Master of Creative Arts

Advance your creative practice and shape what comes next.

The Master of Creative Arts is designed for creative practitioners who want to extend their practice, explore new perspectives and develop original responses to contemporary cultural, social, technological and industry contexts.

Throughout the course, you’ll develop advanced capabilities in creative and critical inquiry, experimentation, interdisciplinary practice, innovation, strategic thinking, entrepreneurship, collaboration and curatorial practice. Learning is delivered through integrated studio-based, research-led and applied experiences, allowing you to connect creative exploration with research and professional practice.

Your studies will progress through four thematic studio frameworks — Nature, Technology, People and Place — encouraging you to investigate creative questions from different perspectives while developing your own distinctive creative direction.

The course culminates in an Integrated Capstone Project, where you’ll bring together your research, creative practice, critical reflection and professional application to produce a substantial self-directed creative outcome.

Why Study Creative Industries?

Creative practice is constantly evolving, shaped by new technologies, changing cultural and social contexts, emerging industries and new ways of thinking.

The Master of Creative Arts gives you the opportunity to move beyond established ways of working and develop a more advanced, research-informed and interdisciplinary creative practice.

Throughout the course, you’ll develop the capabilities to:

• Investigate complex creative questions through research and practice-led inquiry

• Develop innovative and original creative works across diverse and interdisciplinary contexts

• Connect theory, research and creative practice to inform your ideas and decision-making

• Explore creative leadership, entrepreneurship and emerging professional opportunities

• Communicate and collaborate with diverse audiences through creative, professional and curatorial forms

• Apply ethical, culturally responsive and inclusive approaches to your creative practice

• Critically reflect on your work and continue evolving your creative and professional direction

These capabilities reflect the course learning outcomes outlined in the course brief.

Graduates of the Master of Creative Arts will be prepared to pursue advanced and evolving forms of creative practice across the creative arts and related industries.

Depending on your existing discipline, experience and creative direction, the course can support pathways in areas such as:

• Independent creative practice

• Collaborative and interdisciplinary creative practice

• Creative innovation and entrepreneurship

• Curatorial practice

• Creative research

• Strategic creative development

• Development and delivery of original creative projects

Rather than preparing graduates for one specific creative profession, the degree is designed to help practitioners establish and articulate an advanced creative practice and shape a distinctive professional and creative trajectory.

All domestic applicants must apply directly at apply.psc.edu.au

Applicants must meet one of the following criteria:

• Successfully completed a recognised Bachelor’s degree (AQF Level 7) in a cognate discipline, or an overseas qualification assessed as equivalent; or

• Successfully completed a recognised Bachelor’s degree (AQF Level 7) in a non-cognate discipline, or an overseas qualification assessed as equivalent, together with evidence of an established creative practice; or

• A minimum of three years of relevant professional experience in the creative arts, together with evidence of an established creative practice.

For the purposes of admission, a cognate discipline is a field of study that provides a foundation for advanced creative arts practice. This may include studies within the creative arts, design, media, communication and related fields.

Evidence of an established creative practice may take a range of forms appropriate to the applicant's discipline and professional context, including a portfolio of creative work, commissions, exhibitions, performances, productions, publications, professional projects or other documented evidence of creative practice.

All applicants will be contacted to discuss their study options.

The Master of Creative Arts is a 72-credit-point postgraduate qualification delivered over three semesters of full-time study. The course includes five 6-credit-point subjects, two 12-credit-point subjects and an integrated 18-credit-point capstone subject.

First Semester

Second Semester

Your Capstone Project

Your studies culminate in the 18-credit-point Creative Practice 3: Futures Project, which serves as the course’s integrated capstone.

Building on the research, inquiry and project development undertaken throughout your degree, you’ll undertake a sustained, self-directed creative project that brings together creative practice, critical reflection and professional application.

The result is a substantial creative outcome that reflects your individual creative direction and demonstrates the advanced capabilities you’ve developed throughout the Master of Creative Arts.

Fee Information

Domestic students who are Australian Citizens may apply for FEE-HELP.

FEE-HELP is not available for international students. International students' tuition fees are paid up-front annually or per semester.

When you accept your offer and complete your enrolment form, you also choose your tuition fee payment option. Master of Creative Arts Course Structure and Fees by Subject 2027

Government Assistance

FEE-HELP Tuition Fee Assistance

PSC is an approved FEE-HELP provider.

FEE-HELP is a government loan scheme that assists eligible fee paying students with loans to pay all or part of their tuition fees. It cannot be used for additional study costs such as equipment and materials, accommodation, living expenses or other costs. It is available to Australian citizens or holders of a permanent humanitarian visa who are enrolled in a higher education course.

Further information about FEE-HELP loans is available in this 2026 FEE-HELP Booklet.

FEE-HELP is available for eligible students for the tuition fees for the Bachelor of Photography and Digital Imaging course. Policies for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Photography and Digital Imaging course including the specific policies that relate to FEE-HELP

Fair Treatment and Equal Benefits and Opportunity (pdf 149 kb)

Student Application and Admissions (Domestic Students) (pdf 184 kb)

Grievance Handling Policy and Procedure (for Academic and Non Academic Matters (pdf 177 kb)

Student Review Procedures for Re-crediting a FEE-HELP Balance (pdf 181kb)

Refund Policy for Eligible Students enrolled in FEE-HELP Enabled Courses (pdf 109Kb)