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Master's courses
Study communication design, typographic research or creative enterprise at postgraduate level.
Why study with us?
Our Department has an international reputation for its teaching and research. On our master's programmes you'll benefit from the collective expertise of our academic staff, researchers and visiting practitioners.
Our collections and archives
Archives from major individual designers and design companies are an important part of our collection. They make a unique contribution to our teaching, to postgraduate research, and as a source of inspiration to our students.
How you'll study
You'll learn in small-group workshops and seminars, and apply your design skills to practical projects. You'll also work with historical material from our collections and gain insights in how design practice reflects past and present technology and contexts.
Student work
Life in the Department
You'll engage with your fellow postgraduates and researchers in a supportive, collegiate environment.
Read Dan's story
My time at Reading was the start of many relationships with colleagues and specialists whose own work is vital to what we’re doing at Adobe now.
Dan Rhatigan
Master's graduate and Senior Manager at Adobe Type
Our research
In the last research excellence framework, we were ranked first in the UK for research in our sector (Times Higher Education Institutions ranked by subject, based on its analysis of the last research excellence framework (REF) 2014).