Program Overview

MA Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Overview

The MA Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship programme teaches students how to apply their existing creative practice to real-world business challenges. The programme focuses on the creative industries and creative entrepreneurship, and shares much of its teaching with other Innovation and Entrepreneurship programmes (MSc and MA).

Key Information

• Programme duration: One year full-time
• Start date: September 2025
• Application deadline:
  • Overseas applicants: 25 July 2025
  • Home applicants: 8 August 2025
• Delivery method: On-Campus
• Location: Clifton
• Awards available: MA

Programme Structure

The degree is delivered through practical units on innovation-led entrepreneurial skills; design and systems thinking; and developing and prototyping ideas.

• First teaching block: Human-centred design thinking to develop innovations that create value by meeting real human needs
• Second teaching block: Exploring solutions for a real-world client, iterating to develop an unexpected range of possibilities and creating prototypes to test with customers or users
• Final summer project: Creating a product or service as an entrepreneurial or innovative new venture

Entry Requirements

• Typical requirements: Upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in any discipline
• Interim grades: Considered if currently completing a degree
• Work experience: Relevant work experience in the creative sector (minimum two years) or a relevant postgraduate qualification
• English language requirements: Profile level C

Fees and Funding

• Home: full-time: £19,700 per year
• Overseas: full-time: £35,300 per year
• Alumni discount: 25% reduction in tuition fees for University of Bristol students and graduates
• Funding and scholarships: Listed on the Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences funding pages

Career Prospects

The programme prepares students to create their own creative entrepreneurial venture or join an existing creative organisation. Graduates will have a portfolio of work and a network of contacts to draw on.

World-Leading Research

• University ranking: Fifth for research in the UK (Times Higher Education)
• Research assessment: 94% of research assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent (REF 2021)