Prospective MA Students
York has become one of the world's foremost History of Art departments, with wide-ranging and internationally renowned expertise in western art and architecture from the early medieval to the contemporary periods. We offer a supportive and stimulating environment for all of our MA students, who come to York from across the UK and across the world. As an MA student in the department, you would benefit from:
- World-leading teaching and research
- A highly innovative and flexible degree programme
- Teaching by distinguished visiting scholars
- A large and dynamic postgraduate community
- An exciting new MA partnership with Tate Britain
- Our close links with national and international galleries, museums and auction-houses
One of the distinctive features of York MAs is that you can tailor your degree to suit your individual needs and interests. We pride ourselves on offering an extremely comprehensive, ambitious and flexible set of MA programmes that allow students either to range across a wide variety of subjects, periods and themes, or to pursue specialist pathways in particular areas of art-historical study. As well as welcoming students who have previously studied history of art, we welcome those with backgrounds in other humanities-related fields.
For more information on our exciting MA options, follow the links below.
We are hosting an Open Day on Wednesday 2 December. To visit York and learn more about our programmes, please see the University's Open Day webpage to register. The History of Art session will begin at 12.15 and conclude at about 1.30, with the option afterwards of joining one of our postgraduate research events to see York's art-historical research culture in action.