Education

Konstfack is Sweden’s largest university for arts, crafts and design. Since 1844, we have educated a diverse range of professionals within these fields as well as art and sloyd teachers. We conduct both artistic and scientific education/research, and currently have 900 students and 200 employees.

Camille Barrington-Wood, "Perpetual Twilight", master´s programme CRAFT! Jewellery and Corpus, 2023. Photo: Gustav Karlsson Frost.


Master's Degree programmes, 120 credits

Application deadline 15 January 2024

Konstfack's Master's programmes offer challenges! Our two-year Master's programmes offer preparation for careers or research and lead to the award of a Master's (120 credits) degree.

CRAFT!
The master's programme in CRAFT! is a cooperation between the three subjects Ceramic and Glass, Textiles and Jewellery and Corpus at Konstfack. The programme perceives the making of crafts as a relevant method for questioning the current state of things.

Master's programme in Spatial design
The Master's programme in Spatial design is intended to augment your capacity to work experimentally and reflectively and both formulate and approach problems in a critical and artistic way through individual in-depth studies and personal development in the fields of interior architecture and furniture design.

Master's programme in Design Ecologies
At our programme, we see Design Ecologies as the sum of the relationships enabled through design. We educate design practitioners to complement living systems and affirm social and biological diversity.

Fine Art
An individualised Master's programme in fine art with a focus on strong self-reflection as well as development and intensification of your artistic project.

Visual Communication
A norm creative Master's programme in visual communication with a focus on your own work in graphic design and/or illustration.

 

Bachelor's Degree programmes, 180 credits

In the three-year Undergraduate Level (for the Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts) you can choose between seven different programmes.

 

Teacher Education, 270-300 credits

Acquire a qualification to teach in either secondary (two subjects in grades 7–9) school or upper-secondary (two subjects) school.

 

Freestanding courses

Konstfack offers courses for professionals. All tuition is in Swedish, except for the courses listed on the link above which are taught in English only.

 

Doctoral Education, 240 credits

Since 2023, Konstfack has been conducting education at doctoral level in the subject of Artistic Practice in Visual, Applied and Spatial Arts.

The doctoral education is based upon the foundation of artistic practice established in Konstfack’s main fields of study: fine art, craft, design and visual communication. The education leads to a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Artistic Practice in Visual, Applied and Spatial Arts.