Graduate study at RISD offers an immersive and inspiring opportunity to delve deeply into a chosen discipline and emerge with new perspectives to your creative practice. Each year 478 master’s degree candidates benefit from dynamic community of peers, diverse guest critics and close working relationships with faculty who are practicing artists, designers and scholars themselves. Equally as important, you'll learn about yourself, the way you think and how you move through new modes of reflection and creative discovery. You’ll have access to specialized facilities, along with opportunities to teach, research, exhibit, travel and collaborate. Graduates go on to make their mark as creative leaders in the arts, design and a wide range of other fields seeking the type of innovative thinking fostered at RISD.