Montserrat College of Art is a small, private, residential, undergraduate college of 200 students located in historic, coastal Beverly, MA, 30 minutes from downtown Boston. Montserrat’s personalized education is focused on developing each student’s individual creative vision, and helping them acquire expertise in the tools to express it. Students build strong critical thinking, communication, critique, and creative problem-solving skills - all core leadership competencies. Employing design thinking, this process prepares students for success in the booming creative economy of today and the jobs of the future. A variety of concentrations and minors are offered in the Studio Arts and Visual Communications and Design, with an emphasis on Interdisciplinary approaches. In our innovative Work Program, all students work five hours a week on campus and complete an off-campus job or internship. Before graduation, all students also create a thesis project/exhibition evaluated by experts in the field. Montserrat College of Art is "Where Creativity Works."