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Animation, film, games and creative media

Do you want to push the boundaries of your creativity and level up your skills within the ever-evolving world of animation, games, film and media?

Are you keen to challenge yourself and ready to cross into new creative frontiers that will give you even more of a competitive advantage in the workplace?

The University of Hertfordshire has carefully crafted a range of innovative postgraduate courses that reflect modern industry needs and are taught by highly skilled academic staff.

From digital media arts to film production, this subject area is focused on practice-based learning, experimentation and independence.

Project-led learning connects the different courses in this area. You will take control of your learning and focus your attention on fine-tuning the skills most relevant to your future career.

Benefit from industry standard facilities and build your skills in key production processes and professional practices in your chosen field. Work on live external briefs prior to graduating and enhance your career prospects. Previous graduates have gone on to work for major games companies including BAFTA winning UK games studio Creative Assembly, Frontier, Splash Damage, Guerrilla Games, Epic Games and Rare.

Students from this subject area have won multiple awards including Best International Documentary (Student Academy Awards, 2018) and Outstanding Postgraduate of the Year (TIGA UK Games Education Awards, 2022). Are you ready to join the Alumni?

Why choose Herts?

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1st in the UK

for best creative media and entertainment school (20th worldwide - Rookies World School Rankings, 2022)

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2nd in the UK

Overall –  Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES, Advance HE, 2023)

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