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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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- 6 November 2024
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- 2 minutes
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Find out about our application process, eligibility requirements and key dates.
The round 1 application deadline for Master’s and MPhil/PhD programmes is 13 January 2025, 12 noon GMT.
Featured programmes
Fashion MA
Join a Master’s programme looking to reform the dominant fashion paradigm. We shift the focus from making clothes to concerning ourselves with the environment, social responsibility, and geopolitical and economic challenges.
Fashion is designed, articulated, manipulated and simulated in both physical and digital spaces. It is at its best when guided by diversity, inclusivity and cultural awareness. At the RCA, we invite you to examine the systems and structures of fashion. We’re looking for individuals open to new and emerging ways of thinking.
1-year programme | Full-time study
Textiles MA
Join a Master’s programme operating at the intersection of design, craft and fine art. At the RCA, we actively challenge the role of the modern Textiles practitioner. Practice-led research is fundamental to our approach. We embrace a ‘thinking through making’ approach, exploring materials and processes to uncover new insights in the physical and digital domains.
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 for the Graduate Diploma Art & Design intake in May 2025 will open in January. Register for updates and reminders about applying to the Graduate Diploma.
30 weeks | On-campus, online or dual-learning modes of study
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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.
Find out more about the School of Design
Explore Fashion & Textiles Student Profiles
View the work of graduating Fashion and Textiles students at RCA2024 through our online Student Profiles.
Explore RCA2024 Student Profiles
Our alumni
Our alumni form an international network of creative individuals who have shaped and continue to shape the world. Fashion and Textiles alumni include former students such as Christopher Bailey CBE (MA Fashion Womenswear, 1994); Orla Kiely (MA Knitted Textiles, 1992); Julian MacDonald OBE (MA Fashion, 1996; Althea McNeish (Textiles, 1957); Erdem Moralioglu MBE (MA Fashion Womenswear, 2003); Saul Nash (MA Fashion, 2018); Dame Zandra Rhodes (MA Textiles, 1964); Bianca Saunders (MA Fashion, 2017); Emma J Shipley (MA Textiles, 2011); Douglas Stewart (Fashion Menswear, 2020); Philip Treacy OBE (MA Fashion, 1990); Alice Temperley (MA Textiles, 1999); Sue Timney (MA Textiles, 1979) and Donna Wilson (MA Textiles, 2003).
*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’re the only specialist art and design university where all of our permanent teaching and research staff are also research active and included in the RCA’s submissions to the UK Research Excellence Framework.
Renowned alumni
Our 28,000 alumni are leaders in their disciplines, making national and international headlines. Alumni include:
- Hoor Al Qasimi
- Hurvin Anderson RA
- Christopher Bailey CBE
- Sir Peter Blake
- Sir Frank Bowling
- Sir James Dyson OM
- Dame Tracey Emin RA
- Sir Anthony Finkelstein
- Thomas Heatherwick RDI, CBE
- Dame Barbara Hepworth
- Lubaina Himid RA CBE
- David Hockney OM
- Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq
- Asif Kapadia
- Julian MacDonald OBE
- Henry Moore OM
- Erdem Moralioglu MBE
- Morag Myerscough
- Dame Magdalene Odundo
- Chris Ofili CBE
- Bridget Riley
- Peter Schreyer
- Sir Ridley Scott
- Douglas Stewart
- Philip Treacy OBE
- Dame Zandra Rhodes.
A diverse creative community
The RCA is the world’s largest postgraduate-only art and design university, representing an exciting talent base and opportunities to build your network and collaborate. An RCA student might be working in industry or the arts, a career-changer, or come straight from an undergraduate course. We typically welcome students from over 70 countries.
Interdisciplinary connections
Our College and School-wide projects, activities and challenges help our students find like-minded creatives to solve major global problems, grow their networks, or find future business partners. Find out more about AcrossRCA.
Build your career
Find out more about how the RCA can help move your career to the next level with our Graduate Careers Report.
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