MScArts and Culture: Creative Industries
| Study location | Netherlands, Nijmegen |
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| Type | Master courses, full-time |
| Nominal duration | 1 year (60 ECTS) |
| Study language | English |
| Awards | MSc |
| Tuition fee | €16,000 per year |
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| Application fee | €75 one-time The handling fee is NOT applicable to: - Students with a nationality from the EEA countries or from countries that are candidates for EEA membership* This fee will be refunded to you once you are fully enrolled as a student at Radboud University. The fee is NOT refundable when you are not admitted. |
| Entry qualification | Undergraduate diploma (or higher) Bachelor’s degree in Creative Industries: Cultural Studies, Art History or a Bachelor’s of Arts with at least 30 EC in Art History, Cultural Studies and/or Cultural Policy. Please provide a list of all courses you have taken, are taking, and are planning to take including course content, the number of hours and literature used. See an example here. The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / German / Dutch. Often you can get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original. It is required that you send verified copies of the entry qualification documents directly to the university by postal mail. Important! Never send original documents by post! Radboud University |
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| Language requirements | English - IELTS Academic: ≥ 6.5 overall, subscores ≥ 6.0, writing subscore ≥ 6.5 |
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| Other requirements | A motivation letter must be added to your application. Please describe why you have chosen to study this programme and how it fits your previous education. Resume |
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Overview
What do your clothes say about your identity? Can an artist still breakthrough without competing on a talent show? The creative industry is a fast-changing sector where the focus always seems to be on the tension between creativity and commerce. You may wonder how it could be any different, in a world where creativity has become a commodity.
Master’s programme in Creative Industries: something for you?- Look at many areas of the creative industry: not just fashion, music, film and television, but also (social) media and education.
- Approaching the creative industries with a strong focus on culture.
- A hands-on programme, with several assignments a week challenging you to develop the ‘soft skills’ to be successful in the labour market.
- Having close contacts with art and cultural organisations in and around Nijmegen.
Programme structure
The Master’s specialisation in Creative Industries is taught at the Faculty of Arts. It has a course load of 60 EC* (one-year). All the courses are 5 EC and the Master’s Thesis is 20 EC. The structure of the programme is presented here.
Career opportunities
The jobs you might find yourself doing after graduating from this programme are extremely varied. The terrain of creative industries is as diverse as it is big and it’s continually expanding, creating lots of new potential jobs. We, therefore, expect there will be more and more demand for people with expertise in the creative industries.
To give you an idea of possible jobs, here a sample of jobs the graduates are now doing:
- Trend watcher for companies
- Consultant art education for an educational organisation
- Consultant ‘quality television’ for a national commercial television station
- Cultural policy-maker for the government
- Festival organiser
- Webmaster at a museum
- Programme organiser at a film festival