Interactive Experience Design MA

Entry requirements

Qualifications

We normally require a 2:2 degree or above, or equivalent qualification, in a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

We also consider candidates with other relevant qualifications or equivalent professional experience.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Why study Interactive Experience Design MA at Middlesex University

MA Interactive Experience Design empowers you to create and critique immersive, interactive worlds that merge storytelling, design, and technology. Through taught sessions and embedded credit-bearing work experience modules you’ll explore how data, narrative, and real-time engines combine to shape user experience for place-based experiences across games, XR, and installation design. Practice-based learning, ethical innovation, and employability are embedded throughout the programme.

• Build expertise in designing immersive, interactive worlds that blend storytelling, play, and technology.
• Learn to prototype experiences using real-time engines and emerging tools, from XR to AI-driven systems.
• Study in London — a global hub for creative technology, games, and media innovation.
• Develop an ethical, sustainable, and inclusive approach to interactive design practice.
• Prepare for roles in games, XR, creative technology, and experience design through professional mentoring and employability support.
• Join an interdisciplinary community of digital creatives studying together in our state-of-the-art facilities at MDX Studios. Facilities include games labs with high-end hardware for high graphic processing (NVIDIA) and a wealth of industry software including Unreal Engine. Our Motion Capture studio utilises a range of sophisticated technology to enable the creation of industry-level VFX and VP. The Kit Hub has a vast collection of high-end creative tech to support student projects including professional cameras, sound recording kit and VR headsets. With strong relationships with industry partners, Kit Hub is vital resource for our creative community to keep up to date with the latest tech. We have studios for film, animation and sound recording studios as well as suites for editing and colour grading. We offer Avid Media Composer and Pro Tools certification.
• Connect with the creative industries and the local community through our partners at Screen London Barnet.

Fees and funding

Fees and funding

The fees below are for the 2026/2027 academic year.

UK students1

Full-time students: £13,700
Part-time students: £90 per credit
Part-time students: £45 per dissertation credit

If you were to study over two years part-time, you would usually pay £5,400 for the first year of study, and £8,100 in the second.

International students2

Full-time students: £20,100
Part-time students: £134 per credit
Part-time students: £67 per dissertation credit

If you were to study over two years part-time, you would usually pay £8,040 for the first year of study, and £12,060 in the second.