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MA On-Campus Full-time 1 find out £12000 per year £20250 per year

About Costume Design and Making, MA - at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA)

Our course provides you with a holistic postgraduate experience that enables you to become a versatile and creative costume maker with advanced design interpretation and technical construction skills.

You enhance your skills through our range of taught modules and then apply these to practical projects and performances, while identifying professional frameworks for collaboration, research and employment. By the end of the course, you graduate as a skilled, resourceful costume maker and researcher with a strong portfolio of practice and credits from fully realised productions.


Entry requirements

Contact The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) to find course entry requirements.


Why study at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA)

1. LIPA is for those who perform and make performance possible:

  • School of Creative Technologies, Design & Enterprise
  • School of Music
  • School of Performance

2. 92% of graduates are in work or further study (Graduate Outcomes survey published in 2024).

3. 7,450+ alumni across 79 countries

4. LIPA has been listed as one of Billboard's Top Music Business Schools for a fourth consecutive time (2024).