Masters
Courses
Our Master's programmes are designed for students who want to explore how technology, society and culture intersect - and build future-ready skills to make an impact in any field. You'll gain knowledge from research-led teaching to tackle real-world challenges, gain practical skills in coding, machine learning, and digital technologies, and combine critical thinking with creative problem-solving. You'll be ready for careers across tech, AI and big data, policy, media, culture, and beyond.
Explore our Masters courses
MASc in AI and Society
Our new MASc in AI and Society empowers you to shape the future of artificial intelligence. You’ll gain both the critical insight to question AI’s impact on the world and the technical skills to build and test real AI systems. From hands-on coding and experimentation to influencing governance and policy around emerging technologies, this programme prepares you to become a creative, responsible leader in a society transformed by AI.
MSc in Big Data and Digital Futures
Governments, businesses and organisations across every sector are searching for people who can not only work with big data, but also understand its power, its limits, and its impacts on society. We prepare you to meet that demand.
You'll learn to engage with big data theoretically, methodologically, and practically. You'll gain skills to analyse complex datasets while also asking critical questions about what they mean, who they serve, and how they shape the world.
MA in Digital Media and Culture
In today's world, culture itself is digital. From social media platforms to mobile apps and cloud infrastructures, cultural software now shapes how we live, work, and connect.
Explore the digital realm critically and creatively. Gain hands-on experience with the tools and techniques for engaging with web platforms, apps, and networks, while also examining the social, economic, and political stakes behind them.
MASc in Data Visualisation
Develop understanding and skills required to design, implement and interpret data visualisations. Learn how they shape knowledge, influence policy, and guide public debate. Through hands-on projects, you'll create a portfolio that blends methodology, creativity and critical insight, showing how visual tools can reveal patterns, challenge assumptions and inspire action.
Careers and Employability
Today's employers are looking for more than specialist knowledge. They need people who can think critically about complex problems, work creatively across disciplines, use digital tools and technology with confidence and adapt quickly to change. That's exactly what CIM students do. Learn more about the careers you could thrive in and what previous CIM students have gone on to do.
What's it like to study with CIM?
Our courses prepare you for the future by exploring beyond boundaries of individual disciplines.
We explore how digital technologies such as AI shape culture, politics and society.
We provide you with future-ready skills. From coding and data visualisation to digital design and marketing, you'll gain vital skills for any industry.
We focus on hands-on learning with real-world applications. Through workshops and live research projects, you'll build a portfolio that sets you apart.
Our teaching and research spans many fields to tackle real-world problems.
