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20 Master's degrees offered by the university

Design Innovation and Transformation Design
The Design Innovation and Transformation Design, MDes course from The Glasgow School of Art focuses on change-oriented approaches to design, which engage with complex social or systemic issues.

Communication Design
The Master of Design (M.Des) in Communication Design at The Glasgow School of Art is a two year programme delivered by the Department of Communication Design at Glasgow School of Art.

Heritage Visualisation
The Heritage Visualisation program from The Glasgow School of Art equips candidates with an understanding of current critical heritage debates focusing on the digital domain, as well as the practical skills required to digitally document and re-visualise a range of heritage sites and objects of local, national and international significance.

Design Innovation and Interaction Design
The way people today experience their environment and interact with others is often mediated through new technologies. This master degree in Design Innovation and Interaction Design is offered at The Glasgow School of Art.

Interior Design
The Interior Design Master programme at The Glasgow School of Art focuses on practice and research-based learning, aiming to develop independently minded designers who challenge society and the field of interior design in new ways.

Design Innovation and Environmental Design
The focus of this unique Design Innovation and Environmental Design at The Glasgow School of Art is the potential for design to shape how we interact with the spaces we inhabit. In recent decades, our experience of space and place has been radically transformed, as people travel further and more frequently than ever before.

Design Innovation and Citizenship
The Masters in Design Innovation and Citizenship at The Glasgow School of Art explores the relationship between design practice and contemporary society and encourages a design-led critique of the present.

Architecture
The Diploma in Architecture programme from The Glasgow School of Art is studio based and project driven.

Master of Research
This Master of Research, MRes course from The Glasgow School of Art is a postgraduate research degree, which provides students with the opportunity to design and undertake a discrete research project, either ‘by practice’ or ‘by Thesis’.

Graphics, Illustration, Photography
The Graphics, Illustration, Photography, MDes course from The Glasgow School of Art focus of your study is specific to the discipline applied for and does not include the other pathways in your study.

Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy
Accredited by the Institute of Medical Illustrators, the MSc in Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy is a one-year taught postgraduate programme offered by the School of Innovation and Technology at The Glasgow School of Art in collaboration with the Anatomy department in the School of Life Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Contemporary Art Practice
This Contemporary Art Practice, M.Litt. course from The Glasgow School of Art is a one-year postgraduate programme designed to both challenge and support students in exploring how their artistic practices can be activated, with the goal of building sustainable careers as artists or creative practitioners beyond their time on the programme.

Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art)
This Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) programme, established in 2014 and jointly run by The Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow, offers students the opportunity to study curatorial practice in Glasgow, a city with a vibrant and distinctive international art scene.

Design Innovation and Circular Economy
This Design Innovation and Circular Economy, MDes course from The Glasgow School of Art focusses on the key ecological and social design aspects of the circular economy.

Fine Art
A Fine Art two-year programme of study offers students from The Glasgow School of Art an opportunity to analyse their creative practice in depth, and to modify, develop and secure it accordingly.

Serious Games and Virtual Reality
The Serious Games and Virtual Reality at The Glasgow School of Art provides students with the skills to become key innovators in this exciting and rapidly developing area.

Product Design Engineering
The MSc in Product Design Engineering at The Glasgow School of Art brings together two cultures - the studio and creative environment of one of Europe's leading art schools - the GSA and the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow - a world top 100 university (QS World Ranking).

International Management and Design Innovation
This masters International Management and Design Innovation programme is offered by The University of Glasgow and taught in partnership with The Glasgow School of Art.

Design Innovation and Service Design
At the School of Innovation and Technology from The Glasgow School of Art, Design Innovation and Service Design is taught as a means of applying design processes to complex problems, combining artefacts and interactions to produce services that exist, unfold and evolve in both space and time.

Sound for the Moving Image
The Masters of Sound for the Moving Image at The Glasgow School of Art offers the opportunity for postgraduate students to engage with the craft and creative practice of sound production applied to film, animation, television, new media, electronic games and visual art, as well as equipping students with the tools required to develop a research project within this field.