15 Online programmes offered by the university

The Royal College of Art offers a Graduate Diploma in Art and Design that is a 30‑week, 120‑credit pre‑Master’s programme that provides a bridge between undergraduate study (or non-practical backgrounds) and a full Master’s. 

Ceramics and Glass from Royal College of Art is a material and research-led programme that fuses art, design and skilled making, enabling you to develop a self-directed, critically reflective practice grounded in the transformative power of clay and glass. 

 Contemporary Art Practice from Royal College of Art MFA will be available either as a one year MA or a two year MFA. 

Unleash your imagination and master new methods of self-expression via visual storytelling, live online under the expert guidance of RCA tutor Professor Andrzej Klimowski with this short course in The Graphic Novel: visual storytelling (Online) at Royal College of Art.

Develop your typographic expertise in an open and experimental online environment with this short course in Typography (Online) offered by Royal College of Art, under the expert guidance of Adrian Shaughnessy and other tutors.

Explore key human-centred design principles and how to apply practical tools that place the human experience and people at the centre of transport decision-making, live online with the Human-Centred Design for Intelligent Mobility masterclass at Royal College of Art. 

The Creative Reuse in Architecture and Interior Design course offered by Royal College of Art will be exploring the opportunities and parameters for creative reuse in the built environment.

A practice-led online introduction to the Contemporary Art Summer School (Online) at Royal College of Art, structured around the development of your own self-motivated individual project with the expert guidance of Despina Zacharopoulou.

Ready to deepen, reset or activate your existing creative practice across a global network? In this Arts and Humanities programme from Royal College of Art,  you could be looking at health and care, spatial practices, experimental arts or AI and digital or affective infrastructures. Whatever the theme, you’ll be considering how to address future challenges.

City Design from Royal College of Art is more than just designing physical structures. It’s about how we live together, work, and move. 

Curating Contemporary Art and Design: Why Publish? Publishing as Expanded Curatorial Practice.', with sector leading curators, artists, researchers and writers. The Rethinking Contemporary Performance Art (Online) program is offered at Royal College of Art.

The Designing for an Ageing Population course offered by Royal College of Art will help you discover a new way to think about ageing and how to design services and products for older adults through innovative methodologies and frameworks, led by Colum Lowe, Director of Design Age Institute.

The Arts and Design programme from Royal College of Art will help you expand your practice, refine your portfolio, and open new futures.

Discover an expanded view of editorial design in an open and experimental online environment with this short online course in Editorial Design Short Course at Royal College of Art, under the expert guidance of RCA tutors Adrian Shaughnessy and Astrid Stavro.

A critical introduction to Curating Contemporary Art and Design - Theory and Practice (Online) at Royal College of Art.