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I'll be moving to London from New York in September to begin a two-year MA in Fine Art at UCL. After researching housing costs there, it's become apparent that I will definitely be needing to have flatmates. I realize that this gesture is very premature, but I thought that I would post before the gradcafe readership drops off after everyone has decided where they'll be attending. While doing my Master's, I think I'd really rather live with other people immersed in graduate studies; if they be in art/architecture- history, theory, or practice- then all the better! I would like to try to pay between 500 and 700 pounds a month- the lower, the better. I don't have strong neighborhood preferences as long as it is not too far from school. (Bethnal Green had occured to me as it's slightly less central but still convenient, and largely populated by young contemporary galleries.) In any event, if anyone on this board will also be relocating to London in the fall, and would be interested in a flatshare, please post or PM! Good luck to all sorting out loans, jobs and housing...

I'll be moving to London from New York in September to begin a two-year MA in Fine Art at the Slade (UCL). After researching housing costs there, it's become apparent that I will definitely be needing to have flatmates. I realize that this gesture is very premature, but I thought that I would post before the gradcafe readership drops off after everyone has decided where they'll be attending. While doing my Master's, I think I'd really rather live with other people immersed in graduate studies; if they be in art/architecture- history, theory, practice or business- then all the better! I would like to try to pay between 500 and 700 pounds a month- the lower, the better. I don't have strong neighborhood preferences as long as it is not too far from school. (Bethnal Green had occured to me as it's slightly less central but still convenient, and largely populated by young contemporary galleries.) In any event, if anyone on this board will also be relocating to London in the fall, and would be interested in a flatshare, please post or PM! Good luck to all sorting out loans, jobs and housing...

I'll be moving to London from New York in September to begin a two-year MA in Fine Art at the Slade (UCL). After researching housing costs there, it's become apparent that I will definitely be needing to have flatmates. I realize that this gesture is very premature, but I thought that I would post before the gradcafe readership drops off after everyone has decided where they'll be attending. While doing my Master's, I think I'd really rather live with other people immersed in graduate studies; if they be in art/architecture- history, theory, practice or business- then all the better! I would like to try to pay between 500 and 700 pounds a month- the lower, the better. I don't have strong neighborhood preferences as long as it is not too far from school. (Bethnal Green had occured to me as it's slightly less central but still convenient, and largely populated by young contemporary galleries.) In any event, if anyone on this board will also be relocating to London in the fall, and would be interested in a flatshare, please post or PM! Good luck to all sorting out loans, jobs and housing...

I got into the Slade too! Are you going to go? I applied to do the MA in sculpture.

After researching grad schools in London, I ended up only seriously considering the Slade, RCA, and Goldsmiths. Eventually I decided- of these three- to apply only to the Slade. A few factors that were important to me in making my decision were: - RCA and the Slade are more centrally located in London than Goldsmiths. (Goldsmiths is kind of comparable to Pratt in terms of location, I'd say, for those familiar with New York.) - RCA has beautiful exhibition spaces where their thesis shows are installed every year. Really gorgeous spaces. - At RCA, it is only possible to study art, design, their histories and curation. And only at the post-graduate level. (I can imagine this would be attractive for a lot of people, but for various reasons I cared about being in a program within a broader academic setting.) - The programs at Goldsmiths and the Slade are both seated within a larger academic institution... Goldsmiths is definitely very well respected for their art department, but from what I've gleaned, their academic departments seem not to be as highly regarded... The Slade is part of UCL (University College London), which is generally accepted to be one of the best universities in England. - Goldsmiths awards only an MFA, and not an MA in fine art. - At RCA, everyone must do an MA in fine art. MFA isn't offered. - The Slade offers the option of doing either MA or MFA. (I preferred this as I want to do an MA, and I felt that the History/Theory classes would benefit by being filled with students who had specifically chosen to dedicate that extra time and work outside of the studio.) - On the Slade's website, I was able to read the biographies of professors, and I saw that there was a lot of overlap in terms of my own interests and theirs.