The University for World-Class Professionals
Manchester School of Art
Postgraduate Study 2016
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Manchester United Contents Football Club 4 The University for World-Class Professionals 8 Manchester student living 10 World-class facilities 12 Research-informed teaching Faculty of 14 Welcome to the Manchester School of Art Education Faculty of Health, 17 Manchester School of Art, where anything Psychology and Social Care is possible 20 Course structure 23 Postgraduate study 42 Accommodation and student living 44 Supporting our postgraduate students 46 Postgraduate finance 48 Entry requirements 49 Making an application 50 A warm welcome to our international students 52 International students: entry requirements 54 Manchester - at the heart of the UK
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mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate Manchester - a great university city
One of the UK’s largest and most popular universities, dedicated to providing an outstanding postgraduate experience.
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Central Library Manchester Central Manchester Art Gallery Chinatown Bridgewater Hall
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Manchester Campus located in the heart of the city 4
The University for World-Class Professionals The highest concentration of postgraduate and professional courses in the North West of England, many recognised by professional bodies and associations.
Professionally focused courses Investment in Outstanding teaching facilities Offering a comprehensive range of world-class campuses Our libraries and IT Zones have high quality academic programmes, Recent years have seen major investment extended opening hours, providing you recognised by a range of professional in state-of-the-art and environmentally with access to over 1 million library bodies and associations, Manchester sustainable buildings and facilities. books, journals, articles and e-books, and Metropolitan University has more than This included £34 million invested into more than 3,000 student PCs and Macs, 10,000 postgraduate students undertaking the School of Art which saw the creation giving you access to our outstanding academic and research programmes of a brand new building, renovation of online resources. High-tech laboratories across a wide variety of disciplines. existing buildings and the purchase of a and workshops provide you with access range of new equipment. to industry-standard equipment and We work hard to ensure that our courses technology, along with technical training provide you with the skills and knowledge A further £226 million is being invested and guidance. demanded by today’s organisations. across the University over the next seven Many programmes have been created years in additional outstanding facilities, Experts in their field in consultation with businesses and buildings and public spaces, developing Our 2,300 academic teaching staff, professional bodies to reflect the needs our student-centred, sustainable professors and researchers are of the industries they serve. campuses to ensure that you get the experienced professionals at the forefront very best from your studies and time of their fields, with well-established links with us. in their area of expertise.
An international university With an international student population IT Zones with of over 3,000, the University hosts students from over 120 different countries and has a strong global 3,000 presence. We are experts in teaching, enterprise and research, providing PCs and Macs international students with the academic experience and professional support they need to achieve their goals.
£350m Our curriculum is embedded with an international dimension to develop investment graduates with the competencies to communicate and compete in a global workforce.
mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate 3,000+ international students from 120 countries
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One of the UK’s top three greenest universities 85% >>> of research impact Vibrant location World-leading research is world-leading Manchester is one of the most extensive 85% of our research impact has or internationally higher education centres in Europe been judged as world-leading or excellent and undoubtedly the most popular city internationally excellent, and benefits for students in the UK. It is a vibrant the economy, business, society, the city of culture, music and sport and environment, culture, health, education as the world’s first industrialised city, and public policy. has its roots firmly in innovation and business. It has a strong cosmopolitan One of the UK’s greenest character and a diverse population, universities attracting students from a broad range We are proud to be one of the top of backgrounds and countries. three universities in the UK’s People and Planet University League for Thriving business and environmental and ethical performance. cultural sectors Our environmentally sustainable Our local connections are also an buildings and faculties are amongst the important part of our strength and best of any university in the UK. identity - Manchester is the UK’s largest centre for financial and professional services, as well as art, design and media, outside of London. Our students and graduates are ideally placed to take advantage of the North West’s thriving business and cultural sectors. Manchester boasts the 12th largest regional economy in Europe and is a hub for creativity.
mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate During the MA, I have enjoyed the freedom and inspiring environment of the Manchester School of Art.
Hsiao-Chu Hung MA Fine Art student from Taipei, Taiwan
Being in Manchester has really changed my thoughts of how it is to be an artist. The city has a multitude of free, interesting exhibitions and the people are open to respect a diverse range of art forms and ideas.
The course involves lectures and group discussions that help feed ideas into your own artistic practice. I particularly like the large studio space and use of dark room facilities. 8 Home to two internationally recognised Manchester football teams UK’s largest student living student One of the UK’s most popular student community outside London destinations, Manchester is a great university city with a thriving and lively student community.
Manchester student life Well-connected Music Described as the media and cultural Manchester and the region are well From niche and intimate venues to hub of the North, Manchester has much served by motorways and reliable public one of the largest arenas in Europe – to offer School of Art students. It is the transport, so other cities are within Manchester is a city steeped in music. city where culture, commerce and life easy reach and London only a two hour With a rich musical heritage, Manchester rub shoulders dynamically. Manchester train ride away. Manchester Airport is offers an eclectic variety of acts, often School of Art is located on the main just 10 miles (16km) south of the city in quirky or unusual settings, not to University campus - a prime location, centre, with flights to a huge variety of mention a calendar packed with all day just ten minutes walk into the city centre European destinations and further afield. events and festivals. which is home to numerous arts and cultural venues. Students’ Union Arts and culture Our brand new £10m Union building, Manchester offers a thriving and located in the heart of the Manchester idiosyncratic arts scene, with established campus, provides you with outstanding galleries hosting permanent collections, spaces for student events, meeting critically acclaimed exhibitions and friends, catching up on your studies, world famous artists. With a variety or joining a student club or society. of contemporary arts, a fantastic independent cinema, literary festivals and more, the city offers an exhilarating Restaurants, bars, clubs, hub of creativity. cinema and gym complex
2 hours 7 mins by Your graduation ceremony National Football train to London Corn happens here Museum Exchange Manchester Second largest City FC Chinatown in the UK
mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate Outdoor pursuits Sporting Eating out For those who want to explore beyond The city is at the heart of one of the From high-end dining experiences to the confines of the city, there is a wealth best sports regions in the UK with secret pop-up restaurants, the city is fast of stunning landscapes just a train ride regional centres of excellence for cycling, developing a reputation for its cuisine. away, in the surrounding national parks. aquatics, squash, tennis, hockey, Sample the bohemian café culture of The Peak District offers unrivalled natural gymnastics as well as well-known teams the Northern Quarter and the stylish beauty alongside a range of outdoor and facilities for football, rugby league, surroundings of Deansgate. sports, such as rock-climbing, mountain rugby union and many many more. biking, hiking and more. Manchester is famous for not one, but two internationally recognised football teams, regularly playing at the equally renowned Old Trafford and Etihad Home to stadiums. With a museum dedicated second largest to football and smaller local teams, Manchester is great for football lovers. Chinatown Brand new in UK £10m students’ union
Lots of live music Quirky independent venues across the city Art installations to Cheap travel shops be found throughout around the city the city Manchester UK’s largest inner-city Art collection United FC shopping centre over six centuries 10 10 World-class facilities for your postgraduate studies At the heart of our commitment to you is a £350 million investment which has created a world-class learning environment, at our city-centre Manchester campus and our Cheshire campus in Crewe.
We support your studies with world-class facilities including new media suites, two professional theatres with rehearsal and performance studios, clinical practice suites, sport science testing laboratories, Exceptional teaching facilities in-house 3D printers, a language centre and specialist equipment and interactive learning technology. You will be taught in state-of-the-art specialist teaching facilities in We are also one of the UK’s largest environmentally sustainable buildings providers of science, technology and that are amongst the best of any engineering courses; our high university in the UK. specification laboratories and research facilities include the latest industry Our spacious lecture theatres and standard equipment and technology. seminar rooms are equipped with the latest teaching and learning facilities. Free You will find numerous study spaces, WiFi across connected group work areas and social spaces. campus We are renowned for our postgraduate facilities in art and design, education, sport science, and the health and social work professions.
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Personalised online learning Our virtual learning environment, Moodle, is sector-leading and provides you with a range of tools to support your postgraduate studies in an online environment, bringing everything Industry-standard technology together in one place. Our technical suites are of the highest standard and you’ll have access to This includes your student email, your equipment and technology that is personalised timetable, coursework, industry-standard. teaching materials, assessment deadline Library services reminders, exams schedule, study This is a key part of your postgraduate Every year we invest millions of pounds materials, online articles, audio and and professional academic experience. in new student PCs, IT facilities and video clips. Our Manchester library has over 1 million software, and regularly update our books, articles and e-books. learning and teaching equipment to Moodle is synchronised with your ensure you have access to the very best postgraduate programme to give you You will also have online access to technology and support for your studies. personalised reading lists, assessment a huge digital library of journals Free WiFi is available across the hand-in reminders, past papers, and research papers to support your University as well as computer drop-in preliminary marks and feedback on your postgraduate study. centres and IT support. work from your tutors. The Manchester campus library has We also loan items such as netbooks, It also provides a channel for keeping recently benefitted from a multi-million laptops, camcorders, audio visual in touch with your tutors and fellow pound refurbishment, with a new equipment and projectors, free of charge. postgraduate students outside of class helpdesk, electronic book returns, chat and you can use it to find updates on zone and access to café facilities; and your fees and finance, the library, and has been winning awards for customer career development resources. service excellence since 2008.
The library is open 24-7 in term-time, with hundreds of PCs and multiple study zones spread across the five Library open floors including dedicated group working zones. 24/7 during Photographs from left to right: term-time The award-winning Benzie building; mac suites Personalised with industry standard software; School of Art reception area with exhibition spaces; open plan virtual learning studio spaces; fashion workshops with specialist industrial sewing machines; animation suite environment with stop motion facilities. 12 Research-informed teaching tackling global issues Our postgraduate and professional programmes are underpinned by a combination of industry experience and impactful research which is contributing to exploring and tackling major issues at local, national and international levels.
Our postgraduate teaching staff are World-leading hugely experienced in their specialist research with impact fields, the majority are industry Research in the UK is assessed every five professionals as well as academic years through the Research Excellence experts. This powerful combination Framework, which measures the quality ensures that what you are taught of outputs, the extent of economic and Asia Triennial Manchester will be quickly applicable in your societal impact and the sustainability of The Asia Triennial Manchester (ATM) professional environment. the research environment. 2008 and 2011 was born out of a collaboration between MIRIAD and Our research, undertaken by more than The 2014 assessment confirmed the high Manchester’s Asian Arts Agency, 1,400 staff across 12 University Research quality of our research; we were judged Shisha. The ATM is the only Asian Arts Centres, has an international reach to have world-leading research across Festival in Europe with a focus on new and significance. Our researchers are 13 different subject areas, over 200 of our work. It attracts established audiences proactively involved in developing world- researchers were rated world-leading and for art as well as those not normally class research that underpins our taught internationally excellent and we rose 12 engaged with culture through exhibits programmes of study at undergraduate places in the national rankings. 85% of in nationally important venues and in and postgraduate levels, and helps us the impact of our research was graded as locations with low levels of cultural power the knowledge economy. world-leading or internationally excellent engagement. putting us in the UK’s top 50 for the ATM has established new cultural power of our impact. partnerships and knowledge exchange that has affected gallery programming Our research has helped international and curatorial knowledge and ensured governments to reduce carbon demonstrable impact. Over 364,000 emissions from aviation; saved lives people attended events at ATM08 by transforming the rapid diagnosis of and 11 generating £12m in economic deadly microbial infections; protected activity across the North West. the human rights of millions of people The ATM has directly engaged 1,500 through changes to equality law; artists in the production of 58 entirely Over 200 researchers revolutionised the approach of every new productions. are world-leading and early years professional in the UK; internationally excellent helped thousands of regional businesses Through collaborative research, MIRIAD in 2014 REF to grow and ensured that Manchester has built local and international artistic remains a cultural powerhouse with networks, sustaining a dynamic field Sunday Times poetry, history and art. of inquiry into Asian visual cultures University Guide that is relevant to British society and interconnected with wider global fields. asiatriennialmanchester.com
mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate Arts in Healthcare - global Visual Culture, Conflict and The University’s impacts on policy and Social Change world-class research practice The Visual Culture Research Centre has facilities include: Stress, anxiety and depression are an established international reputation sadly widespread in modern society. for interdisciplinary research. A number • Two types of 3D print technology, Research has shown this can be reduced of projects have seen the application of powder printing and plastic through involvement with the arts. historical, theoretical and practice-based extrusion printing, as well as Research led by Arts for Health Director research with outside public-facing and offering access to other 3D and Manchester Met’s Clive Parkinson professionals in the creative arts. technologies, used for prototyping aimed to strengthen the capacity of the Visual Culture, Conflict and Social Change and modelling. North West regions’ Arts and Health has had significant social and cultural • 3D Body Scanner: a non-contact, 3D community through networking, training impact in exhibitions such as Weapons of measurement system that uses safe and demonstrating the link between Mass Communication 2007-8, Archiving infrared depth sensing and imaging the arts, health and societal outcomes. Place and Time 2009-10 and the current technology to produce a digital The research team worked with ESRC funded project Picturing the Social: copy of the surface geometry of the established projects in the region, Analysing Social Media Images. involving older people, people with human body. mental health issues and the built Researchers from within the unit, including • Food Safety Laboratory including environment and found that people Professor Jim Aulich, Fionna Barber and biosafety cabinet, -80°C cryofreezer, were less stressed, less anxious and Simon Faulkner, have engaged with CO2 incubator, cooled incubators, less depressed across all study groups the public, participants, practitioners, microscopes with camera facilities when engaged with the arts. interpreters, writers, and critics to promote the understanding of how images of and various diagnostic kits. Findings from the research have conflict work: that they are neither natural • Dedicated PhD study area in the contributed to UK Department of Health nor real, but sites of contestation. and Arts Council policies and it has postgraduate suite in the award- caused policy debate in the House mmu.ac.uk/research/ref/uoa34-visual- winning Business School. of Lords. Parkinson is now working cultures-case-study • Rapid prototyping machines and with supporters within the House to water jet cutters. establish an All Party Parliamentary Group for Arts and Health. The research • A new animation suite with has also impacted internationally dedicated green screen room, in policy, informing briefings to the lighting rigs, motion capture Australian Parliament and to the equipment and high-specification Lithuanian Government. PCs with industry-standard software artsforhealth.org such as Maya and Nuke. 14 Welcome to the Manchester School of Art Thank you for taking the time to consider Manchester School of Art. We know how important it is to make the right choice so we have designed a postgraduate network for our art, design and media courses that is intellectually engaging and professionally focused.
We have worked hard to create a Our professional platforms unit ensures community of artists and designers at the you have input from leading practitioners School that understand the importance of and our long-established connections to the relationships between our disciplines the cultural and economic agencies in the and are conscious of the team-based city make sure you have access to a wider nature of professional work in the creative regeneration agenda. and cultural industries. The School is also home to a range of We have an extensive collection of established architecture courses that are workshops and facilities and we take professionally accredited and linked to an the view that access to these can be extensive network of practices in the City negotiated by anyone in our artistic and beyond. community when the need arises to try a different approach. We have found that Manchester School of Architecture is from time to time, postgraduate students an innovative collaboration between need to be allowed the freedom to wander Manchester Metropolitan University beyond traditional media boundaries of and the University of Manchester that their discipline to test ideas in new ways in turn offers students access to a very or to collaborate with colleagues from diverse range of academic colleagues and other areas. We also have a culture where facilities. the research in the School is accessible and embedded in the teaching. A series We hope that you will find what you are of optional projects part way through the looking for in these pages and encourage programme led by academic researchers you to contact us if you want to discuss gives students the chance to work on anything about postgraduate study or contemporary research themes alongside living in Manchester. students from other pathways.
Professor David Crow Dean, Manchester School of Art Pro-Vice-Chancellor
mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate Manchester School of Art’s Benzie building, designed by Stirling Prize winning architects, Winner of the Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios RIBA National Award and finalist for the RIBA Stirling Prize 16 Manchester School of Art, where anything is possible We have created a School of Art that not only celebrates our 175 year history but also provides you with all the facilities you need to thrive both within and beyond your chosen discipline.
The type and range of our equipment and • Print workshops: bookbinding, In addition, you’ll be able to borrow audio facilities allows you to combine traditional traditional block printing and Risograph visual equipment including camcorders, and state-of-the-art techniques, a rare Printer. lighting, digital cameras and a range of find in art schools today. • Textile print (traditional): flatbed silk other equipment. screen printing, facilities for transfer Alongside impressive studio space, our printing and Batik. The School has its own material stores on facilities include: campus, where you can purchase items • Textile print (digital): facilities for • Ceramics: mould-making, casting and such as paper, pens, paint, sketchbooks, original and digital artwork to be throwing, glazing, digital ceramic computer storage media, fabrics, threads, printed directly onto a range of fabrics. transfer printing and firing using and haberdashery and access services electric and gas kilns. • Weave workshops: TCI digital jacquard such as binding. • Computer-aided manufacture: digital loom and an extensive range of router, laser cutters and 3D printer. equipment, from table top looms through to computer controlled • Chemical workshop: resin and alginate Dobby looms. casting, sandblasting, spraying and “I have a very healthy respect other processes involving chemicals. • Wood: a range of wood working machinery and hand power tools, for all our disciplines and have • Dye lab: for the dyeing of natural yarns plastic and foam fabrication equipment, grown to realise that we learn and fabrics and some man-made fibres. vacuum forming facilities and from each other all the time, that • Embroidery workshops: large range fabrication facilities (stretcher-making, of domestic and specialist industrial mitre-cutting and bag-pressing). the past informs the future, that embroidery machines. • Animation capture suite: computer the theory informs practice, and • Fashion workshops: cutting tables and equipment and cameras for stop practice informs theory. a variety of specialist industrial sewing motion animation. Our practices are neither linear machines and finishing equipment. • Studio IT: both PCs and Apple Macs • Fine art print resources: etching, are available throughout the School nor predictable. Our subject lithography, silk screen and water- of Art, located within the studio areas are not defined by our based screen printing workshop. and teaching spaces, with industry- tools, and job titles are often • Glass: hot shop for glassblowing and standard software for print and web casting, beadwork and cold design, video and image editing, misleading. It sounds like a working/machine area for processing, computer aided design, digital confusing picture, but to us, to grinding, polishing and sandblasting. modelling and visualisation. artists, designers, craftspeople, • Knit: dubied, domestic electronic and • Video editing suites: Final Cut Pro and whatever we are called, it’s a punch card knitting machines in a sound editing tools. range of gauges. • Network printing: A4, A3 and large hugely exciting arena where • Metal: jewellery making, traditional format print facilities. anything is possible and blacksmithing and forging, metal • Photography resources: everything is relevant.” fabrication, machining and welding. professional and daylight studios, dark rooms, high-end film scanning Professor David Crow, and film processing. Dean and Pro-Vice-Chancellor 18
mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate Creative opportunities Manchester School of Art’s portfolio of MA and MFA postgraduate taught courses includes a challenging and fulfilling range of creative opportunities in the fields of art, design and media. Built on the traditions and strengths of the School, yet focused on the future needs of the creative industries, our courses offer students flexible ways to study including one, two and four year options. In addition we also offer postgraduate opportunities in architecture and a range of research degrees.
As one of the largest providers of art Our courses equip our students with a Creative community and design courses in the UK our 3,500 range of specialist skills and the critical We have created dedicated spaces for the students study in a lively and creative thinking that will enable them to pursue postgraduate community within the heart community, taking inspiration from our careers and self-employment in their of the School, offering an exciting space specialist staff, the city and each other. chosen creative industry or continue to to be, both intellectually and practically. higher level academic study. The centre is located in the newly The School is renowned for its vibrant refurbished Chatham Tower with studios, and collegiate environment, all supported We cultivate highly motivated, design laboratories, seminar rooms by carefully thought out facilities and independent and creative thinkers and extensive workshop facilities that spaces designed to meet the specialist who can transfer their skills into the form the nucleus of this vibrant, cross- needs of our students. creative marketplace, as entrepreneurial disciplinary learning environment. innovators, freelance practitioners and Developing creative professionals innovative team players. Past graduates During our 175-year history, we have seen predominantly achieve graduate level many of our graduates go on to become positions or practise as sole traders, internationally renowned artists. They design studio artists, exhibiting artists, are a great source of pride to us and they museum curators, archivists, researchers, continue to develop the School of Art academics, community practitioners, philosophy of creativity throughout their specialist technicians and filmmakers at professional lives. national and international levels.
Graduates include Steve Coogan, Brian Cosgrove, Professor Malcolm Garrett, Mark Hall, Thomas Heatherwick, L.S. Lowry, Martin Parr, Peter Saville, Liam Spencer, Julie Walters and many more. 20 Course structure You may enrol on either the MA or MFA award. If you enrol on the MA you can choose to progress to the MFA during your first year of study.
The structure of study is universal to all Master of Arts (MA) Practice Two Unit our courses in the departments of art, (180 credits) (30 credits) media and design to encourage and reflect In this unit you will continue to develop our ethos of interdisciplinary study. The Practice One Unit your personal practice intentions that you networked nature of the postgraduate (30 credits) initiated in the first unit. There will be units on offer will provide you with a This will cover inductions to workshops opportunities to continue to build your unique opportunity to tailor a learning and facilities, orientation, and the skills and expertise in technologies and experience that aligns with your areas of development of your intention for practice tools related to your practice. You will also creative practice and professional interests. through possible projects and teamwork. continue to develop your theoretical and Your knowledge will be extended through research knowledge. Our courses in the Manchester School lectures, seminars and reviews of on- of Architecture are distinct from the going work with tutorials to discuss your In tandem with this you will also study: network and details of these courses can academic development. There will be be found on page 36. many opportunities for you to develop Professional Platforms Unit your practical skills through workshop (30 credits) Within your department, you will benefit inductions associated with your particular This unit will enable you to contextualise from a range of taught sessions including practice. You will be directing your own your practice by pursuing a collaboration lectures, seminars and group tutorials, studies for at least 50% of your time. in a live project, initiation of an exhibition along with tutorials and reviews providing or contributing to the organisation and formative feedback on the progress of In tandem with this you will also study: mounting of a symposium. This will your work. You will be asked to make enable you to develop your network of presentations of your work or subjects Options Unit contacts in your chosen profession, within of your research and contribute to the (30 credits) the city of Manchester and further afield. discussions in your seminar groups. Optional choices offer an important Full-time MA students will complete a opportunity to explore research themes total of 180 credits over one year whilst Final Practice/Thesis Unit in relation to your own interests and part-time students study over two years (60 Credits) practices. and have access to resources over two In the final stage of your studies, you will days a week. be self-directed, developing the strengths Our option units are exciting forums identified through the earlier stages, for theoretical debate, research and and bringing some realisation to your exploration of ideas. There is a range practice, whether through a portfolio, an of delivery modes from lectures and exhibition, display, business plan, design seminars through to workshops and live report or dissertation. At the end we aim project based learning. to celebrate your achievements through the display, exhibition and publication Options currently available are: digital of your work or you might use this unit futures, making our futures: ecological of your study as a platform from which arts and sustainable design, writing, to transfer onto the MFA or generate a research and funding proposals, museum proposal for MPhil/PhD. and the city, the city as museum, health and wellbeing, contested territories, images and archives, object and context and a negotiated unit.*
mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate Master of Fine Arts (MFA) (120 credits) The MFA extends your study after the achievement of 180 credits on the MA. Building on the professional platforms unit, it consists of a further two 60 credit units which demonstrate an independent professional competence within your chosen creative field.
These two units spread over one year for full-time students and two years for part-time. The course acknowledges that the required level of professional maturity develops from study over an extended period and therefore encourages your professional practice towards an external working environment.
Entry requirements for MA and MFA You will normally have an undergraduate UK honours degree (or international equivalent), a degree-equivalent postgraduate diploma, or a professional qualification. Alternatively, you may be admitted if you can demonstrate appropriate knowledge and skills at honours degree standard (APEL). In addition, you may also need to submit a digital portfolio.
International students please see mmu.ac.uk/international or page 52.
MA Full-time: 1 year Fee: UK/EU £6,930 Non-EU international £13,300 Part-time: 2 years Fee: UK/EU £1,155 per 30 credit unit MA = 180 credits Suitable for international students. See pages 52-53
MFA Full-time: 1 year Fee: UK/EU £1,155 per 30 credit unit following Non-EU international £2,220 per completion of MA 30 credit unit Part-time: 2 years Fee: UK/EU £1,155 per 30 credit unit following MFA = a further 120 credits following completion of MA completion of MA Suitable for international students. See pages 52-53
*These are correct at the time of going to press. It is possible that not all options will be offered in any year. Please check mmu.ac.uk for the latest information. 22
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Our postgraduate courses are listed by subject area. For more detailed information on each course visit our online prospectus at mmu.ac.uk
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Practice-based experiential learning is at the heart of the Art School ethos and our portfolio of taught postgraduate courses seek to provide an intellectually stimulating environment within which students can progress their learning through doing and making.
Fine Art Drawing Collaborative MA/MFA MA/MFA Practice MA/MFA MA/MFA Fine Art provides a stimulating The MA/MFA Drawing is studio practice- environment in which you will be guided to driven and enables you to specifically This course explores the potential of develop your creative aspirations, reach a examine and reflect upon the nature and role collaborative practice where you will critical maturity, and gain the self-confidence of drawing as a fundamental part of your experiment with approaches to collaboration, and skills that will enable you to work as a practice. The course provides a critically challenging traditional disciplinary successful artist. The course is studio supportive environment in which you boundaries, subjectivities, roles and practice-driven and relies on experimentation situate, develop and extend your use of hierarchies. You will develop a personal line and critical reflection supported by individual drawing through the on-going development of enquiry that will be applied through a mentoring, lectures, seminars and group of your work. An explorative and expansive collaborative project. Collaborations may critiques. It emphasises the articulation of approach is encouraged in order for you to involve communities, collectives, ideas, development of working methods and take risks within your own practice; this pedagogies, networks, environments, ethics, the realisation of independent work. Seminars experimentation and critical reflection draws public arts, cultural activism, anthropology, are structured to investigate a broad range of upon the research culture in drawing sustainability, politically or socially engaged themes relevant to the practising artist and practice. You will be supported in the practices and more. Students come from a provide a rich diet of inspiration. articulation of your ideas, development of range of disciplines and share a commitment working methods and the realisation of to the exchange of ideas in a creative forum, independent work through individual as a powerful way to learn. You will be For more information on this tutorials, lectures, subject specific seminars, supported in the articulation of your ideas, course visit mmu.ac.uk/13440 studio and gallery visits and group critiques. development of working methods and the realisation of personal projects through a regular taught seminar series, individual and For more information on this group tutorials, visits and guest speakers. course visit mmu.ac.uk/13530
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Tuesday Talks Hosted by The Whitworth Gallery, the Gordon, Swetlana Heger, Gerard Department of Art’s Tuesday Talks Hemsworth, Susan Hiller, James Hugonin, provide a perfect opportunity for students Andrew Hunt, Kurt Johannessen, Alan to engage with a range of international Johnston, Peter Kennard, Lisa Le Feuvre, artists. Speakers have included: Win van James Lingwood, Tom Lubbock, Chus den Abbeele, Can Altay, David Batchelor, Martinez, Bruce McLean, Lynda Morris, Patricia Bickers, Christine Borland, Martin Andrew Nairne, Rasmus Nielsen, Cornelia Boyce, Michael Bracewell, Roderick Parker, Simon Patterson, Andrea Buchanan, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Nathan Schlieker, Daniel Silver, Stephen Snoddy, Coley, Nigel Cooke, Nick Crowe, Ian Georgina Starr, Simon Starling, Daniel Davenport, Milena Dragicevic, Paul Sturgis, Luc Tuymans and Jonathan Eachus, Graham Fagen, Rob le Frennais, Watkins. Maria Fusco, Ori Gerscht, Douglas Contemporary Contemporary Design Cultures Curating Visual Culture MA/MFA MA/MFA MA/MFA This innovative course explores a diversity of MA/MFA Contemporary Curating explores This interdisciplinary subject explores the design worlds, from the ‘high’ design of the notion of exhibition practice in meanings and effects of visual images and award-winning architecture, furniture and contemporary culture, and considers ways of looking. Through its core elements, products to the often-overlooked objects and curatorial methods and strategies in the options and route specific seminars, the experiences of our everyday lives. Through context of the gallery and museum, as well course examines the ways images are used seminars, fieldwork, archive research, as in projects such as biennials, public art and perceived in a society that is becoming lectures and independent study you will be works and commissions. The course increasingly saturated with visual encouraged to build your own research considers ways in which different kinds of technologies, and it explores the ways that areas, using methods based on the art works and projects are mediated through images contribute to the formation of disciplines of design history, design studies the exhibition process. The shifting identities and social environments. You will and material culture. Developing your critical relationship between artist-institution- be encouraged to engage with the subject skills, you will develop an independent curator-critic/writer forms a central element using a theoretical, methodological and project that has expression in academic to the course. The course also explores the creative approach. The course provides writing and design analysis. Emphasis on potential of seeing curating as something opportunities for the production of a wide negotiated outcomes reflects the current that can be applied to different forms of variety of academic writing as well as dynamic interplay of design theory and knowledge: publications, symposia, events possibilities to develop critical thinking practice and allows you to tailor the course and interventions. through visual practice. The course to your individual interests. Taught in encourages a high degree of independent conjunction with Contemporary Visual research that will culminate in either a Culture, you will develop phenomenological methods and theories of interpretation, For more information on this dissertation or a project combining written alongside visual forms of analysis. course visit mmu.ac.uk/13442 and visual material.
This course will appeal to applicants from a Students have gone on to pursue careers in variety of backgrounds including art history, arts writing, curating and art and design fine art, sociology and visual anthropology, practice. The course also provides the scope those engaged in a range of careers such as for opportunities to teach in Further or lecturing, working in the cultural and Higher Education in the arts. heritage industries, and those looking to further develop their academic interests. For more information on this Students have gone on to pursue careers in course visit mmu.ac.uk/13531 arts writing, curating and art practice. The course also provides the scope for opportunities to teach in Further or Higher Education in the arts.
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These specialist routes of study collectively form the MA Design Network - a supportive studio-based community exploring individual interest through collaborative interdisciplinary projects and focused studio practice. We encourage collective practice and free discourse between different subject areas. Our students use a broad range of methods and techniques, blending academic investigation and professional engagement with the world. They are creative, curious, open-minded, interested in wider themes of practice and looking to meet the significant challenges of working at postgraduate level.
Illustration Graphic Design MA/MFA and Art Direction MA/MFA Illustrators work within many disciplines: they are able to visualise, elucidate and extend the meaning of a given field of This course is concerned with the advanced knowledge or information, and communicate exploration and application of principles of ideas and narratives to specific audiences. graphic design within the contexts of The contemporary practice of illustration is research and professional development. multi-disciplinary, incorporating drawing, Engagement with digital and making printmaking, traditional and digital media, technologies is central to discovering and model-making, performance and harnessing new thinking in design. This collaborative, interactive practices. course is of particular relevance to those interested in effective visual communication and developing innovative concepts and approaches in publication design, For more information on this illustration, motion graphics, corporate course visit mmu.ac.uk/13431 identity, photography, design for digital media and graphic design for advertising.
For more information on this Animation course visit mmu.ac.uk/13433 MA/MFA
This innovative course focuses on the development of a significant experimental animation production that synthesises research undertaken in drawing, live-action, drawing on film, under camera manipulation, stop-frame animation, pixilation and sound as art. A strong independent research base will underpin individual practice.
Challenging the parameters of film and video production, and identifying new approaches to the notion of art films will be encouraged as will incorporating experimentation in production and post-production stages.
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mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate Textile Practice Textiles for Fashion MA/MFA MA/MFA
Textile Practice is a place to explore ideas This course will provide you with the through making textiles of any kind. opportunity for practice-based postgraduate ‘Textiles’ is interpreted in its broadest sense, study in the creation of innovative textile encompassing art, design and craft, as well designs and concepts for fashion end use. as practice that incorporates more than one Outcomes could be related to design, field. Individual, collaborative and community styling, forecasting and prediction, fashion group work is encouraged. Your work may be promotion and consultancy, visual process-driven, or concept-driven. Outcomes merchandising, art direction, publishing or range from installation and site-specific work, pursuing further postgraduate study. You will to community work and design collections. be encouraged to develop design content that allows you to explore alternative ways You will engage in critical debate and of engaging with fashion and textile reflection as a means by which the field of audiences. The course will emphasise the textiles practice is acknowledged and importance of being digitally articulate; you contested. are welcome to combine this with traditional media and design processes.
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Embroidery MA/MFA
The Embroidery course will provide you with an opportunity to specialise in stitch, in the broadest sense of the word. Embroidery has vast potential as a creative medium and can be used within art, craft and design outcomes. You will be expected to have an understanding of the context for your work, and undertake appropriate visual research. Both traditional and digital technological processes are available in specialist workshops, including Cornely, Irish, domestic, and single head computerised machines.
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Manchester School of Art offers four fashion pathways as part of its MA Design Network: Womenswear, Menswear, Knitwear and Fashion Graphics
Fashion: Fashion: Fashion: Fashion Graphics Knitwear Womenswear MA/MFA MA/MFA MA/MFA
Fashion Graphics provides the opportunity Fashion: Knitwear develops pioneering This course develops designers who are to create innovative visual communication concepts with the innovative application of interested in responding to contemporary and imagery for fashion end use. Outcomes skill. It emphasises three-dimensional conditions through research, practice and could be related to print and pattern thinking, technology, materiality and critical engagement. Traditional approaches design, promotion, marketing, branding, fabrication order to develop exciting and combined with digital technologies provide visual merchandising, art direction, innovative contributions to fashion and opportunities to develop innovative solutions illustration, publishing. design more broadly. which complement and challenge the notion of a ‘collection’.
For more information on this For more information on this course visit mmu.ac.uk/13439 course visit mmu.ac.uk/13438 For more information on this course visit mmu.ac.uk/13436
Fashion: Menswear MA/MFA
This course develops imaginative design thinking. It has a focus on the cultural nuances and perspectives associated with design, fabrication and dissemination, with a focus on the development of innovative and culturally relevant menswear.
For more information on this course visit mmu.ac.uk/13437 Design: Glass MA/MFA
This course is concerned with the development of advanced craft and design practice. It combines the handmade and digital approaches, which highlights and encourages new methods of practice presently used within glass. We seek to maintain and develop time-honoured glass processes in kiln work and glassblowing – skills that take many years to accomplish. We equally encourage the pursuit of creative opportunities that new digital technologies provide. There is access to a range of glass facilities and to a broad range of other 3D design and craft cultures, including those related to the design and/or making of domestic products, furniture, ceramics and jewellery.
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Design: Ceramics MA/MFA
The course provides a complex and diverse territory for MA study. It is grounded in ceramics practice – the rich history of people and objects, social and political narrative – yet encourages students to question the roles of practice in today’s society. Students may explore both hands-on and digital innovation in the development of design, making and drawing practices. We encourage the pursuit of expertise and value through careful practical insights and personal intuition. There is access to an extensive range of ceramics workshops, other material and print workshops as well as CAD/CAM workshops. We have an interdisciplinary approach to designing and making, collaboration with peers and engagement with external partners is encouraged.
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mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate Design: Jewellery Design: Furniture Design: LAB MA/MFA MA/MFA MA/MFA
This course asks you to question not only MA Design: Furniture is concerned with This course is studio-centred, integrating your own practice, but also the essence of relationships between people, contexts and both design and craft practice. Since 2008, what we understand as jewellery itself. environments and the designed the Design LAB has delivered a series of Jewellery’s function is diverse and complex, consequences. Furniture design activity in craft and design projects where social from personal adornment to political this context should be considered as a responsibility, integrity and professional statement, and the materials and processes prospective and not prescriptive pursuit, so practice are placed at the heart of MA study. that reflect this are as equally diverse. The the question ‘What can contemporary We encourage research defined by hands-on wearable object, perhaps more than any furniture practice be?’ is particularly project work with community, in close other has manifold relationships with people, relevant. The flexible nature of the partnership with local councils, organisations its rich history is loaded with social programme not only allows the development and communities beyond Manchester School significance and visual language. This route of a practice within a discrete furniture- of Art, highlighting how this network calls students to question the ways in which related area but also, and importantly, supports and informs our active research and jewellery communicates, and the role the encourages the cross fertilisation of ideas, practice. We advocate the importance of wearable plays in contemporary society. preoccupations and practices. developing design approaches that take into Exploration of both hands-on and digital consideration the many facets of human innovation is encouraged in the development interaction with the urban environment. of design, making and communication For more information on this There is access to an extensive range of practices. There is access to an extensive course visit mmu.ac.uk/13527 design studios and workshops and to a range of material and CAD/CAM workshop broad range of design and craft cultures. facilities and opportunities to experience a diverse range of creative cultures, including related design and craft disciplines such as For more information on this graphic and fashion design. course visit mmu.ac.uk/13525
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mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate Innovation in Design, Engineering and Business
Product Design Interior Design MA/MSc MA/MFA
This course is an innovative collaboration This course promotes the investigation and between Manchester School of Art, the interpretation of interior space, inside and University’s Faculty of Science and outside of the traditional architectural Engineering, and Business School. It brings envelope, whilst considering human together students from creative and occupation as the catalyst. This may manufacturing backgrounds to study manifest in a variety of outcomes and will together on projects that challenge personal allow you to work within your chosen approaches to product design, engage with speciality such as building re-use, exhibition the technical constraints of manufacturing or shop design, branding, environmental and explore the creative use of materials and graphics, set design, temporary installations processes. You will develop advanced skills or event design, furniture or artefact design. in contemporary digital design and The specialist workshops provide you with manufacturing technologies, embracing the opportunities to explore materiality, creative opportunities they offer product fabrication and realisation of your ideas, designers. The business unit develops through technical rigour at a variety of scales project planning and management skills, whilst studio teaching is underpinned by raises understanding of markets and engagement with industry. marketing opportunities and highlights the financial factors that impact on product development within commercial For more information on this manufacturing environments. course visit mmu.ac.uk/13434
Entry requirements At least a second class UK honours degree in an engineering, business or art and design related discipline is usually required. EU/international equivalent qualifications, professional qualifications, or unclassified degrees in engineering or product design with relevant professional experience are also accepted. Other equivalent qualifications will be considered on merit. International students please see mmu.ac.uk/international or page 52.
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As a media department based inside a School of Art we offer postgraduate courses which connect photography, film and new media with cutting-edge critical theory and excellent digital facilities. All our courses reach out to the professional word, emphasising real world projects with our network of partners, and maintain at the same time the exciting art school sense of exploration.
Media Culture Filmmaking Photography MA/MFA MA/MFA MA/MFA
This MA programme is a theoretical Filmmaking provides a supportive, creative In this photography course you will be pathway which takes technical media as its environment for you to explore your ideas encouraged to test and push the boundaries object of study. Complementing the practice and stories through film practice. The rich, of the photographic medium. You will MA programmes within the Media immersive, and inspiring environment of the explore approaches to visual narrative, department of the Manchester School of Art, Manchester School of Art enables you to including the photographic and cinematic, its focus is on the theories and histories of undertake far-reaching, challenging, and and evaluate the relationship between screen, lens-based and digital media, the experimental approaches. The course focuses photography and texts/sound/space. You will varied forms of creative practice that they practical, critical and creative development primarily use digital and analogue support, and their ubiquity in contemporary around filmmaking through further photographic technologies, but may also culture and society. The programme provides investigation of individual visual language develop your practical skills through media a critical and creative environment where and film style. Although the progression of such as moving image and bookbinding. media students, researchers, creative ideas will be central to the activity, there will Particular themes will explore photography in practitioners and professionals can conduct also be a strong emphasis on film craft and relation to context: portfolio, book art, intensive, self-directed academic research the professionalisation of your work. gallery, screen and installed space. You will with expert supervision. Manchester School of Art has a well- develop your own philosophy to photography established culture in filmmaking, ensuring a and will be expected to consider and The MA is structured to support you in lively environment and experience, together evaluate your work in relation to the current developing, consolidating and executing a with a breadth of expertise and outstanding photographic discourse on the shifting focused and substantial independent resources to draw upon. genres and boundaries caused by advancing research project; this may take the form of a technologies. dissertation, or a project combining academic writing with creative media For more information on this practice. For the MFA award, this work will course visit mmu.ac.uk/13444 For more information on this be extended and you will provide evidence course visit mmu.ac.uk/13445 of an engagement with the appropriate professional sphere. Possible directions for these projects include:
• Research and publishing projects at academic level; • Creative applications of the academic canon; • Curation, programming, interpretation and marketing in the fields of screen, lens-based and digital media arts.
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36 Manchester School of Architecture
Manchester School of Architecture is an innovative collaboration between Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester. The School draws on extensive teaching and research expertise within both institutions and our students enjoy the use of the facilities at both universities.
The School has a strong connection with the professional world, whether this be through its teaching staff, events or projects, which in turn provides numerous interesting opportunities for its students.
Entry requirements Master of Architecture You will normally have at least an upper second class undergraduate UK honours degree (or international equivalent) in architecture plus MArch ARB/RIBA Part 1. Admission will normally be dependent on a successful application and interview. Full-time | 2 years Fee* | UK/EU £9,000 Non-EU international see A portfolio of work in PDF format should be submitted either on a mmu.ac.uk/13495 CD, via email or file transfer service along with your application form. It should include a table of contents with information regarding the Part-time | 4 years Fee* | £2,250 per 30 credit unit duration of project and in which academic year/level it was completed (preceded by a year MArch = 120 credits and a selection of projects from your time in practice. We also require in practice) a concise letter of intent and two references, one of which must be Suitable for international students. See pages 52-53. from a former tutor and the other from your current employer.
International students please see mmu.ac.uk/international or This course is for students who have completed the BA (Hons) page 52. Architecture course and typically a year in practice. The course comprises studio (with integrated technology), dissertation and professional studies. The studio course is delivered through research- driven clusters called ateliers that align strong areas of research activity and mutual interests via trios of staff. This enables students to develop ideological positions that are critically underpinned This course satisfies the ARB/RIBA Criteria for Approval through seminars, workshops and symposiums to enhance their and thus provides exemption from Part 2. knowledge and skills. The first year of their studies enables each student to locate themselves within a broad range of perspectives in relation to contemporary architecture and urbanism. The second year For more detailed information on this course visit builds upon this knowledge and developing skillset to orientate each mmu.ac.uk/13495 student towards a suitable role within or beyond the parameters of the profession. The MArch programme maintains a diverse range of different ateliers, which enables the Manchester School of *Existing students completing the BA (Hons) Architecture who Architecture to provide a series of distinct and significant areas of progress to Master of Architecture will remain on their existing fee focus and expertise, with respect to the future of architecture and structure (with restrictions). urbanism within a wider cultural context.
At the beginning of each academic year you will make a preference from a choice of the School’s ateliers. You would normally expect to spend a year studying with a particular atelier.
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Full-time | 1 year Fee | UK/EU £6,930 (48 weeks) Non-EU international £13,300 Part-time | 2 years Fee | £385 per 10 credit unit (96 weeks) MA = 180 credits Suitable for international students. See pages 52-53.
This taught postgraduate course conducts research into how global cultural and economic forces influence contemporary cities. The design, functioning and future of urban situations is explored in written, drawn and modelled work that builds on the legacy of Landscape Architecture twentieth century urban theory and is directed towards the development of sustainable cities. MA Through this course you will begin to engage directly with a chosen Full-time | 1 year Fee | UK/EU £6,930 research subject area, gather data and formulate an original approach (48 weeks) Non-EU international £13,300 in your practice. You will synthesise your project culminating in the production of a leading-edge proposition until you present and Part-time | 2 years Fee | £385 per 10 credit unit contextualise your thesis. This internationally based course actively (96 weeks) MA = 180 credits disseminates students’ thesis work through conferences, exhibitions, Suitable for international students. See pages 52-53. competitions and publication.
This course can be approved as prior learning for the MSA RIBA Part This course is accredited by the Landscape Institute as a route to 2 accredited MArch in certain circumstances. The course is jointly becoming a Chartered Landscape Architect in the UK, an accredited with the University of Manchester. internationally recognised and respected title. Graduates of the course have gone on to work across the UK and the rest of the world, Entry requirements and include some of the top names working in the profession today. You will normally have at least an upper second class undergraduate UK honours degree (or international equivalent) in a related field. The course has a strongly theoretical orientation, encouraging Alternatively, you may be admitted if you have proven experience in students to explore contemporary discourse and practice in the a relevant field. Students are required to provide a portfolio (digital or subject and to investigate the perspective of landscape as a physical, hard copy) as part of the application process. International students economic and cultural construct. Lectures, seminars and visits please see mmu.ac.uk/international or page 52. extend knowledge and skills, whilst the design studio acts as a medium to develop and test your ideas at a range of geographical and temporal scales. The dissertation forms the conclusion to the process and places your personal practice within the subject For more detailed information on this course visit paradigm. Staff research interests and activity will support your work mmu.ac.uk/13492 and extend the potential range of project locations and thematic foundations. An integrated work placement of three days a week in a local practice, supplemented by a lecture and seminar series, provides a strong understanding of the professional context and preparation for employment.
Entry requirements You will normally have at least a second class undergraduate UK honours degree (or international equivalent) in Landscape Architecture. You may be admitted if you have a cognate first degree and proven experience in a relevant field. However, candidates with a previous degree in a closely related area or with an overseas landscape architecture qualification may be required to undertake a one-year conversion course in order to continue onto the MA. Applicants may be required to provide a digital portfolio as part of the application process or to attend an interview. This course is accredited by the Landscape Institute. International students please see mmu.ac.uk/international or page 52.
For more detailed information on this course visit mmu.ac.uk/13497 38 Research at Manchester School of Art
MIRIAD continues the proud 175-year tradition in art and design education established by the original Manchester School of Art, which first awarded research degrees in 1968. Today, MIRIAD is the home for the School of Art’s interdisciplinary research degree programme in the practices, professions, histories and theories of art, design and architecture.
Research degrees Research focused staff Subject-based research We offer the research study options of Staff within the School are practicing Postgraduate student and staff research MA by Research, MPhil and PhD. professionals and researchers in their projects are pursued through a range of fields, either as creative artists and subject-based research groups: You will study in a well-established designers, or through theoretical research environment that supports approaches to their subject. We have • Architecture innovative research. We will help you just been rated as fifth in the UK for our • Art to enhance your current knowledge and research base, with two thirds of our • Art and Design Pedagogy skills and we offer multi-disciplinary research internationally excellent. supervision across the broad areas of art • Arts and Health and design. Their work clearly demonstrates how • Asian Cultures creative research can both be exciting • Craft As a postgraduate researcher you will be and engage with the major cultural and • Design supported by: societal issues of the day. Staff regularly exhibit in major galleries worldwide, • Future Living • A supervisory team of normally three engaging with communities to enrich • Future Technologies academic members of staff their possibilities, having influence • Media over national policy, and exploring new • If appropriate, multi-disciplinary • Visual Culture supervision ways of expression through digital technologies. • Training in practice as research and These are often of strategic relevance writing workshops Particular strengths are in Arts and and are related to sustainability, ageing, • Skills development opportunities with Health, Asian Cultures (we host the Asia lifelong health, well-being, conflict, global outside organisations Triennial arts festival), digital arts (the uncertainty, entrepreneurship, creative • Online support workshops 3D printing of graphene for example) and enterprise, sustainability and adaptation contemporary ceramics and textile arts to climate change. practice, but our researchers span the full reach of art, design, architecture and MIRIAD collaborates with the cultural media research. industries and centres of art education, creative arts organisations and galleries on local, national and global levels. We have one of the largest communities of researchers and postgraduate students in the practices, theories and professions of art and design in the UK.
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Studying at MIRIAD is
“really helping me develop my career and providing me with new contacts and “ opportunities within the creative arena.
Research profile: Ana Rosa Hopkins Fine Art Artist/Sculptor PhD by Practice Student Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design (MIRIAD)
I have been studying at Manchester Metropolitan University for a number of years, having completed both an undergraduate degree and Master’s degree in Fine Art.
I decided to undertake my PhD within MIRIAD as it is a leading research institution and a thriving creative environment to work in. One of the best things of MIRIAD is the excellent access to the workshops and other facilities and the opportunity to have my own workshop space when I need it. My peers and supervisors are all very supportive and we have an excellent network for learning. Their support is important, they will help you to develop your skills and creativity.
I have recently won the Neo:artprize for my work on an installation created from broken glass. My work was selected from that of over 400 entrants and so I’m very proud to have been selected as the winner. 40
Partnership We host PARC North West, a regional We advise our postgraduate research consortium for research training and skills candidates to concentrate on a single development in the creative arts and research project, develop a clear research industries and we are a member of the question or set of problems, demonstrate AHRC Northwest Consortium Doctoral knowledge of the context of the proposal Training Partnership, which includes in terms of current debates, theories and the University’s Cheshire campus and practices in the field, and put forward the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, a methodology capable of addressing Keele, Manchester and Salford, and the the research question. In addition, it is Royal Northern College of Music. helpful to include a schedule and any resources needed to enable the project to Research facilities be completed. We offer exceptional facilities which you will share with Research Fellows and International students Professors from the School of Art. You If English is not your first language, will find office, social, meeting and active or if you do not hold a UK Master’s or learning spaces for postgraduate research international equivalent level qualification students, computer facilities, and a 3D examined in English, you will need print studio. to achieve IELTS 6.5 or above with no element below 6.0. Our British Council The School of Art offers an impressive accredited English Language Centre can array of state-of-the-art facilities help you to make rapid progress in the including galleries, flexible studio spaces Academic English you need through our and even a roof garden. Creating an intensive courses (see page 52 for further environment where you are free to realise details). your most ambitious artistic visions is central to our philosophy. Contact us Before you make a formal application Information and advice please feel free to submit a draft research for applicants proposal; we will be happy to provide you Our website has all the information with feedback. Alternatively, you may you need to help you make your wish to discuss your proposal in person. application as well as guidance on how to write your research proposal. Your Contact: Professor Jim Aulich proposal should be 5-600 words long and email: [email protected] should follow the guidelines set out in the application form.
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I would definitely “recommend this course. “ You can really tailor the way you want to learn.
Research profile: Sarbjit Mistry Kaur MA Practice-led Research
I decided to study here after attending the PARC North West event and the tutors and students from Manchester School of Art gave very inspiring talks.
I like the fact that the course is practice-led. I’m an artist so I enjoy mixing theory with practice. For me, the best thing here is the workshop space; the University has such amazing facilities and has everything that I need.
The tutors are great. They are all very knowledgeable and supportive – there is always someone to help. Different tutors have different approaches, so there is a stimulating mix of techniques. 42 Accommodation Free and student living WiFi Feeling safe and comfortable in your new home is important when coming to university Rent includes and we make the process of choosing your all bills and accommodation simple and straightforward. insurance
Convenient either in university or private halls, Families and couples You’ll find an excellent choice of student provided you are studying for the full accommodation accommodation in our eight university- academic year, hold a firm offer and If you will be living with your partner or owned and leased halls or managed submit your application by 15th August. family we recommend you look at private partnership accommodation. The accommodation as the University only majority of our student accommodation Residential life offers single study bedrooms which are is conveniently located on campus or The Residential Life team provide not suitable for students accompanied by nearby. Including halls of residence, support for students living in all their partners or families. shared flats and townhouses, all of Manchester Met leased and owned our accommodation is self-catered and halls across Manchester and Cheshire. More information is available at offers a range of comforts and services They supervise and support our senior mmu.ac.uk/accommodation/ including 24-hour security, en-suite or students living alongside undergraduates postgraduate shared bathrooms and internet access. fulfilling the role of Residential Advisers. All rooms come with free WiFi internet The Residential Advisers are there to access as standard and prices include promote and support a student led bills and insurance. approach to community and welfare, supported by the best in sector security, Wherever you decide to live, the welfare and facilities management. only place you need to visit is our accommodation website at Full-time postgraduate students can mmu.ac.uk/accommodation apply to become a Residential Adviser, This is the University’s source of living in the University’s Halls of student accommodation and provides Residence. You will receive training everything you need from information to provide peer-to-peer support and on halls of residence and flats or engagement opportunities to other houses in the private sector to student residents, and in return can general advice on housing. benefit from a 50% rent reduction and up to 10 hours paid work each week. This 24-hour All EU and overseas students in the is an excellent opportunity to support first year of study will be able to secure students, and gain invaluable skills that security accommodation in halls of residence, will make you stand out to employers. 50% off rent for Residential Advisers
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Supporting our postgraduate students Support is provided by a group of dedicated staff who can help and advise on a range of matters, and who can also provide specialised support for international students.
Student Hub Specialist support for disabled Students’ Union The Student Hub is your first port of call students and those with specific As a student at Manchester Metropolitan for face-to-face information, advice and learning difficulties University you automatically become a guidance on a wide range of course- The Disability Service works closely with member of The Union, which represents related matters, and also for information academic departments and other central the interests of our 37,000 students. about university services and facilities. services to support disabled students. The Union makes sure your voice is Opening hours are being progressively Advisers can offer you confidential heard across the University, through extended into evenings and weekends, advice, information and support in your elected Student Officers and Course so that the Student Hubs are available relation to an ongoing health condition, Reps. Friendly, experienced, trained staff when you need them. disability or dyslexia. You can contact us offer independent specialist support in before starting the course, to speed up our Advice Centre. A supportive learning the process of getting support in place environment for when you start to study with us. Support for international We place a strong emphasis on the mmu.ac.uk/learnerdevelopment students personal and pastoral support of Our Immigration and Welfare team individual students. There are dedicated Counselling, health and provides confidential advice and student support officers on campus to well-being guidance to help make your time in provide advice, guidance and study skills The Counselling Service offers you the the UK a success, regularly hosting support through individual sessions and opportunity to talk to a professionally workshops to help with visa renewals group workshops on topics including trained counsellor, in confidence, about as well as organising a Welcome revision techniques, presentation skills, any personal problems you may have. Programme for when you arrive in essay writing and time management. Both individual and group counselling the UK. This will provide you with You will also have round-the-clock access is available free to all students who information about enrolment at to study skills resources on Moodle, your are registered with the University. the University, help with opening online virtual learning environment. The Counselling Service also runs bank accounts as well as a range workshops and courses on themes such of activities to help you meet other as relaxation, stress management and international students. confidence-building.
Welcome programme for Dedicated international student students support officers
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The welcome orientation for
“international students in September is a great way to meet other international students and get to “ know the University a little better before lectures start.
The library is open 24-7 during term-time and is well-equipped “ “ with a huge range of electronic resources, databases, books, newspapers, CDs and DVDs.
The careers and employability team “were so helpful and supported me “ with developing my CV, interview skills and with job hunting. 46
Postgraduate finance We recognise that financial considerations may be an important factor when choosing to study for a postgraduate qualification.
Postgraduate taught courses Paying your tuition fees Information on tuition fees* for taught If you are funding your own study you courses for UK/EU and international may choose to pay your tuition fees in students is given online in the individual full at enrolment or you may opt to join course entry on our e-prospectus. Any one of the University’s agreed instalment part-time fees stated are for the first year schemes, available during online and, owing to the flexibility of part-time enrolment, which allows you to pay courses, denote the maximum fee for your tuition fees over three instalments Year 1. Actual fees may vary depending per year. If your fees are £5,000 and on the units selected and the time taken over you will be required to make an to complete the course. For further initial payment before you can join an information on fees please visit instalment scheme. Further details mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/fees are available via finance.mmu.ac.uk/ students and during online enrolment. Research degrees There are opportunities to become Most part-time students pay tuition a postgraduate research student on fees according to how many units they a specific project that is funded by choose to study in each year; fees are a research grant. Alternatively, you listed per unit and depend upon the may wish to enrol as a self-funded number of credits each unit represents. postgraduate research student. UK/EU UK/EU students with course fees of tuition fees are based on the levels set £5,000 and above are required to make by Research Councils UK; for 2015/16 an initial payment (further details and UK/EU tuition fees were £4,052 (full- amounts are displayed during online time) and £2,026 (part-time). enrolment). All international students International fees for 2015/2016 ranged who pay their own tuition fees must pay from £11,500 to £12,500 (please note a deposit each year of between £3,000 additional bench fees for PhD study may and £5,000 prior to arrival in the UK. be charged, depending on the subject). The amount of your tuition fee deposit will be confirmed in your offer letter from the University.
For more information on payment methods, including employer or sponsor funded payment, or if you have a career development loan visit finance.mmu.ac.uk/students
*The fees quoted are correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change and will be confirmed at the mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate time of enrolment. Sources of funding Postgraduate research At the time of going to press the studentships Manchester Metropolitan government are planning to offer home University Studentships are normally University Scholarships for postgraduate taught students funding offered on an annual basis for home and taught courses towards their tuition fees. Please check EU students wishing to study for PhD, We are pleased to offer a number our website for further information at MPhil and Master’s by Research. They of postgraduate scholarships in a mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/fees are usually held for up to three years and range of subject areas – to find provide tuition fees and a subsistence out more visit mmu.ac.uk/study/ Many postgraduates are currently bursary of around £14,000 per annum. postgraduate/scholarships self-financing, finding the money for For information on fees, scholarships both course fees and living costs and studentships visit themselves. However, financial support mmu.ac.uk/research/studentships may be available both for postgraduate taught courses (normally for one year) Industrial CASE awards for mutually Alumni and for postgraduate research study beneficial research collaborations Loyalty Discount (normally up to three years) through a between academic and industrial We offer an Alumni Loyalty range of studentships and sponsorships. partners may also become available. Discount scheme for students who Information on postgraduate funding is Visit mmu.ac.uk/research have successfully completed an available from many different sources undergraduate degree (excluding and it is worthwhile undertaking your Target Postgrad bursaries HND or Foundation degree), own subject-specific search. You may Postgrad Solutions now offer 13 bursaries PGCE or GDL at Manchester find it useful to consider: across a number of subject areas. For more Metropolitan University, and who information see postgrad.com meet the requirements for entry to a l Industrial organisations or your postgraduate taught programme. You employer Further information on funding can may be eligible for 20% off the tuition also be found at targetpostgrad.com/ l Professional and Career fees† for full-time and part-time funding Development Loans (gov.uk/ postgraduate taught courses. for more career-development-loans International students information) Visit: mmu.ac.uk/loyaltyaward Information on funding and financial Email: [email protected] l Charitable Trusts support for international students is l Research Grants available at mmu.ac.uk/international † Please note that the Alumni Loyalty Award cannot be given alongside other fee l Research Degree Studentships bursaries or discounts from Manchester Metropolitan University. Part-time work Many postgraduate students choose to study part-time to allow them to continue working. Students can find work with the University’s on- campus work experience scheme, Jobs4Students, which offers casual, paid employment that is flexible around your course commitments.
Sources of UK funding (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) Awards currently available for full-time postgraduate students usually cover university fees and a maintenance grant. For further information visit gov.uk/funding-for-postgraduate-study 48 Entry requirements An overview of the minimum entry requirements for your chosen postgraduate programme of study.
In individual areas of study, you may Master’s degree by Research PhD (by Published Work) be required to achieve grades higher (MA and MSc) and MPhil The University offers two routes for than the minimum requirements. It is You should have a first or second PhD by Published Work. These routes important to read the individual course class UK honours degree (usually a provide an alternative for candidates entry for the course you wish to apply 2:1 classification) or an international who have acquired substantial for, which gives details of the typical equivalent. Applicants will be considered experience in a working research entry requirements for that course. on their merits. Ability and background environment, as a result of which In particular, courses which lead to an knowledge in relation to the proposed a number of publications have been award from a professional body may research, together with professional produced. Only published work that is have specific entry requirements that are experience, publications, written available and accessible in the public set by that professional body. Satisfying reports or other appropriate evidence domain will be eligible for consideration. the typical entry requirements may not, of accomplishment will be taken into however, guarantee the offer of a place. consideration. Opportunities exist to International students Applications are considered on their own transfer from Master’s by Research to Detailed information for international merit and in competition with others, MPhil, and all students registered for students about entry requirements, the with account being taken of examination MPhil have the opportunity to transfer level of proficiency English that you will results already achieved, predicted to PhD after completion of about 9 to need, and making your application is grades in forthcoming examinations, 15 months of full-time study (or 15 to 21 provided on pages 52-53. research project proposals, personal months part-time), providing progress on statements and academic references. the work demonstrates that development If you need to check your eligibility, In some cases, work experience or to this level can be achieved. visit our website at success in other fields may be accepted mmu.ac.uk/ and check your specific as an equivalent to formal qualifications. international PhD country page for more detailed entry Advanced standing (APEL) To apply for a PhD direct, you requirements and which international should have a UK Master’s degree (or qualifications we accept. We welcome applications to our equivalent from an overseas institution) postgraduate courses from mature in a discipline which is appropriate to We also consider work experience and students who have professional the proposed research, and includes other factors so do include everything qualifications. We may be able to credit sufficient training in research methods you think is relevant in your application. some of your existing qualifications and and the execution of a research project. give you exemption from some of the If you do not meet these criteria but have taught units for your MSc, which means had appropriate research or professional that you would not have to study all the experience at postgraduate level which units for your course. has resulted in published work, written reports or other appropriate evidence Taught Master’s programmes of accomplishment, this will be taken MA/MFA into consideration. If you do not hold a You should have a UK honours degree, Master’s degree or it is not in a relevant or international equivalent, or a subject area, you may apply for the postgraduate diploma or a professional MPhil/PhD programme. You can then qualification recognised as being start on an MPhil and after 12-18 months equivalent to an honours degree. of study you may apply to transfer your Other qualifications or work experience registration to the PhD. may be acceptable if they demonstrate appropriate knowledge and skills at honours degree standard.
mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate Making an application When you have chosen your course of postgraduate study or research the application process is straightforward.
How to apply Applying for a research degree International students Applications for our postgraduate taught You can apply for admission to Full information about the application and research degrees should be made a postgraduate research degree process for international students is directly to the University and may either by responding to a specific provided on pages 52-53. be submitted up to September 2016, advertisement for a studentship in the although places on some courses may fill local or national press or by applying up before this date. speculatively to the University. Term dates 2016/17 Autumn term Applying for a taught course To apply for a Professional Doctorate, 19 September – 16 December 2016 Applications for full-time and part-time PhD, MPhil, MRes or Master’s by Spring term postgraduate taught courses should Research you will need to complete 9 January – 31 March 2017 be made on the Manchester Metropolitan the Application Form to Study for University standard application a Postgraduate Research Degree Summer term form, available at available to download from 24 April – 23 June 2017 mmu.ac.uk/pgapply mmu.ac.uk/researchapply You should also contact the Research Degrees Coordinator for your chosen Disclaimer After completing the application form, This prospectus is correct at the time of going to print. please send it either: subject area to arrange a preliminary However, please check the University’s website before discussion about your proposed making an application to the University as some details may by email to: [email protected] have been updated. The provision of educational services by post to: research topic. by The Manchester Metropolitan University is subject to terms and conditions of enrolment and contract which can be found at mmu.ac.uk/academic/casqe/regulations/docs/ Direct Admissions Team If your application is successful you policies_regulations.pdf The University will do all that it will be required to have an interview. reasonably can to provide educational services as described Manchester Metropolitan University in the prospectus, on the website, or in other documents Business School and Student Hub When the University is satisfied that issued by it, to appropriately enrolled students. Sometimes Lower Chatham Street your proposed project is generally sound, circumstances beyond the control of the University mean that it cannot provide such educational services. Examples of such Manchester your references have been received and circumstances include: industrial action by University staff or M15 6BH that the appropriate supervision and third parties; the unanticipated departure of key members of University staff; power failure; acts of terrorism; damage to resources are available, you will be sent buildings or equipment; the acts of any governmental or local The University will inform you of the a letter offering you a place. authority; or where the numbers recruited to a course are so low that it is not possible to deliver an appropriate quality of outcome of your application. Some offers education for students enrolled on it. In these circumstances, may be conditional upon you satisfying Enrolment for a research degree the University will take all reasonable steps to minimise normally takes place at the start of each disruption to those services and to affected students, by, the specified entry requirements. for example, offering affected students the chance to move academic term, ie September, January to another course or institution or by delivering a modified and April, although some programmes version of the same course. However, to the full extent that is possible under the general law the University excludes may only have one enrolment period per liability for any loss and/or damage suffered by any applicant academic session. or student as a result of those circumstances. The University will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver the course in accordance with the description applied to it in the Following enrolment, in order to register University’s prospectus for the academic year in which you begin the course. However, the University will be entitled for the degree you will be required to to make reasonable changes to the course (including to the produce a research proposal with the content and syllabus of the course where developments in the subject area make that necessary, or to the location of help of your proposed supervisory team, the course or the method of delivery or assessment of the and submit it to your Faculty Research course) where that will enable the University to deliver a better quality of educational experience to students enrolled Degrees Committee for approval within on the course. In making any such changes, the University three months (full-time) or six months will aim to keep the changes to the minimum necessary to achieve the required quality of experience and will notify and (part-time) of enrolment. consult with affected students in advance about any changes that are required. If the University changes your course and you are not satisfied with the changes, you will be offered the opportunity to withdraw from the programme and, if required, reasonable support to transfer to another provider. The University is committed to the achievement of equal opportunities. This is central to our mission as a University and as a provider of higher education. This commitment is set out in full in our Equal Opportunities Policy and Action Plan. 50 A warm welcome to our international students Greater Manchester is home to more international students than any other region outside London and we welcome over 3,000 students from 120 countries to the University every year.
Our campuses are situated in the services team offers international at the University. MMU International dynamic, cosmopolitan city of Manchester students career advice, counselling, also provides international students and in the more relaxed area of nearby chaplaincy, and learning support. with advice on a wide range of matters Cheshire. Both locations offer amazing from social events and immigration to study, leisure, sport, social and Career support day-to-day living in the UK. There is entertainment opportunities, as well as At Manchester Metropolitan a comprehensive three-day welcome excellent student accommodation. University, we work hard to improve programme to help you settle into our students’ employability. The university life. Manchester’s cosmopolitan character Careers and Employability Service creates a truly dynamic atmosphere provides valuable help and advice for The programme provides information that has earned the city the unofficial international students, providing a about enrolment at the University title of the most popular student city Careers Information Centre, with books and there are activities to help you in the UK. Manchester has its roots and online resources offering details of meet other international students. firmly in innovation and business many graduate vacancies, opportunities The International team also runs the and as a celebrated hub of creativity to meet employers on campus and Airport Welcome Service which helps and culture, the city offers fantastic workshops to learn how to write effective get you to your accommodation. student experiences. While exploring CVs and practice successful interview its unique history, arts venues and techniques. We also offer courses for The International Society world-class sports, leisure and shopping developing teamwork, leadership, project The International Society is committed opportunities, you will always find management and communication skills. to promoting international friendship and something to interest and amaze you. Going Global is an online resource celebrating cultural diversity and has which is available to support students more than 3,000 members representing Students studying at the University’s in finding work outside the UK. With over 120 different nationalities from Cheshire campus really can have it comprehensive country-specific career all the universities and colleges in all: it’s the same university, but a very information, Going Global offers access Manchester. It hosts regular social different experience. The Cheshire to job research resources, top company events, arranges community-based campus lies in the heart of rolling listings, and information around issues of projects and organises trips to other UK countryside and offers students concern for foreign professionals. cities and places of interest, such as the chance to study in a relaxed, London and the Lake District. friendly community in safe, peaceful MMU International surroundings, yet with easy access to If this is the first time you have lived For more information, please visit some of the most culturally-rich cities in away from your home and family we internationalsociety.org.uk the world. understand that the thought of spending time in a different country may be a little For more information on what overwhelming, so we do our best to help Manchester and Cheshire have to offer you to prepare. please visit mmu.ac.uk/international MMU International is the International Supporting your study Office at the University. Many of the We recognise that international students MMU International staff, having spent sometimes need extra assistance. time in different countries, are uniquely We have specialist teams to provide the placed to understand your needs as right support for you from application an international student. The team through to graduation and beyond. regularly visits many countries to inform The University’s dedicated student students about opportunities for study
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My experience at the
University has been “extremely interesting and exciting. I would definitely “ recommend potential postgraduate students apply to study here.
Dalya Algarni MA Linguistics student from Saudi Arabia
There is a great mixture of both UK and international “ “students, so I get to learn about different cultures even in a classroom setting.
Xie Li Wong PhD Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Professional Stage student from Malaysia
Choosing a university from
4,000 miles away is difficult, “but Manchester Met made the choice easier with a thorough “ website, knowledgeable staff and an optimistic outlook on the future.
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International students entry requirements and application We can provide support throughout the application process as well as opportunities to improve your English language skills before you begin your studies. You can find country-specific information about many international qualifications on the University’s international website.
As a guide, for most postgraduate Pre-Sessional English English Language Support for courses you will need to achieve IELTS Our pre-sessional English programme International Students – ELSIS 6.5 or above with no less than 5.5 in supports international and EU students Free English language support any component for taught Master’s with an offer for undergraduate or workshops are offered across both (MSc or MA) and 6.5 with no element postgraduate study at the University Manchester and Cheshire campuses below 6.0 in any section for postgraduate who still need to meet their English during term time. The workshops will research (MRes, MPhil or PhD). Some requirements. You will concentrate on help improve your academic language courses may require a higher score. your use of English in an academic skills and boost your confidence in environment and develop the academic classes and seminars. Extra classes and Our British Council-accredited English skills needed on your degree course. one-to-one tutorials are available to help Language Centre can help you to You will leave the course feeling more improve: make rapid progress in the Academic confident about your English ability English you need through our intensive and the expectations of UK academic •Academic writing courses. To apply you will need a valid culture. Courses run in the summer for •Listening, reading and note-taking IELTS certificate from a certified IELTS September academic entry, and in the •General grammar Test Centre. autumn for January starts. •Academic vocabulary •Critical-thinking skills English for University Study Introduction to Academic This course is designed to focus on English One-to-one writing consultations are developing English language skills for This course is aimed at international also available face-to-face or online to study at university. The course helps and EU students holding unconditional support you with your assignments. you improve in all four skill areas – offers for study at Manchester Met reading, writing, speaking and listening, and is designed to help postgraduate For more details visit to the equivalent of IELTS 5.5 overall students develop the academic study mmu.ac.uk/languagecentre and prepares you for the academic skills skills needed for success in the UK. For or email [email protected] you will need at university. You can then example, you will look at how English progress onto one of our pre-sessional is used in an academic context, how to English courses in September, January research using the library and online or April and study for one, two or three resources, and how to reference the terms. You can enter the course in ideas of others in your work. You will October, January or May. also focus on lecture listening and note-taking strategies and how to be a successful participant in a seminar.
Dedicated Education Advisers in most countries to help you with your application
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Applying for your chosen course Study in your home country Contact us Once you’ve decided which course to If you would like to study in your home Education advisers apply for, you will need to submit your country, you can undertake one of Manchester Metropolitan University application. Many international students Manchester Met’s programmes delivered education advisers work in most use a recruitment consultant or education at a partner institution, receiving a countries to provide information and adviser based in their home country to Manchester Metropolitan University application assistance. Please visit your help them. The University works with a certificate upon successful completion. specific country page on our website for number of education advisers worldwide This will enable you to benefit from their contact details. and you may find that we have one in our expertise and research in an your country. They will be able to tell environment that suits your educational Overseas offices you more about the University and how needs and personal circumstances. to present yourself in a way that will Manchester Metropolitan University interest admissions tutors, and some For further information on the also has offices in New Delhi, India will offer you assistance with your visa University’s courses available in your and Guangzhou, China, providing and pre-departure briefings. To check if country please visit links between the University and there is a University appointed education mmu.ac.uk/international our established network of education adviser in your country visit advisers. Staff members are happy to mmu.ac.uk/international Wherever you live in the world, we provide assistance with applying to welcome your application to study study at the University. Visa information with Manchester Metropolitan China Office If you do not hold an EU/EAA passport University. you need to make sure that you have the Email: [email protected] correct visa for the duration of your course. Please see mmu.ac.uk/international for India Office further information. Email: [email protected]
Funding and financial support Contact details It’s not just your course fees you have International Office to think about when working out the Manchester Metropolitan University cost of your studies. You must also take Business School and Student Hub into account the cost of accommodation, Oxford Road food and general living expenses. Manchester M15 6BH Many postgraduates are self-financed, United Kingdom however financial support may be Phone: +44 (0)161 247 1022 available: for non-EU international Email: [email protected] students, the University, the UK Web: mmu.ac.uk/international Government and other UK organisations offer a variety of scholarships. Search for mmuinternational:
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