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Welcome to the World's No.1 Art and Design University.*
Push the limits of your practice through a Master's in Fashion or Textiles. Join students from a range of backgrounds looking to enhance their creative practice and gain unrivalled opportunities to enhance your career, build networks and solve global challenges.
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- 27 February 2023
Read time
- 2 minutes
Fashion MA
Guided by diversity, inclusivity and cultural awareness, we create an environment where you can engage with the processes of creativity and exploration. Covering themes such as gender, culture, race, justice, nature, time, space, data, science, materials and magic. Throughout you will have the opportunity to reflect on, discuss and strengthen your own authentic identity, and help others to do the same
1 year programme | Full-time study
Textiles MA
Through our practice-led research, we develop textiles and materials that are conceived and created by ‘thinking through making’. By focusing on radical experimentation, material exploration and transformation, we encourage an exploratory, non-linear approach that embraces the conceptual, allowing a space for the incidental and accidental processes of discovery that foster a culture of research through physical and digital making.
1 year programme | Full-time study
Graduate Diploma Art & Design (Fashion & Textiles specialism)
The Graduate Diploma prepares you for Master’s study at the RCA. The Design specialism supports students aspiring to our Fashion MA or Textiles MA. Applications are currently open for the January 2025 intake, completing in August.
30 weeks | On-campus, online or dual-learning modes of study
The application deadline is 6 December 2024 at 12 noon (GMT).
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Online Open Day
On Wednesday 9 October we are hosting an Online Open Day → for the Graduate Diploma from 2.00-4.00pm (UK time). Join us to find out about this programme.
Masters Degree Portfolio Q&As (Online)
Hear from our Admissions Tutors on what we look for in a good application and portfolio. This includes a question and answer session.
Meet the RCA around the World
Our academic staff and student recruitment team host events for potential students when visiting countries around the World.
Explore Fashion & Textiles Student Profiles
View the work of graduating Fashion and Textiles students at RCA2024 through our online Student Profiles.
School of Design
The Fashion MA and Textiles MA live in our School of Design which which engages with design on multiple levels, from the highly conceptual to the deeply practical, with a strong culture of innovation, experimentation and debate.
Our alumni
Our alumni form an international network of creative individuals who have shaped and continue to shape the world. These include former students such as Toby Auberg, Wu-Ching Chang, Ian Gouldstone, Lena Dobrowolska, David Glueck and Saleh Kayyali.
*QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024: Art & Design
Why choose the RCA?
Teaching and research expertise
The opportunity to learn from world-leading academic staff. We are the only UK art and design university where all academics are research active – meaning everything we teach is related to cutting-edge research.
Renowned alumni
Our 20,000 alumni are leaders in their disciplines, making national and international headlines. Alumni include Henry Moore, Bridget Riley, David Hockney, Sir Ridley Scott, Sir Frank Bowling, Sir James Dyson, Tracey Emin, Philip Treacy, Christopher Bailey and Thomas Heatherwick.
Creative networks
The RCA is the world’s largest concentration of postgraduate artists and designers, representing the largest talent-base and most opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration available at Master’s and doctoral level.
Interdisciplinary connections
Our College-wide annual projects and challenges help our students find like-minded creatives to solve major global problems, grow their networks, or find future business partners.
A diverse community
An RCA student might be a creative practitioner, career-changer, or come straight from an undergraduate course. We welcome students from over 70 countries, and offer a wide range of scholarships. A quarter of our students come from a non-arts background.
Build your career
From start-up support to tailored careers activities, to live projects with leading companies, charities and NGOs, the RCA helps move your career to the next level.
