Learning at a famous international College
The College's heritage dates from 1894 when the School was located near Fleet Street in the heart of London's publishing and printing district and still home to St Bride Printing Library. We have been at the forefront of publishing vocational education courses for graduates since 1969. We continue to make our graduate courses as relevant today as when we pioneered 40 years ago the first postgraduate certificate in printing and publishing at the Elephant and Castle campus. Our Publishing Master's was introduced in 1999 and is now located within the leading Faculty of Media. With digital covergence the course is constantly updated in the light of the dynamic changes facing the industry within the Internet and global digital network economy.
Master of Arts Publishing and Pathways
For dedicated and practical professional study our Publishing Master's at the LCC in London offers a choice of publishing pathways. You can choose to study Book or Magazine publishing. Both pathways include holistic learning of how to commission, market, produce and distribute editorial content across multiple platforms and devices - print, online and mobile.
Each pathway concentrates on the individual needs and challenges of book and magazine publishing. Your teaching and learning will be focused on your choice of pathway study. Both pathways offer opportunities for book and magazine students to work collaboratively on joint projects and attend the separate industry speakers' programmes. On successful completion of the course you will have accumulated the full 180 learning credits and will be awarded by the University of the Arts London with world-class MA Publishing qualification.
Postgraduate Diploma
Should you have successfully completed two out of the three phases, but do not proceed, or do not successfully complete the third phase, the major project (dissertation) of the MA, you will have nevertheless gained the required number of learning credits, 120 credits, and will be awarded by the University of the Arts London with the esteemed Postgraduate Diploma Publishing qualification.
Course Period
The MA Publishing at London College of Communication runs for 12 months from the end of September beginning every year. The PG Diploma Publishing accounts for only two thirds of the MA and runs to early May.
Teaching Timetable
As our MA Publishing is a demanding and high quality one year full-time course the lectures and teaching are scheduled weekly during Phase 1 and Phase 2 from Wednesday to Friday, excluding the University's term breaks. This timetable allows for a real depth and breath of study across all of the functions and knowledge base that makes up this challenging multidisciplinary Master's. The timetable also allows generous time to attend each industry guest speakers' programme by pathway and to work within your study group to complete stretching projects. In addition, the timetable enables you to attend in our studios two skills-based training sessions for the development of publishing design layout skills and web publishing skills. This timetable allows you to have free time on Monday and Tuesday for work experience assignments, or for researching assignments for assessment. Over the summer months in Phase 3 you work independently with guidance from your academic supervisor to research, complete and write up your major project, which is an extensive dissertation of a publishing topic you have chosen.
Entry requirements and admissions
The normal entry requirement for this course is an honours degree. Other qualifications however that are deemed to be equivalent, along with any relevant professional or commercial experience, can be considered in lieu of this. We wish to interview applicants personally wherever practical as well to ensure the course will fit your needs. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this (or anything else) please ask us directly.
For full details about the admissions process for the MA Publishing at LCC please see the Entry Requirements section on the main college or university website. Your application to join the MA Publishing course should specify which pathway you wish to pursue - MA Publishing (Book and Journal) or MA publishing (Magazine).
Fees
Full details of fees, inclusive of any supplementary charges, see the Home/EU Fee or International Fee sections on the main college site.
Widening Participation and Equality of Opportunity
The University of the Arts London is committed to creating a culture in which diversity and equality of opportunity are actively promoted and in which unlawful discriminated is not tolerated. The course participated in the ground-breaking positive action Diversity in Publishing Traineeships initiative run between 2004 to 2007 by the Arts Council England to encourage wider employment in the publishing industry for new entrants from UK non-white ethnicity. The course supports the Diversity in Publishing Network.
Sammia Rafique (below) is presented at the LCC with the Arts Council's Publishing Traineeship for 2006-07. The award included an internship with Arts Council financial support at Serpent's Tail. LCC's MA Publishing course sponsored the tuition fees for Sammia to undertake the course. The experience and education subsequently led Sammia to start her career in editorial at HarperCollins.
Today our MA Publishing course participates in The Publishing Training Centre's BME Scholarship Scheme. This scheme carries a bursary of £4,000 from The Publishing Training Centre. For 2009/2010 one student is being sponsored by this excellent scheme to widen equal opportunities in the UK book and journal publishing sector.
Guest Lecture Series
As well as lectures, seminars and workshops with our staff and technicians, we host regular Publishing Industry Guest Lectures, where professionals from all over the publishing industry are invited to talk to the students and to answer questions. See the Visiting Guest Speakers section in the Book and Journal pathway or the Magazine pathway pages for more details and lists of recent guest lecturers.
