Combining the rigor of an independent art school with the resources of a larger university, Lesley Art + Design has nurtured the creativity and shaped the careers of artists and designers for 100+ years. With an experimental and interdisciplinary approach, the college emphasizes small class sizes, studio-intensive mentoring, and access to high-profile faculty and visiting artists. Explore our BFA, MFA, and pre-college programs.
Maine College of Art & Design is located in the heart of the Portland Arts District. Recognized as one of the top cities for artists in the country, Portland is filled with artists, designers, innovators, and entrepreneurs. MECA&D's campus provides well over 200,000 square feet of academic and studio space with 24/7 365 days a year studio access. Whether you want to exhibit and lecture about your work, teach the next generation of artists, or explore the elements of great storytelling,...
For nearly 185 years, top ranked Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) has assembled some the most talented students and faculty from across the nation and around the world in a creatively energized, intellectually stimulating, learning environment. At MICA, artists and designers are reflective visionaries, innovators, entrepreneurs and social activists. Students can uniquely customize their studies in support of creative exploration and career goals by combining a major and minor, adding...
Founded in 1873, MassArt has a unique legacy of leadership as the first freestanding, public college of art and design in the country, and the nation’s first art school to grant a degree. Our mission is both lofty and grounded: To prepare students from diverse backgrounds to become leaders in the creative economy, and for them to positively impact every society they join. Here is the place where you can grow into the artist, designer, or educator that you’ve always wanted to be — in our...
Graduate Studies builds on the esteemed legacy of Moore, offering graduate degree to people of all identities intent on working in the fields of art, art education, museums, academia, and disciplines and institutions that have yet to be created. While specific questions and methods focus each degree program, these objectives run throughout our work: Access & Social Justice, Education & Engagement, Direct Connections & Support, Professional Practices, Place Based Inquiry, and Public Programs. In...
Founded in 1916, New York School of Interior Design has been leading the study of interior design for over a century. A private, nonprofit college focused exclusively on interior design, NYSID offers certificate, undergraduate, and graduate programs for students at all stages of their careers—whether they’re just becoming familiar with the discipline, considering a career change, or looking to deepen knowledge in a particular area. Consistently ranked one of the top interior design programs...
Parsons School of Design is one of the leading institutions for art and design education in the world. Today Parsons is the only American art and design school within a comprehensive university — The New School — which also houses a rigorous liberal arts college and a progressive performing arts school. Guided by Parsons faculty, graduate students draw on the university's extensive resources to challenge convention and innovate, improving people's lives directly and preparing for an...
Founded in 1887, Pratt Institute is one of the world’s top ranked art, design, information and architecture schools with outstanding programs, most of which are ranked among the top ten and five in the United States. With more than 20 graduate programs, an award-winning faculty of practicing professional artists, designers, writers, architects and historians, an outstanding internship program, and a beautiful 25-acre tree-lined residential campus minutes from Manhattan, as well as a Manhattan...
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...
The Master of Fine Arts program at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University is a rigorous, interdisciplinary program rooted in contemporary art. Our students are committed to producing bodies of research through art-making, supported by a professional community of global artists and scholars.
As a graduate student at SMFA at Tufts you’ll join a community of working artists engaged in interdisciplinary research to create boundary and medium-pushing work designed to shape the...