Birmingham City University

Birmingham City University is a public university in Birmingham, England, with roots in the Birmingham Government School of Design of 1843 and in later colleges of music, technology, and education. It held polytechnic status, became the University of Central England in 1992, and took its present name in 2007. It is a multi-campus city university with a vocational and creative character, spread across City Centre sites, a South campus in Edgbaston, and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Faculties cover arts, design and media; business, law and social sciences; health, education and life sciences; and computing, engineering and the built environment. The Birmingham School of Art on Margaret Street and the Conservatoire are the named schools graduate applicants in those fields meet first. STEAMhouse and health simulation suites support practice-based master's work in design, computing, and nursing.

Enrollment is about 30,000 students, including a large taught-postgraduate group and thousands of international students. Academic staff number in the thousands. Alumni include comedian Frank Skinner, singer Laura Mvula, and fashion designer Helen Storey.

Graduate degrees are mainly taught master's and professional awards in art, music, media, education, health, and the built environment, with research degrees in the same faculties. Teaching mixes studio, conservatoire rehearsal, placement, and seminars. The year follows the UK semester pattern. Funding is typically a mix of university scholarships and professional sponsorship. Students use Birmingham's city-center campuses and the Conservatoire concert halls as daily workplaces.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Birmingham City University lists 2 graduate programs in environmental design, all of them master's programs.