User Experience Design MSc

Kingston UniversityPenrhyn Road, United Kingdom

Course overview

Gain the skills you need to improve a user’s journey through a product or service You will graduate with an online professional presence and a portfolio that displays your skills. Our User Experience Design MSc course will prepare you for a career as a usability engineer, user researcher, user experience designer or general "UX-er". To support delivery of this course, we created Digital Media Kingston.

This collaboration between the School of Computing and Information Systems and the School of Design provides the multidisciplinary perspective needed to accommodate students with backgrounds in art and design, computer science and the humanities. This course includes the following features, intended to maintain academic standards and ease the transition from university study to commercial practice: project-based teaching and learning talks on principles and methods, and guided practical workshops support the development of UX practice in-class presentations and workshops, and discussions encouraging collaboration coursework topics tailored to development of your portfolio and destination balanced consideration of research, design, prototyping and evaluation in the context of project management a broad coverage of UX issues that covers mobile, desktop and other devices (Internet of Things) user performance and experiential criteria (from utility and efficiency to engagement, persuasion and brand perception) key topics of user journeys, design thinking, usability testing possibility of dovetailing study and work via externally hosted projects, placements and start-ups

Key highlights

Graduate with an online professional presence and skills portfolio
Project-based teaching with guided practical workshops on UX practice
Multidisciplinary delivery combining computing and design schools
Covers user journeys, design thinking and usability testing
UX across mobile, desktop and Internet of Things devices
Option of externally hosted projects, placements and start-ups

Entry requirements

Degree: 2:2 — or above

Scholarships

Alumni Discount
Award: 10% discount on tuition fees.
Up to 10% of fees
Chelsea Arts Club Trust MA Award
The Chelsea Arts Club Trust MA Materials and Research Award is a £2,500 bursary, awarded each year to an MA Fashion or MA Sustainable Fashion student.
Up to £2,500
Chevening Scholarships
Award: Tuition fees, travel costs and living allowance subsidised.
International Merit-Based scholarships
The scholarships are worth £5,000 towards your first year tuition fees.
Up to £5,000
Niloufar Ebrahim Scholarship
The scholarship will cover a portion of tuition fees for the applicant, up to the value of £1,000.
Postgraduate Progression Scholarship
The Kingston University Postgraduate Progressions Scholarship offers a 15% reduction in postgraduate tuition fees.
The Kingston Impact Scholarship
£5,000 tuition fee contribution to two MBA students.
Up to £5,000
The Kingston MBA Scholarship
Kingston University Business School is proud to offer a tuition fee scholarship of £5,000 to self-funded candidates.
Up to £5,000

Careers this course leads to

Usability engineer
User researcher
User experience designer
UX consultant

Cost of study

UK/Home: £11,900 per year | International: £20,000 per year

Admission

Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Kingston University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.

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