Master of Arts in Creative Writing with Professional Placement

An eighteen month master degree in creative writing including a placement, covering fiction and poetry craft, editing, publishing routes and supervised professional practice.

This route asks IELTS 7.0 like the taught version, and the placement gives access to publishing and editorial work that writing alone rarely opens.

Master of Arts in Creative Writing with Professional Placement is taught at the Birmingham City University, a UK university with degree awarding powers. Because the creative writing placement master is a degree, it supports an application under the UK Graduate Route, which gives two years of unsponsored work in Britain after the creative writing placement master ends, or three years for a doctorate. To claim it after the creative writing placement master you must be inside the UK on a valid student visa when you apply. One limit applies to the creative writing placement master as to every taught course in Britain: the rules introduced in January 2024 stop taught students bringing a spouse or children as dependants, so the creative writing placement master cannot support a family move.

Candidates for Master of Arts in Creative Writing with Professional Placement present a bachelor degree at 70 percent. The English requirement is IELTS 7.0 with no band below 6.5, and tuition for the creative writing placement master is recorded at GBP 20,865 a year. BCU charges no application fee, so applying for the creative writing placement master costs you nothing, and no scholarship is recorded against it. the creative writing placement master lists three September entry windows, in 2026, 2027 and 2028. Apply Study Visa manages the the creative writing placement master application, the deposit, the offer, the CAS and the UK student visa as one process.