MA/MFA Creative Arts Practice - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Courses

MA/MFA Creative Arts Practice

Course Details

Study from anywhere in the world. Delivered through blended or fully online learning, this one-year programme will help you shape your creative identity, develop critical thinking skills and build a sustainable career in the performing and production arts.

This one-year, practice-led, modular programme for creative graduates will evolve your practice and enhance employability in a world-leading performing and production arts education environment.

As contemporary creative artists often work across and beyond the traditional boundaries of artistic disciplines, the focus will be on bespoke, individual learning.

You will engage in critical inquiry to identify meaningful goals and develop essential knowledge, skills and attitudes for success in your artistic journey.

Throughout the programme, you will have the opportunity to build a professional network and receive support to critically engage with your practice in order to transform your creative identity.

It will also help you enhance your skills for freelance work, employment with creative agencies or further academic study, while expanding your professional network.

This is a flexible programme, where you’ll work alongside RCS lecturers and industry experts, as well as our network of national and international partners.

The MA is designed to integrate with your existing arts practice and includes a significant amount of student-led learning. It will be complemented by intensive residencies at the beginning and end of the programme, as well as online delivery, one-to-one support, and peer group learning.

Subjects

Join us from anywhere in the world – the programme can be completed entirely online or combined with in-person residency intensives. You also have the option to take accredited short courses to add to your learning experience.

The programme is delivered in modules, where you’ll be supported by RCS lecturers and industry experts to critically engage with your practice and to refine your identity as thinker, maker and leader.

The modular structure follows the thematic route of Situating Practice and Cultures and Context. This leads to modular content which enables you to focus on Expanding Practice. The final module culminates in Synthesising Practice.

This will conclude with the presentation of a piece of work-in-development that synthesises the knowledge and skills you have acquired on the programme as part of your emerging praxis as an artist.

Auditions

Apply via UCAS Conservatoires
Applications are made through UCAS Conservatoires website. The UCAS Conservatoires application system is separate from the main UCAS undergraduate application system. You can read our guidance about using UCAS Conservatoires on our dedicated How to Apply page.

Applicants will also be required to create an Acceptd account when they apply, which will be used for scheduling auditions. More information about this process will be available soon.

We do not offer deferred entry. If you wish to commence in 2026, you must apply next year.

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland institution code is R58. You will also require the following programmes codes to apply: MA Full-Time – 219F; Part-Time – 214P / MFA Full-Time – 224F; Part-Time – 224p

Application/Audition fees
There is a UCAS application fee of £28.95 to register to use UCAS Conservatoires.