What are some creative postgraduate courses in the UK, other than MBA or MIM, that focus on areas like animation, music technology, innovation, gaming, and creative business?
The UK's creative postgraduate landscape is wider than the MBA-or-MIM framing suggests, and several courses let you graduate with a portfolio or a produced project rather than another general management credential.
Courses Mapped to Your Interests
| If you are most interested in | Look at degrees in |
|---|---|
| Making animated content or VFX | University of Dundee, MSc Animation and VFX; University of Huddersfield, MA Animation Production |
| Making games | Coventry University, MA Games Studio Development |
| Music plus technology | University of Portsmouth, MSc Music Technology |
| VR, AR, or immersive tech | University of Portsmouth, MA or MSc Creative Technologies, XR pathway |
| Business within entertainment | University of Warwick, MA Creative and Media Enterprises |
Why Portsmouth's Creative Technologies Stands Out
Portsmouth's MA Creative Technologies lets you specialise in Animation, Extended Reality, Games Development, or Music Technology within one framework, with its MSc version leaning more technical and research-oriented. That flexibility matters if you have not fully decided between these directions yet, since it delays that choice without delaying the degree itself.
If You Already Know Your Direction
- Gaming as an industry, not just design: Coventry's MA Games Studio Development uses a studio model where students design, build, and market playable games with industry mentoring.
- Understanding the creative economy broadly: Keele University's MA Creative and Cultural Industries covers music, media, film, and games alongside cultural policy and management.
- Creative entrepreneurship: Warwick's MA Creative and Media Enterprises focuses specifically on managing people, businesses, and ideas within creative industries.
This Information Is Also Available On
University of Portsmouth, MA and MSc Creative Technologies and MSc Music Technology course pages; Coventry University, MA Games Studio Development course page; University of Dundee, MSc Animation and VFX course page; University of Warwick, MA Creative and Media Enterprises course page.
My Advice
Do not assume an MA is less technical than an MSc in this space; the split depends on the individual university, and Portsmouth, for example, treats its MA as more creative-project focused and its MSc as more technology and research oriented. If you are genuinely torn between two or three of these directions, apply to a flexible framework programme like Portsmouth's rather than forcing an early commitment to a single-discipline course.
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