MA Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Our degree is delivered through a series of hands-on units designed to build your entrepreneurial toolkit for the creative industries. The programme is structured across three distinct phases, and assessment is based entirely on real-world individual and group coursework, with no traditional exams.

Term 1: Becoming a creative innovator.

The first term focuses on mastering the core skills of innovation within a creative context. We will teach you how to use human-centred design to understand your audience, conduct research to develop successful creative concepts, and build the foundations to become a leader in your chosen creative field.

Term 2: Applying your creative vision.

In the second teaching block, you will apply your learning in two high-impact, real-world business scenarios:

• Act as a management consultant, working for a real-world industry partner to solve a creative brief.
• Become a founder, building a compelling proposal for a new internal venture or spin-out with your team.

Summer: Launching your creative venture.

Your final summer project is a launchpad for your career. It is the culmination of your learning, where you will develop and present a viable new creative product, service, or venture ready to take its next step in business and the arts.

Visit our programme catalogue for full details of the structure and unit content for our MA in Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in any discipline.

If you are currently completing a degree, we understand that your final grade may be higher than the interim grades or module/unit grades you have achieved during your studies to date.

We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree.

We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirement.

If your achieved grade is lower than our entry requirements, your application may be more likely to receive an offer if you have additional relevant work experience or qualifications. If you have at least one of the following, please include your CV (curriculum vitae / résumé) when you apply, showing:

• six months paid or unpaid experience working in a relevant field, such as: advertising, architecture, crafts, creative agency work, designer, fashion/textiles manufacture or design (not simply retail), film, games and TV production, heritage, musician, music production, performing arts/theatre, radio, visual arts (as a maker or curator), or writing and publishing
• a relevant postgraduate qualification.

See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.