MA Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- MA
Overview
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.
Find out more about the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Programme structure
Our degree is delivered through a series of hands-on units designed to build your entrepreneurial toolkit for the creative industries. The programme is structured across three distinct phases, and assessment is based entirely on real-world individual and group coursework, with no traditional exams.
Term 1: Becoming a Creative Innovator - The first term focuses on mastering the core skills of innovation within a creative context. We will teach you how to use human-centred design to understand your audience, conduct research to develop impactful creative concepts, and build the foundations to become a leader in your chosen creative field.
Term 2: Applying Your Creative Vision - In the second teaching block, you will apply your learning in two high-impact, real-world business scenarios:
- Act as a Management Consultant, working for a real-world industry partner to solve a live brief.
- Become a Founder, building a compelling proposal for a new internal venture or spin-out with your team.
Summer: Launching Your Creative Venture - Your final summer project is a launchpad for your career. It is the culmination of your learning, where you will develop and present a viable new creative product, service, or venture, ready for its next steps in the real world.
Visit our programme catalogue for full details of the structure and unit content for our MA in Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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. Specific module requirements would still apply./p>
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.
See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.
Read the programme admissions statement for important information on entry requirements, the application process and supporting documents required.
If English is not your first language, you will need to reach the requirements outlined in our profile level C.
Further information about English language requirements and profile levels.
Fees and funding
- Home: full-time
- £20,200 per year
- Overseas: full-time
- £36,300 per year
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.
More about tuition fees, living costs and financial support.
Alumni discount
University of Bristol students and graduates can benefit from a 25% reduction in tuition fees for postgraduate study. Check your eligibility for an alumni discount.
Funding and scholarships
Further information on funding for prospective UK and international postgraduate students.
Career prospects
This programme prepares you for a high-value career in the global creative economy, equipping you to become a founder or a leader in a creative organisation. Our graduates are dynamic, commercially astute professionals who are now succeeding in a wide range of impactful roles. Recent graduates have gone on to become:
- Founders of their own startups in sectors ranging from logistics to supporting the neurodivergent community.
- Designers and Strategists within global firms, shaping the future of products and services.
- Innovation and Change Leaders in high-growth FinTech companies such as Monzo and Easol, applying design thinking to secure and excel in competitive roles.
- Programme Managers in international start-up ecosystems, responsible for evaluating and supporting the next generation of new ventures.
- Consultants at world-leading firms like KPMG, using their strategic skills to create lasting impact for clients.
Contact us
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- Enquiries Team
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- +44 (0) 117 394 1649
- choosebristol-pg@bristol.ac.uk