MA Designing Learning Environments

About the course

1 year full-time/2 years part-time

This course explores the relationship between learning, children and young people's culture and educational environments. You'll draw on international theory and practice as well as the expertise of Sheffield's renowned team of educational design researchers and practitioners. There is an emphasis on school and kindergarten environments, but scope to explore a range of other educational settings.

This course addresses a growing national and international need for professionals who are skilled in the spatial design of learning environments.

Entry requirements

You'll need a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or other equivalent qualification related to design in the built environment, including architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, town planning or education and learning, or another subject which involves the design of learning environments.

If you have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) in another area plus a teacher-training qualification or substantial professional design experience in architecture, interior design, landscape design, town planning, construction or education then we'll consider your application.

We'd also like to see your portfolio to get an idea of your design abilities and a written statement of your interest in the design of learning environments.

English language requirements

Overall IELTS grade of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each component or equivalent.

Entry requirements for international students 

Teaching

• Seminars
• Research and design work
• The opportunity to relate coursework to your professional setting

Fees and funding

Financial information for postgraduate taught courses

Any questions?

If you'd like to know more about any aspect of our courses, contact us:

E: pg-enquiries@sheffield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)114 222 0310/0309

Advance your career

You could become a professional architect in an international leading-edge practice like many of our past graduates.

Employers include the Olympic Park Legacy Company, Hawkins Brown, Renzo Piano Building Workshop and URBED (Urbanism, Environment & Design) Ltd.

With a post-qualification degree, you could move on to a senior position or follow further academic research and teaching.

Post-qualification masters

All our post-qualification masters courses are available as part of the PhD with Integrated Studies programme offered by the School of Architecture, providing an appropriate entry-level one-year preparation for doctoral research.

Learn from experts

You'll be joining one of the largest and most diverse groups of full-time architecture academics in the country. Our staff have backgrounds in many areas, including the arts, physical and social sciences and engineering.

This connects our research to other disciplines and creates a stimulating environment, leading to a vigorous and critical debate about the future of architecture.

Explore your ideas

You'll find all the tools you'll need. We have design studios, traditional lecture and seminar areas, research rooms, specialised laboratories and computing facilities. There are also specialist architecture resources in the University library.

You'll be able to access our own technical workshop, photographic and audio-visual unit, a range of specialist lighting, acoustic and thermal environmental assessment and experimental facilities, and a postgraduate common room.

Apply now

You can apply for postgraduate study using our Postgraduate Online Application Form. It is a quick and easy process.

Postgraduate Online Application Form