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Art and Design — your postgraduate offer

At the Nottingham School of Art & Design, you’ll join a dynamic community where creativity and innovation thrive. Our postgraduate courses are designed to push boundaries, challenge conventions, and help you shape what comes next.

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Discover your potential with a postgraduate course at the Nottingham School of Art & Design, NTU. With a rich history of over 175 years, we empower artists and designers to innovate and lead in a rapidly evolving industry.

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Whether you're ready to accept your offer, or still need a little more time to decide, we've got you covered.

Why choose Nottingham School of Art & Design?

At Nottingham School of Art & Design, postgraduate study is about more than gaining a qualification. It’s about developing a confident creative voice, building industry‑ready skills, and joining a community that challenges and supports you.

Study within one of the UK’s most established art and design schools, with purpose‑built studios, specialist workshops and industry‑standard equipment designed to support advanced creative practice.

You’ll be taught by tutors who are practicing artists, designers and researchers, bringing real‑world insight, critical challenge and professional perspective to your work.

Our postgraduate courses encourage experimentation, critical thinking and independent enquiry, helping you refine your ideas and take creative risks in a supportive environment.

You’ll join a diverse cohort of postgraduate students from around the world, working collaboratively across disciplines and learning from one another’s perspectives.

Whether your ambition is professional practice, industry, entrepreneurship or further research, your course is designed to help you position yourself confidently for your future career.

Meet our postgraduate students

Discover the people behind the practice. Hear about our students’ creative journeys, their experiences of postgraduate study, and how the Nottingham School of Art & Design has supported their ambitions.

Postgraduate career support

Discover the comprehensive employability support, resources, and guidance available to our postgraduate students, designed to help you fast-track your career.

Our facilities

We’ve built the perfect spaces for you to create and thrive.

Your space to create

As a postgraduate student at the Nottingham School of Art & Design, you’ll have access to professional‑level creative spaces designed to support experimentation and innovation.

Find out more about your course

Your postgraduate course has been designed to help you deepen your practice, explore new directions and develop advanced creative, technical and critical skills.

Postgraduate student showcase

We are what we create

Explore our online showcase - We Are Creatives. Celebrating the work of the Nottingham School of Art & Design's students, you will find a sneak peak of some of our postgraduate student's work - giving you a real insight into what it's like to be part of the NTU creative community.

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