Fantastic news! After achieving our best ever National Student Survey results, we've been ranked 7th in England for student satisfaction by The Times. As well as ranking 11th overall in the UK 🙌
Find out more at the link in our bio🔗
#McrMetProud
There's still time to feature your Degree Show project 🎉
In the lead up to Degree Show 2026 we'll be profiling students from across @mcrschart@mcrfashioninstitute@themsarch & @schoolofdigitalarts as well as offering students the chance to interview one another to encourage a sharing of creative ideas and allow the chance for you to play an active role in the promoting your own show.
If you'd like to find out more & apply to get involved follow the link in our bio and fill out the 'Feature My Project' form 🔗
Two of our alumni are currently showing new work at @homemcr
Nicola Ellis presents 'Exercises in Knowing', while Gabriel Kidd presents 'I found the giant and he was dead.'
Installed as a double solo presentation, the exhibitions bring together two very different approaches to making, with shared concerns around material, process and the body.
On at HOME until 17 May.
Find out more via the link in bio.
Exhibition photography by Michael Pollard.
Two @mcrschart students have been selected by the @britishcouncil to take part in the 2026 Venice Fellowships 👏
@emmamitchison_ (BA Product Design and Craft) & Mina Kyoleyan (MA Contemporary Curating) will be part of sixty Venice Fellows who will represent the UK at the British Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition whilst developing their own creative and research projects during a one-month residency experience in Venice.
You can read more about the fellowships and hear directly from Emma Mitchison about her practice via the link in our bio 🔗
Photo credit: Emma Mitchison glasswork
Good luck to everyone taking on the @manchestermarathon this weekend.
For those who make it to the finish line, this is what’s waiting for you.
This year’s official finisher T-shirt has been designed by our Graphic Design student Faris Owynat.
Born and raised in the city, Faris has brought Manchester’s culture, creativity and grit into the design, weaving the marathon route into the logo alongside subtle nods to the city, including a hidden bee pattern formed through blue and red lines.
As Faris puts it, “Finishing a marathon takes so much effort, and I wanted the T-shirt to feel like a proper reward.”
Do you want to showcase your Degree Show project on our socials?
In the lead up to Degree Show 2026 we'll be profiling students from across @mcrschart@mcrfashioninstitute@themsarch & @schoolofdigitalarts as well as offering students the chance to interview one another to encourage a sharing of creative ideas and allow the chance for you to play an active role in the promoting your own show.
If you'd like to find out more & apply to get involved follow the link in our bio and fill out the 'Feature My Project' form 🔗
This week, Manchester Fashion Institute and Manchester School of Art have had the honour of hosting guest academics from the prestigious National Institute of Fashion and Textiles (NIFT) in India.
Together, they delivered four curated masterclasses across four days that have provided an immersive experience of India’s diverse natural fibres and rich textile traditions. On behalf of our staff and students, thank you to @n.i.f.t for sharing valuable knowledge and strengthening our cultural exchange and collaboration.
Our students have contributed to Won’t Sit Still, a new exhibition at @mcrartgallery
Working on a live brief, our second year Fine Art and Fine Art and Art History students explored the gallery’s furniture collection, developing new responses that now feature in the exhibition.
The project began in 2024 and gave students the experience of delivering their first public commission in a major civic gallery, with their work now part of a longer public display.
Read more via the link in bio.
These images are from the 2024 student exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery. Photography by Sarah Randles.
We’re pleased to share that we’ve once again been ranked among the top 100 institutions in the world for Art and Design in the QS World Rankings 2026.
Maintaining this position reflects the creativity, ambition and dedication of our students, staff and alumni, seen here in work from our 2025 Degree Show.
We’re also proud to be part of a wider set of strong results across @manmetuni including Architecture ranked 5th in the world, alongside achievements across Sport, English, Environmental Sciences and more.
Manchester School of Art Degree Show returns this June.
Across art, design, fashion, architecture, media, and performance, more than 1,000 graduating students will present work across Manchester Met’s creative campus, with exhibitions open to the public.
More To Come, developed by 2017 Graphic Design graduate Isobel Platt, sets this as a starting point, as our graduates go on to shape the practices, studios and industries around them.
Each year, our Degree Show fills the campus with new work for you to discover.
Open 6–19 June
Private view: Friday 5 June, 5–8pm
Find out more via the link in our bio
Unit X Open Studios
Thursday 19 March, 4–7pm
Lowry Building, Manchester School of Art
Join us this Thursday for Unit X Open Studios, a celebration of ambitious, collaborative practice across Manchester School of Art.
Unit X brings together students from our Design programmes to design, experiment and develop creative projects in partnership with organisations in Manchester and beyond.
Working on live briefs and collaborative commissions, students test ideas, explore new approaches and respond to real world contexts.
The exhibition presents projects from BA Year 1 and Year 2 students developed through Unit X. Highlights include Youth State, an experimental civic project exploring how young people might govern differently through ministries, departments and collective decision making.
Open Studios is a chance to see the work developed through these collaborations. Everyone is welcome.
Find out more. Link in bio.
PhD student / Fine Art Lecturer @alanalake.studio and MFA graduate @deeqa_deeqa_deeqa have come together to collaborate on a new exhibition at @castlefieldgall 🎉
The exhibition, titled 'Broken Ecologies', reflects on power, protest, memory, and survival through large-scale print works, film and sculpture. 'Broken Ecologies' will fully open on March 15th with a slow preview taking place on March 14th.
Follow the link in our bio to find out more about the exhibition, hear from Deeqa & Alana and book your tickets to the preview 🔗
Artwork credit: What Survives Between Us (2026) - Deeqa Ismail
