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Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Taught)

  • MA
  • 1 Years
  • Full-time
  • September 2026
  • Postgraduate
Clifton Campus
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Course summary

Are you a visionary with a passion for the creative industries and a drive to innovate and build?

The MSc in Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship is designed for the next generation of creative leaders, artists, designers, and entrepreneurs who want to transform their ideas into impactful ventures.

This programme is built on the principle of learning by doing, moving beyond traditional lectures and exams. Our curriculum focuses on applying entrepreneurial methods directly to real-world creative challenges. Through collaborative, project-based work with industry partners, you will gain the hands-on experience and critical skills needed to design, launch, and scale innovative ventures in sectors like film, media, digital arts, fashion, gaming and more.

Programme highlights:

  • From Creative Talent to Industry Leader: We welcome students from any creative discipline. This programme will teach you how to apply your existing skills to real-world commercial challenges, whether your goal is to launch a brand, establish a collective, or work as an innovator within a larger creative organisation.

  • Practice-Led, Industry-Connected: Our curriculum is built around teamwork and solving real-world challenges, not exams. This immersive approach ensures you gain invaluable practical experience in taking a creative concept from idea to market.

  • Harness AI for Creative Power: Explore how to use Generative AI tools ethically and responsibly to amplify your creative vision. Learn to leverage this powerful technology to enhance your artistic practice and engage audiences in new and innovative ways.

  • Education Excellence: The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is an accredited Centre of Excellence (IOEE), meaning upon graduation you will automatically qualify for an additional professional qualification—an Advance Diploma in Entrepreneurship. The Centre is also a proud national award winner for our authentic, real-world assessment, recently receiving the AGCAS Academic Employability Award (2025).

  • Launch in a Global Creative Hub: Bristol is a globally recognised hub for the creative industries and is ranked one of the top five best places in the UK to start-up outside of London (Startup Cities Index, 2022). This offers an exceptional environment to build your professional network and launch your creative career.

Teaching for postgraduate programmes in the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will be delivered at our new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, opening 2026. Here, a new Centre student hub, Active Learning Studios, a hands-on Maker Space and event spaces will provide the backdrop for challenge-led learning and enhanced links with businesses.

Find out more about the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: https://bristol.ac.uk/innovation/

Assessment method

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/media/postgraduate/admissions-statements/2026/ma-creative-innovation-and-entrepreneurship.pdf

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs (IOEE)

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Clifton Campus

Study options

  • MA • Full-time • 1 Years

Start dates

  • September 2026

How to apply

International applicants

The University of Bristol welcomes applications from international students and accepts a wide range of qualifications for postgraduate study. If you study or have studied at a university outside the UK, please select the relevant page for further information on qualifications, scholarships and education representatives in your country/region: bristol.ac.uk/international/countries

Entry requirements

You will typically need an upper second class honours degree or an international equivalent in any discipline.

We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree.

We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirement.

If your achieved grade is lower than our entry requirements, your application may be more likely to receive an offer if you have additional qualifications. Please include your CV (curriculum vitae / résumé) when you apply, showing:

  • A relevant postgraduate qualification.
  • Work experience with a minimum duration of six months, paid or internship. Roles should be within the creative sector, for example: advertising, architecture, crafts, creative agency work, designer, fashion/textiles manufacture or design (not simply retail), film, games and TV production, heritage, musician, music production, performing arts/theatre, radio, visual arts (as a maker or curator), or writing and publishing.

See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/international/countries/

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

Per year tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

Fees are subject to an annual review. For programmes that last longer than one year, please budget for up to an 8% increase in fees each year.

For more information, please view the programme page on our website.

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