Institution Details

The Royal College of Art is the world’s only wholly postgraduate art and design institution, offering MA, MPhil and PhD degrees. The College is housed in a number of sites in South Kensington and Battersea, including the Darwin Building at Kensington Gore, and Stevens Building nearby in Jay Mews.

There are six schools at the Royal College of Art in architecture, communication, design, fine art, humanities, and materials, offering 24 different programmes.

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A free airport pick-up service for international and EU students from Heathrow takes place in September and a number of orientation and social events also take place to help you integrate into the area and College. International Student Support will also assist in opening bank accounts, healthcare, housing and applying for a student visa.

Postgraduate Art and Design

(1) Scholarship Name Ameea Scholarship (Intelligent Mobility)
Nationality International
For: MA Intelligent Mobility

Eligible fee status: Home & Overseas (EU) fee status

Value: Full fees & maintenance (Home) / Fee discount (Overseas - EU)

(2) Scholarship Name GREAT Scholarships
Scholarship amount - £10,000
For: All one-year MA, MArch, MFA, MDes & MEd programmes

Eligibility criteria: Passport holders of India, Nigeria or Thailand

Eligible fee status: Overseas fee status

Value: £10,000 towards fees

(3) Scholarship Name Logitech Diversity Scholarship in Art and Design
Scholarship amount Full fees
For: MA Design Products, MA Fashion, MA Service Design, MA Textiles, MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering

Eligibility criteria: Students from under-represented communities

Eligible fee status: Home & Overseas fee status

Value: Full fees

(4) Scholarship Name Power Scholarship
Scholarship amount - £5,000
For: MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering

Eligible fee status: Home & Overseas fee status

Value: £5,000 towards fees

(5) Scholarship Name The Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award
Scholarship amount Full fees & Maintenance
For: MA Painting

Eligibility Criteria: Students from China, France, Monaco, Portugal, Spain

Value: Full fees & maintenance

(6) Scholarship Name The Deputy Vice Chancellor’s EU Scholarship
Scholarship amount - £7,000
For: All MA programmes, MArch, MFA, MDes, MRes & MEd

Eligibility criteria: Students from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey

Eligible fee status: Overseas fee status

Value: £7,000 towards fees

This scholarship is awarded to Round 2 and Round 3 high-scoring students on the basis of academic merit.

Round 2 and 3 programme applications will be automatically assessed for one of these scholarships. If you are successful as a Round 2 offer holder you will be told about this at the same time as receiving your RCA programme offer; if you are successful as a Round 3 offer holder, you will be sent an email confirmation from the Scholarships Team from early May.