Monash Arts is renowned for innovative, engaging and high quality research in the humanities and social sciences, and we are committed to providing graduate research education of the highest quality in a stimulating, supportive and professional environment.

By engaging with different cultural environments and communities around Australia and the world, we make deep connections that empower us to respond to the most pressing issues faced by society today. Whether you want to get ahead in your career faster or improve your knowledge, this Master of Arts by research degree can give you a distinct advantage, offering a huge range of research topic areas to choose from.

The Master of Arts will allow you to undertake substantial independent research on your chosen topic while supported by a minimum of two expert academic supervisors. Our Faculty of over 500 academics is committed to train internationally recognised scholars that are passionate about producing cutting edge research and keen to contribute to their fullest capacity to the betterment of society at large. A key strength of our research programs lies in their diversity. This is reflected in our academics who are some of the world’s most inspiring and distinguished researchers.

• a four-year Australian or New Zealand bachelor’s degree with an overall result of upper H2B (a mark of 65 or above) in an honours year (normally with a research component in the fourth year); or
• an Australian or New Zealand master’s preliminary qualification with a significant research component and with an overall result of a minimum upper H2B (a mark of 65 or above); or
• an Australian or New Zealand coursework master’s degree with a significant research component graded at upper H2B (a mark of 65 or above), and an overall result of upper H2B or above; or
• an Australian or New Zealand research master’s degree with an overall result of a minimum upper H2B (a mark of 65 or above); or
• qualifications or experience that GRC considers to be equivalent to, or a satisfactory substitute for, the above.

Extra requirement for specialisation in Creative Writing, Theatre Performance, Music Performance: https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/faqs-and-resources/masters/chapter-two/2-1