Northeastern United States
Bard Graduate Center
Emerging curators, researchers, educators, and museum professionals learn to ask new questions about the cultural history of the material world through the NYC institution’s MA and PhD programs.
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard)
This two-year graduate program in New York’s Hudson Valley offers intensive training in contemporary art history, exhibition practices, and theory since the 1960s, paired with hands-on experience in exhibition-making, work placements, and curatorial programming.
Columbia University
The Visual Arts + Sound Art Program offers students 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 practice across all mediums, while the new low-residency MFA in Image Text blends creative writing, contemporary visual media, and design for print and digital publication.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth’s MFA in Sonic Practice is a three-year, fully funded graduate program for artists, composers, and scholars working expansively with sound.
Maine College of Art & Design
The MFA program at MECA&D offers an interdisciplinary approach that encourages students to think across 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 fosters cross-pollination across studio disciplines while maintaining depth in chosen media concentrations.
School of Visual Arts
SVA’s New York-based, globally linked MA in Curatorial Practice provides 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 waives out-of-state tuition, and 90% of students benefit from paid assistantships, scholarships, or tuition waivers.
University at Buffalo
Full-tuition scholarships and fully funded teaching appointments are available for 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 broad range of art making, culminating with an exhibition in a Northeastern US gallery and an on-campus thesis exhibition.
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 funding is available.
Southern United States
Georgia State University
The Atlanta school offers graduate degrees in Ceramics, Drawing & 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 uniquely interdisciplinary graduate programs that merge 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 allows students to pursue graduate study at the intersection of Africana studies and art.
University of Texas at Austin
This funded, two-year program offers 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 Art
Ranked as one of the top graduate-only programs in fine art, architecture, and design in the US, Cranbrook is a place for students looking to leave their MFA program prepared to enter the industry or open their own studio practice immediately.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Encouraging interdisciplinary exploration across mediums, the top-ranked fine arts school 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 cohort 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 tailored curriculum with hands-on job experience.
Global
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
The truly nomadic IDSVA is ideal for working art professionals interested in pursuing a PhD without having to interrupt or abandon their teaching careers, art practice, or other professional responsibilities.
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