The course offers hands-on training in key computational tools and digital methods, such as data analysis, web development, digitisation, and AI literacy, while engaging with the broader social, ethical, and theoretical questions surrounding technology’s impact on society. You will be encouraged to explore how algorithms, platforms, and digital infrastructures shape cultural heritage, research practices, and public discourse. Taught on UCL’s Bloomsbury campus, the course provides access to world-leading scholars, industry professionals, and exceptional digital resources. Through seminars, collaborative projects, and an optional industry placement, you will gain insight into real-world applications of digital humanities and develop the confidence to apply digital tools in innovative and meaningful ways. Whether you are coming from a humanities or computing background, the Digital Humanities MSc will help you build concrete digital capabilities while fostering critical thinking. You will graduate equipped to contribute to emerging fields such as digital archiving, cultural data analysis, digital strategy, user experience design, and technology-enhanced research in both academic and commercial settings.
The course is suitable for students with an undergraduate degree in a wide variety of subjects. It allows students with a background in the humanities to acquire the necessary skills in digital technologies and enables those with a more technical background to understand the implications of transforming humanities sources into data. It is as suitable for those seeking continuous professional development (CPD) as for those who hope to gain a graduate degree and enter the job market or to pursue further study.
The cultural heritage and information sectors are increasingly aware of the need to provide, manage and analyse digital material and projects, with institutions and museums investing heavily in online content. As activities like digital content creation, dissemination and analysis are undertaken by an ever-broader range of actors in media and communication, cultural heritage, the governmental and NGO sector, and digital agencies and companies, the digital proposition is being widely taken up.
Our graduates develop tangible skills and are well placed for a career not only in the fast-growing digital sector, but also in public and private-sector research, development, digital strategy and foresight. As well as discipline-specific skills, we have a strong commitment to integrative learning, the development of research skills and the necessity of critically evaluating material and techniques from a wide variety of sources.
Both Digital Humanities MSc and MA graduates have found employment in industry sectors as diverse as academic research and HE (15.7%), IT, technology and telecomms (13.7%), publishing, journalism, or translation (9.8%), arts admin, libraries, museums and heritage (7.8%) and PR, advertising, marketing (7.8%).
They work with employers including the BBC, Deloitte LLP, Cancer Research UK, Historic England, Imperial College London and the National Gallery.*
Others may choose to progress to fully-funded research degrees or further develop their technical skills with a view to becoming programmers and developers.
| QS 综合 | 院校 | 学制 | 学费 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 第 22 位 | 洛桑联邦理工学院EPFL | 2年 | 1560瑞士法郎/年 |
| 第 80 位 | 格拉斯哥大学University of Glasgow | 1年 | 27390英镑/年 |