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    MSc 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time, 5 years flexible

Course Description

UCL offers one of the world’s most comprehensive master’s degrees in Light and Lighting. We bring together the technical and creative sides of lighting design, to offer an extensive package of knowledge and skills that are employed across the lighting industry and built environment. You will learn to design lighting as an integrated component of architecture, utilising exciting advances in science and technology whilst taking into consideration human responses to the lit environment.

From gas lamps to LEDs, as technology has progressed the lighting industry has become increasingly specialist. UCL’s Light and Lighting MSc is designed to give you a comprehensive package of knowledge and skills for a career in the lighting profession. As a student on the programme you’ll gain in-depth expertise on the science of light, lamp and luminaire technologies, alongside the impact of light on architectural form and the human response. This will give you the vision to design beautiful lit environments that promotes the wellbeing of their users, and the skills to ensure that they are successfully engineered.

Entry Requirements

The normal minimum qualifications are a second-class Bachelor’s degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

A second acceptable qualification is a degree of lower than second-class Bachelor’s standard, or an equivalent overseas qualification, in a subject appropriate to the programme, plus extensive background and experience in the field. The latter implies considerable experience as a professional at a senior level.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.

Student Destinations

This degree gives you a comprehensive package of lighting knowledge widely employed across industry. During the Master’s we welcome design practitioners, manufacturers and researchers to give presentations. This puts you in touch with the lighting innovators, sharing the latest from industry and giving added depth to your studies through their practice.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  • Health, Comfort and Wellbeing in the Built Environment
  • Lighting Fundamentals
  • Lighting Innovation and Sustainability
  • Lighting Design Calculations
  • Lighting Controls Design
  • Integrated Lighting Design
  • MSc Light and Lighting Dissertation

Optional modules

  • Post Occupancy Evaluation
  • Systems Thinking and System Dynamics
  • Designing Inclusive Places
  • Circular Economy in the Built Environment
  • Machine Learning in Smart Buildings
  •  Aesthetics and Creative Lighting

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