAM027 dissertation module (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies) or employ primarily performative and practice-based methodologies on the DRAM080 dissertation module (Drama Department).

Careers

Our MA programme is designed to develop skills to prepare you for a wide range of professions, or further study into PhD level. You will develop invaluable transferable skills, including creative thinking, analytical thinking, curiosity and lifelong learning, resilience, flexibility and agility, motivation and self-awareness.

This MA can lead you to a diverse range of careers, examples include: teaching, counselling, mentoring, heritage and museum work, work in libraries, tourism, arts organisations, the publishing industry, social justice and environmental think tanks, spiritual and wellbeing guidance, writing and media, the arts, and further research.

Which department am I in?

Arab and Islamic Studies

Study options

Full Time (1 year)

Tuition fees

£24,300.00 (26,47,636) per year

This is a fixed fee

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution

Start date

September 2025

Venue

Streatham Campus

Northcote House,

Queen's Drive,

Exeter,

Devon,

EX4 4QJ, SOUTHERN ENGLAND, England

Entry requirements

For international students

We will consider applicants with a 2:2 Honours degree with 53% or above in a social sciences or humanities discipline. While we normally only consider applicants who meet this criteria, if you are coming from a different academic background which is equivalent to degree level, or have relevant work experience, we would welcome your application. IELTS: 6.5 overall and no less than 6 in any section; TOEFL iBT and TOEFL iBT Home Edition and TOEFL iBT Paper Edition: 90 with minimum scores of 21 for writing,listening, reading and speaking. MyBest scores are not accepted.

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