MA Digital Technologies, Communication and Education / Overview
Year of entry: 2025
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- Degree awarded
- Master of Arts
- Duration
- 1 Year
- Entry requirements
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We require a UK Honours degree with a First or Upper Second (2.1) classification or the overseas equivalent.
When assessing your academic record, we take into account the grades you have achieved and the standing of the institution where you studied your qualification.
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Course options
| Full-time | Part-time | Full-time distance learning | Part-time distance learning | |
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| MA | Y | N | N | N |
Course overview
- Join a top ten UK university for Education (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021) and study an award-winning course that brings together theory and practice in teaching and learning.
- Develop skills and experience in a range of digital tools and practices, applying your ideas to real projects in individual and group work.
- Learn to analyse and undertake research in digital education, from detailed evaluation of technological applications through to analysis of social and technological trends.
Open days
The University holds regular open days , where you will have the opportunity to tour the campus and find out more about our facilities and courses.
You will find out more about the School of Environment, Education and Development, our resources, and meet academic and admissions staff who will be able to answer any questions you have.
Fees
For entry in the academic year beginning September 2025, the tuition fees are as follows:
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MA (full-time)
UK students (per annum): £13,000
International, including EU, students (per annum): £29,000
Further information for EU students can be found on our dedicated EU page.
Additional expenses
All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application.
Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).
Policy on additional costs
All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).
Scholarships/sponsorships
There are many internal and external funding opportunities for postgraduate study.
We offer a number of postgraduate taught scholarships and merit awards to outstanding applicants and international students, including:
- Manchester Humanities International Excellence Scholarship : partial discount on tuition fees for selected Master’s programmes, available to international applicants from a number of countries.
- Manchester Alumni Scholarship Scheme : £3,000 reduction on tuition fees to University of Manchester alumni who have achieved a First Class Bachelor's degree and are progressing to a postgraduate taught Master's course.
For further information on available scholarships and bursaries as well as their full eligibility criteria, please visit our funding page or Master's fees and funding .
Contact details
- School/Faculty
- School of Environment, Education and Development
- Contact name
- SEED Postgraduate Admissions Team
- Telephone
- +44(0)161 275 2814
- mie.admissions@manchester.ac.uk
- Website
- https://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/education/study/
- School/Faculty
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See: The School .
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