Northeastern United States
Bard Graduation Center
Emerging curators, researchers, educators and museum professionals learn to ask new questions about the cultural history of the material world through the New York institute’s MA and PhD programs.
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard)
This two-year graduate program in New York’s Hudson Valley provides intensive training in contemporary art history, exhibition practices, and theory since the 1960s, combined with hands-on experience in exhibition making, internships, and curatorial programming.
Columbia University
The Visual Arts + Sound Art program provides students with many opportunities to expand the depth and complexity of their studio practice, as well as their ability to think critically in the context of contemporary art theory.
Cornell University
Cornell’s MFA in Creative Visual Arts focuses on studio practices across all media, while the new low-residency MFA in Image Text combines creative writing, contemporary visual media, and design for print and digital publishing.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth’s MFA in Sonic Practice is a three-year, fully funded graduate program for artists, composers and scientists who work extensively with sound.
Maine College of Art and Design
The MFA program at MECA&D offers an interdisciplinary approach that encourages students to think beyond traditional academic boundaries.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt)
With concentrations in painting, printmaking, and sculpture, the Boston School’s new MFA in Studio Arts promotes cross-pollination among studio disciplines while maintaining depth in its chosen media concentrations.
School of Visual Arts
SVA’s New York-based, globally connected MA in Curatorial Practice offers hands-on training with renowned faculty and experts in small case study seminars, writing workshops, and professional practice workshops.
SUNY New Paltz
All accepted out-of-state and international MFA students receive a scholarship that provides a waiver of out-of-state tuition, and 90% of students benefit from paid assistantships, fellowships, or tuition waivers.
University at Buffalo
Full-tuition scholarships and fully funded educational arrangements are available to students at this flagship R1-designated research university in New York State.
University of Connecticut
This fully funded three-year graduate program in southern New England supports a wide range of art production, culminating in a gallery exhibition in the Northeastern US and a thesis exhibition on campus.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The university’s MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA MFA) invites applications from interdisciplinary artists seeking to expand or reinvent their practice. Full financing is available.
Southern United States
Georgia State University
The Atlanta school offers graduate degrees in ceramics, drawing and painting, graphic design, interior design, photography, printmaking, sculpture, textiles and art education.
Texas A&M University
The MFA and MS in Visualization in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts are unique interdisciplinary graduate programs that bring together art and science, technical applications and creativity.
Tulane University
In fall 2025, the New Orleans school will launch the Crossroads Cohort, a new interdisciplinary program that will allow students to pursue graduate study at the intersection of Africana studies and the arts.
University of Texas at Austin
This funded, two-year program provides a multidisciplinary environment, driven by the individual interests of each cohort, utilizing UT’s extensive physical, technical and intellectual resources.
Midwestern United States
Cranbrook Academy of Arts
Ranked as one of the top graduate-only programs in fine arts, architecture and design in the US, Cranbrook is a place for students looking to leave their MFA program and be prepared to enter the industry or immediately start their own studio practice to open.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The top-ranked school of fine arts encourages interdisciplinary exploration through media and offers MFA, MA, MArch, MDes, MS and Low-Residency MFA degrees, including a new MFA in Comics.
Washington University in St. Louis
Join a small group of renegade makers and thinkers in this two-year, fully residential program at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts in St. Louis, Missouri.
Western United States
California State University, Northridge
The Master of Design and Innovation program at CSUN is flexible, online and offers a customized curriculum with practical work experience.
Global
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
The truly nomadic IDSVA is ideal for working arts professionals who are interested in pursuing a PhD without having to pause or give up their teaching careers, art practice, or other professional responsibilities.
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