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MDes Design

UK

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What will I learn?

This programme aligns with contemporary trends stressing the role of designers for global prosperity, driving innovation and speculating with new, sustainable and material futures. The MDes allows you to engage with students from cognate areas such as MA Experience Design, and emerging technological innovation spaces influencing and impacting design practice, such as Creative Media, Architecture or Games Design.

Key features

  • Personalise your masters. Choose an exit award to reflect your interest in a specific area of expertise.
  • Explore modern specalisations. You will develop design projects aligned with contemporary and emerging specialisations in the design sector such as interiors, products and new materials.
  • Choose your format. You can choose the final format of your research project, options include standard text-based dissertations, a design business proposal or a body of exhibited creative work.
  • Live projects. Gain valuable experience working on live projects with partners across Plymouth and abroad, respondng to real contexts and ethical issues.
  • Collaborate. Engage with students from areas such as experience design, architecture, creative media and games design.
  • Learn by doing. Through a process of learning-by-doing, students develop the skills required to produce creative outputs and research-oriented studies, gain an understanding of the application of technical knowledge to creative situations, and explore how theory and action inform each other.

Careers with this subject

Our design projects and programme develops and creates adaptable graduates with a variety of industry skills, who are knowledgeable and professionally aligned to today's job opportunities. Our masters could lead to a career as a startup, a consultant or designer working in a design agency, urban and interior design, a service designer or bespoke maker, or many other roles in the industry. Your transferable creative and technology skills could also lead to employment as a designer, consultant or employee in other creative and tech industries. Career development, entrepreneurship and employability are integral to the course through partnerships with industry and public sector partners.

Which department am I in?

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Study options

Full Time (1 year)

Tuition fees
拢18,150.00 (US$ 23,439) per year
This is a fixed fee

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please

Start date

September 2025

Venue

Plymouth University

Drake Circus,

Plymouth,

PL4 8AA, SOUTHERN ENGLAND, England

Entry requirements

For international students

A 2:2 degree in Design (or similar design-related discipline such as Product Design, Digital Design, Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Interior Design, among others). Suitable references from previous academic institutions and/or employers. Applications must include a portfolio of work. Ideally, the portfolio of work includes evidence of work experience in the design sector. If your first language is not English then evidence of English proficiency is required. The minimum IELTS score for acceptable English proficiency for entry is normally 6.5 with a minimum 5.5 in all four components. TOEFL iBT score of 90 with component scores of listening 17, reading 18, speaking 20, writing 18.

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

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About University of Plymouth

The University of Plymouth has been awarded Gold ratings across the board in the latest round of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF 2023).

  • 4th in UK (Unifresher Ultimate Alternative University 2023)
  • 7th in the UK for Best University (2022 StudentCrowd award)
  • 139,000 alumni across 135 countries
  • Gold in latest Teaching Excellence Framework (2023)