Whether you're looking to study full-time or part-time, you can apply for one of our postgraduate art, architecture or design courses directly via your chosen course page.
For the majority of courses at our School of Art, Architecture and Design we require a portfolio. Portfolio guidance can be found below. We may also be asked to attend an interview.
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Art and design subjects
Hear advice from our tutors about what to include in your portfolio when applying to one of our postgraduate art or design subjects.
Architecture
Hear advice from our tutors about what to include in your portfolio when applying to one of our postgraduate architecture courses.
Your portfolio should represent your ability and potential as a designer or artist and should include several recent projects that show evidence of your design work and creativity, presented through undergraduate projects and if relevant professional projects undertaken.
We would like you to show relevant project reports and/or dissertations or essays that evidence academic requirements such as employing a critical approach in extended written work and the use of referencing.
The work you show us can be in any creative medium. PDFs should be no larger than 10MB or links to portfolio websites and blogs should be provided.
You can send more than one PDF.
You do need to show us genuine interest in the course you are applying for. We expect your portfolio to evidence a sufficent range of existing skills as appropriate to the course you are applying for such as CAD, prototyping/realisation/modelmaking, sculpture, visualising and communication techniques, to enable you to undertake your coursework tasks. (It is important to note that MA courses do not teach skills, it is expected that the applicant will already have a range of skills appropriate to the course applied for).
Please show idea development or process which has responded to theory and/or contextual evidence.
PDF submissions
Provide your portfolio as a PDF file. Please use stills only – do not attempt to embed any moving image in the PDF file.
Maximum file size: 10MB.
Please name your interview portfolio file in this way:
Surname in uppercase followed by your London Met or UCAS ID number followed by "portfolio" in uppercase –
SURNAME_LONDONMET/UCAS ID number_PORTFOLIO
For example: SMITH_1234567890_PORTFOLIO
Contacts for further portfolio advice
For further guidance about what to include in your portfolio, please contact the course leader for your chosen course or one of the following staff:
Postgraduate design courses: Kaye Newman (k.newman@londonmet.ac.uk)
Postgraduate architecture courses (MArch Part 2): Nate Kolbe (n.kolbe@londonmet.ac.uk)
Architecture Apprenticeship Part 2 and 3: Simon Kay-Jones (s.kayjones@londonmet.ac.uk)