Cultural & Creative Industries MA

at King's College London

Standard requirements

A minimum High 2:1 undergraduate degree with a final mark of at least 65% or above.
 

If you have a lower degree classification, or a degree in an unrelated subject, your application may be considered if you can demonstrate significant relevant work experience, or offer a related graduate qualification (such as a Masters or PGDip).
 

Other requirements
 

Bachelor’s degree with high 2:1 honours (i.e. overall average of at least 65% across all years of study) in any discipline. For those returning to study, evidence of appropriate experience will be required.
 

In order to meet the academic entry requirements for this programme you should have a minimum high 2:1 undergraduate degree with a final mark of at least 65% or above in the UK marking scheme. If you are still studying you should be achieving an average of at least 65% or above in the UK marking scheme.
 

Please note: Meeting the minimum requirements for your application to be considered does not guarantee an offer as applications for this programme are very competitive.

Structure

Required modules

Course is divided into modules. You will normally take modules totaling 180 credits.You are required to take:

• Analysing the Cultural & Creative Industries: Theories, Definitions, Debates (30 credits)
• Analysing the Cultural & Creative Industries: Policies, Creativity, Labour (30 credits)
   

Research Approaches and Dissertation (60 credits) choosing from the following pathways:

Choose one of the following:
i) Traditional Dissertation Pathway
ii) Collaborative Dissertation with Cultural Partner Pathway
iii) Creative Research Project Pathway
 

Optional modules

In addition, you are required to take 60 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

• Collecting Cultures: Managing collections in museums and collecting organisations (15 credits)
• Exhibitions, Identities and Politics: in Museums, Galleries and other Cultural Spaces (15 credits)
• Cultural Policy (15 credits)
• Contextualising Creativity (15 credits)
• Creatives: Working in the Cultural Industries (15 credits)
• Culture and the City (15 credits)
• Cultural Markets (15 credits)
• The Aesthetic Economy and Aesthetic Markets (15 credits)
• Art and Globalisation (15 credits)
• Readings of the Music Business (15 credits)
• International Heritage & Cultural Tourism (15 credits)
• Entertainment Industries (15 credits)
• Children, Media Industries and Culture (15 credits)
• Future Memory: Creating Connected Worlds (15 credits)
• Gender and Sexualities in East Asian Media (15 credits)
• Immersive Media and Extended Realities (15 credits)
• The Entrepreneurial Opportunity - Arts and Culture (selective entry) (15 credits)
• Festivals: Arts, Public Spaces and Community (15 credits)
• Gender, Media and Culture (15 credits)
• Conflict, Diplomacy & International Relations (15 credits)
• Cultural Memory (15 credits)
• Gaming Industries and Cultures (15 credits)
   

UK:

Full time: £11,040 per year
 

International:

Full time: £25,950 per year 
These tuition fees may be subject to additional increases in subsequent years of study, in line with King’s terms and conditions.
 

Deposit

When you receive an offer for this course you will be required to pay a non-refundable deposit to secure your place. The deposit will be credited towards your total fee payment.
 

The UK deposit is £500.
 

The International deposit is £2,000. 

Our graduates take the skills and knowledge they develop with us to a wide range of roles in the cultural and creative industries. Our previous graduates have taken up roles in arts administration in local government, marketing for a major cultural institution in London, editing a lifestyle magazine in the US, and researching for China’s broadcasting industry regulator.
 

Further career paths have included performing arts management, museum and gallery management, arts funding, cultural industries development, film distribution, freelance research and creative business development. A number of our students have gone on to further academic research.