Managing Art and Cultural Heritage in Global Markets (Erasmus Mundus Joint Master)

Please check that you meet these entry requirements before you begin your application:

• UK – 2:1 Honours Degree
• EU & International – check country-specific GPA requirements

Your degree must be in a relevant subject area:

• History of Art
• History of collecting
• Art market and provenance studies
• History
• Social and Economic History
• Economics
• Business and Management
• Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies
• Conservation
• Archaeology
• Anthropology
• Classics
• Law

We may accept degrees in other subjects if you have relevant work experience.

You must submit your application form and all the supporting documents by the deadline. If your application is missing any information, we cannot accept it. The only exception is your degree certificate if you’re still studying for it when you apply.

You do not need to complete the application all at once. Once you start, you’ll have 42 days to fill in all the sections, upload your documents and submit. You may save and return to your application as many times as you need to.

You should submit your application in plenty of time. This will leave you time to check that everything has uploaded properly by the deadline.

Application forms

If you are applying for an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship complete the scholarship application:

• MAGMa 2024 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship application

If you plan to fund your studies yourself complete the self-funded applicants personal statement:

• MAGMa 2024 Self-funded applicants Personal Statement

Both application forms ask you to tell us about: 

• your motivation for choosing the MAGMa programme
• your suitability for the programme
• an outline of your research interests and placement or practice aims

You can download the forms as Word documents. Once you’ve completed your form, please upload it to your application as a PDF. 

Supporting documents

You must include these documents with your application.

1. Your academic transcripts. If not in English, the transcripts must be in the original language and you must also supply official English translations if needed. The transcripts should show the full details of the subjects you studied and the grades you got.
2. Any degree certificates you already have. If not in English, the degree certificate must be in the original language and you must also supply an official English translation if needed.
3. Your current CV in any format.
4. Two references - see below for imporant notes about references.
5. If English is not your first language, English test results confirming the required level.
6. A copy of your passport photo page (to confirm your fee status and English language requirement) 

Degree certificates

If you have both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, you may upload both. If not in English, the degree certificate(s) must be in the original language and you must also supply official English translation(s) if needed.

If you’re in the final year of your degree and do not have your certificate yet, we can use your latest academic transcript to consider your application. If we make you an offer, this will be conditional until you send us your degree certificate.

You’ll only be able to enrol on the programme once we have all your documents and you’ve accepted an unconditional offer from us.

References

You must submit 2 references with your application. At least one of these must be an academic reference. The other can be an academic or a professional reference.

Your references must be:

• dated within the last 2 years
• on official headed paper, or with an official stamp
• signed, either digitally or by hand – we cannot accept a typed name as a signature

If your referee wants their reference to remain confidential, they can email it as a Word doc, conforming to all 3 of the above requirements, to erasmusreferences@glasgow.ac.uk. They should mention your name in the subject line of the email. 

The email must come from their professional email account. We cannot accept references from personal email addresses, such as Gmail or Hotmail. We also cannot contact referees on your behalf.

Further information

Check our Frequently Asked Questions for more information about submitting your documents.

When you’re ready to begin your application, select Apply now to go to the online application portal.

When you fill in your application, pay extra attention to these fields.

• Name and date of birth: Must appear exactly as they do on your passport. Please take time to check the spelling and layout.

• Contact Details: Your correspondence address. 

• Choice of Programme: Select 'Managing Art and Cultural Heritage in Global Markets'. 

• Proposed date of entry: This will be September 2024. 

• Education and Qualifications: Please complete this section as fully as possible. Include any relevant higher education qualifications, starting with the most recent. Make sure the name of the institution matches what is on your degree certificate or transcript.

• English Language Proficiency: Enter the date of the English language test you’ve taken, as well as the date of your result. If you’ve not taken the test yet, enter the date you’ve booked it for and your expected result date. Remember that you’ll need to upload your test certificate by the application deadline if you’re applying for a scholarship.

• Employment and Experience: Please complete this section as fully as possible. Include all employment and experience that is relevant to your MAGMa application. You can tell us more about these in your personal statement.  

If you have any difficulties with the online application, check our Application Troubleshooting and FAQs for help.

If your first language is not English, you must meet the University’s English Language requirements to study with us.

We accept a number of tests to confirm this. You’ll need to upload a certificate of your language proficiency as part of your application. 

International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic module (not General Training)

• Overall score 7.0
• No subtest less than 6.5
• You must have taken the test within 2 years and 5 months of your start date. You must have reached these overall and subtest scores on a single test.

TOEFL (ibt, mybest or athome)

• Overall score 94
• Reading 19, Listening 20, Speaking 20, Writing 24
• You must have taken the test within 2 years and 5 months of your start date. You must have reached these overall and subtest scores on a single test. This includes TOEFL mybest.

CPE (Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English) and CAE (Cambridge Advanced English)

• Overall score 185
• No subtest less than 176
• You must have taken the test within 2 years and 5 months of your start date. You must have reached these overall and subtest scores on a single test.

Pearsons PTE Academic

• Overall score 66
• Listening 59, Reading 60, Speaking 59, Writing 74
• You must have taken the test within 2 years and 5 months of your start date. You must have reached these overall and subtest scores on a single test.

Oxford English Test

• Oxford ELLT 8
• Reading and Listening: OIDI level no less than 7, with Reading 25-26 and Listening 18-19
• Writing and Speaking: OIDI level no less than 8

West African Examinations Council (WAEC) or National Examinations Council (NECO)

English Language in WAEC/NECO at C6 or better, plus a degree from any acceptable university in Nigeria or Ghana.

Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English

• Integrated Skills in English II & III & IV: ISEIII Pass with Pass in all subtests.
• You must have taken the test within 2 years and 5 months of your start date. You must have reached these overall and subtest scores on a single test.

Alternatives to English Language qualification

• A degree from a majority-English speaking country as defined by UKVI, including Canada if taught in English. You must have studied for at least 2 years at undergraduate level, or 9 months at master's level. You must have completed your degree in that majority-English speaking country within the last 6 years.
• Undergraduate 2+2 degree from a majority-English speaking country as defined by the UKVI, including Canada if taught in English. You must have completed your final 2 years study in that majority-English speaking country within the last 6 years.

The European Union co-funds the MAGMa programme through the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters programme (EMJM). It offers the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Scholarships for its EMJM programmes. 

If you want the MAGMa Consortium to consider you for a scholarship, you must submit your application by the scholarship deadline on 19 January. You must also upload all the required documents by this date, including your English test results if needed.

See Scholarships for full details.

MAGMa has received Erasmus Mundus individual needs funding from the EU. This is to support successful applicants with long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments.

Both scholarship and self-funded students can apply for this support. The total funding available over the 4 MAGMa editions (2023–2026) is 120,000 euros.

You can apply for support between 3,000 and 60,000 euros towards:

• adapting environments and technology
• services
• assistance by third persons
• additional travel and transport costs
• specialist technology

Allocating this funding is at the discretion of the University of Glasgow’s Inclusion Team. The amount you receive may not cover the full cost for your request, but it will cover a large part of it.

If you'd like to apply for individual needs support, please add a statement about this to your application. You should describe what adaptations, services or travel support you need to study on MAGMa.

You must also submit a statement from a professional confirming your needs. For example, this may come from your:

• consultant
• doctor
• psychiatrist
• optician
• audiologist

You can find more information about individual needs support in the ERASMUS+ programme guide (pages 250–251).

Erasmus Mundus Scholarship applications 

Applications for entry in 2024 closed on 19 January 2024.

If you’re applying for a scholarship, you must complete your application and upload all supporting documents by this date. If your application is incomplete at the deadline, we cannot consider you for a scholarship. 

Once the scholarship applications have closed, we’ll send all eligible applications to the MAGMa Consortium for review. They’ll announce their decisions in April 2024.

Self-funded applications

For International students, applications close 22 July 2024.

For UK and EU students, applications close 16 August 2024.

After the scholarship deadline has passed, we’ll assess any further self-funded applications as they come in. There is a limited number of places on this programme. Once we have filled them all, we’ll close the application process and will not make any more offers.

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