Master of Design

The Master of Design is offered through UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA), which includes the School of Art & Design among its schools, and covers study areas across Built Environment, Humanities and Social Sciences, Education, Design, Media and Fine Arts.

UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture has 9 subjects ranked top 5 in Australia according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026, and is ranked #33 in the world for Architecture and Built Environment.

Students at UNSW ADA thrive in an open, supportive and inclusive community that encourages and celebrates difference, with access to creative spaces, peer mentoring, the ADA Innovation Hub, Work Integrated Learning, and support services through The Nucleus: Student Hub.

Yes, UNSW ADA has launched the ADA Skills Passport, a new initiative that helps students identify and showcase the skills they build through their studies — the human strengths employers are looking for — which students can track and demonstrate on a digital passport.

UNSW Sydney's campuses relevant to Arts, Design & Architecture are the Kensington and Paddington campuses, both of which are built on Aboriginal Lands of the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.