Allied Health Professions

Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education

MA Integrative Arts Psychotherapy

MA at Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, based in London. It is HCPC-approved, so completing it makes you eligible to apply for registration and work as a art therapist anywhere in the UK. There is no UCAS code recorded, so this is normally a direct application to the university.

MSc pre-regHCPC approved

Course facts

Award
MA
Route
Pre-registration master’s
Study modes
part-time
Campus
London
Where
London, England
Regulator
HCPC — approved

Everything above is taken from the published record for this programme. Rows that are absent are absent from the source data, not omitted for brevity.

Entry requirements

Outcomes

Where the national surveys publish figures for this course, they appear here. Small cohorts are routinely suppressed in the official releases, which is why a tile can read "not published" for a course that is running perfectly well.

Not published Student satisfaction No National Student Survey result published for this course
Not published Continuation No continuation rate published for this course
Not published In work or further study No graduate outcomes published for this course
Not published Median earnings, 5 years on No LEO earnings figure published for this course

Outcome figures are worth less on this kind of course than on most. Pre-registration programmes feed a regulated profession with a national pay scale, so a graduate from any approved course starts on the same band as a graduate from any other. Earnings differences between providers mostly reflect where graduates end up living and whether they take NHS or private work, not the quality of the teaching. As a reference point, a newly qualified art therapist in England starts on NHS band 6, which begins at £39,959 in 2026/27. See the full pay picture.

Paying for it

Full-time pre-registration study in England is normally funded through a tuition fee loan and a maintenance loan from the student finance body for the nation you study in, topped up by whatever health-specific support that nation runs. Allied health students are treated more generously than most because placements make part-time work hard to sustain.

The dataset does not record whether this course qualifies for the NHS Learning Support Fund. Check the fund's own eligibility list rather than assuming either way.

  • Postgraduate Master's Loan (England) — The Postgraduate Master's Loan is a single contribution towards fees and living costs for a standalone master's degree, paid direct to the student. It is deliberately not the route for most pre-registration AHP master's courses in England: GOV.UK excludes anyone starting a full-time postgraduate pre-registration healthcare course on or after 1 August 2018. It matters mainly for AHP master's courses that sit outside the designated pre-registration list.

All funding and bursaries · rules change every academic year, so check the current terms before you apply.

How this course compares

There are 10 other approved art therapist courses in the UK, 7 of them in England, and 3 within London. Because every one of them leads to the same registration, the differences that actually matter are practical: how long the course runs, whether the award is a bachelor's or a master's, where the placements are and what the university asks for at entry.

Other art therapist courses in England
University Course Award Length UCAS Where
Brunel University London Art Psychotherapy MA MA 2 years Direct Uxbridge
Goldsmiths, University of London MA Art Psychotherapy MA 2 years Direct London
University of Roehampton MA Art Psychotherapy MA 2 years Direct London
Sheffield Hallam University MA Art Psychotherapy Practice MA 2 years Direct Sheffield
University of Chester Art Therapy MA MA 2 years Direct Chester
University of Derby Art Therapy MA MA 2 years Direct Derby
University of Hertfordshire MA Art Therapy MA Not published Direct Hatfield

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