> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # MFA, MA, and PhD Programs to Apply for by Early 2025 - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/graduate-art-programs-2025/ - Published: 2024-11-26T22:21:56.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:12:14.000Z - Description: Organized by geographic region, a list of arts-related graduate programs to explore and apply to before deadlines close. - Author: Hyperallergic - Tags: Announcement, Art Education Announcements, Sponsored, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:36 (2023, 2024, part 2) ## Northeastern United States [**Bard Graduate Center**](https://hyperallergic.com/bard-graduate-center-nyc-explore-material-culture-design-history-decorative-arts/) 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**](https://hyperallergic.com/ccs-bard-graduate-program-curatorial-studies-transformative-education/) CCS Bard's 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**](https://hyperallergic.com/columbia-university-mfa-open-studios-information-sessions-2024/) 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**](https://hyperallergic.com/cornell-department-of-art-2024-bfa-mfa-information-sessions/) 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**](https://hyperallergic.com/dartmouth-mfa-sonic-practice-fall-2025-applications/) 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**](https://meca.edu/academics/mfa/?ref=hyperallergic.com) 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**](https://hyperallergic.com/refining-the-approach-mfa-in-studio-arts-massart-apply-2025/) With concentrations in Painting, Printmaking, and Sculpture, MassArt’s new MFA in Studio Arts fosters cross-pollination across studio disciplines while maintaining depth in chosen media concentrations. [**New York Studio School**](https://hyperallergic.com/forge-a-lifelong-art-practice-with-new-york-studio-schools-mfa-and-certificate/) Develop your work and aesthetic philosophy through NYSS’s MFA and Certificate programs. Classes are bolstered by Evening Lecture Series, technical workshops, one-on-one faculty guidance, group critiques, visiting artists, and faculty-guided trips. [**Purchase College**](https://hyperallergic.com/purchase-college-affordable-quality-arts-education/) Graduate students have access to generous financial support and paid teaching opportunities, state-of-the-art facilities, and New York City’s vibrant art scene. [**SVA MA Curatorial Practice**](https://hyperallergic.com/sva-ma-curatorial-practice-professional-training/) The School of Visual Arts’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. [**SVA MFA Art Practice**](https://hyperallergic.com/978928/sva-low-residency-interdisciplinary-mfa-art-practice-2025/) The low-residency MFA AP program at the School of Visual Arts redefines artmaking through a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach that welcomes non-traditional applicants. [**SUNY New Paltz**](https://hyperallergic.com/suny-new-paltz-mfa-studio-art-2025/) 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 Albany**](https://hyperallergic.com/university-at-albany-suny-tuition-waivers-funding-mfa-students/) The affordable, interdisciplinary MFA program seeks to broaden and deepen students’ understanding of contemporary art to better develop their studio preoccupations. [**University at Buffalo**](https://hyperallergic.com/fully-funded-mfa-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**](https://hyperallergic.com/meet-uconn-mfa-studio-art-class-2027/) 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**](https://hyperallergic.com/intermedia-digital-arts-mfa-at-the-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**](https://hyperallergic.com/georgia-state-university-mfa-in-studio-art-mat-in-art-education/) 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**](https://hyperallergic.com/texas-am-visualization-graduate-programs-merge-art-technology/) 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. [**Texas Christian University**](https://hyperallergic.com/tcu-school-of-art-ma-art-history-fully-funded/) All admitted Art History graduate students at TCU receive a full tuition waiver, a stipend, health insurance, and additional funds for research travel. [**Tulane University**](https://hyperallergic.com/study-intersection-art-africana-studies-crossroads-cohort-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 Arkansas**](https://hyperallergic.com/university-of-arkansas-tuition-free-graduate-opportunities/) Students in Art Education, Art History, Graphic Design, and Studio Art have access to additional support through graduate assistantships, fellowships, and research and travel grants. [**University of Texas at Austin**](https://hyperallergic.com/university-of-texas-at-austin-studio-art-mfa-program-fall-2025-applications/) 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**](https://hyperallergic.com/shape-future-of-visual-material-culture-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**](https://hyperallergic.com/explore-graduate-study-saic-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. [**University of Notre Dame**](https://hyperallergic.com/982263/university-of-notre-dame-offers-fully-funded-mfa-with-generous-stipend/) With concentrations in Studio Art (Painting/Drawing, Photography, Ceramics, Sculpture) and Design (Industrial Design, Visual Communication Design), the MFA program offers full tuition waivers and a generous stipend to all admitted students. [**Washington University in St. Louis**](https://hyperallergic.com/transform-your-practice-washington-university-mfa-visual-art/) 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**](https://go.csun.edu/MDI?ref=hyperallergic.com) The Master of Design and Innovation program at CSUN is flexible, online, and offers a tailored curriculum with hands-on job experience. [**Institute of American Indian Arts**](https://hyperallergic.com/institute-of-american-indian-arts-unique-low-residency-mfa-studio-arts-2025/) Low-residency Studio Arts MFA students at IAIA enjoy mentorships with prominent Indigenous artists, flexible schedules, and a broad perspective on Indigenous arts. [**Pacific Northwest College of Art**](https://pnca.willamette.edu/academics/graduate/?ref=hyperallergic.com) PNCA offers distinctive graduate art and design education in the heart of Portland, Oregon, where students can advance their craft and career with an MFA or MA. [**University of California, Los Angeles**](https://hyperallergic.com/ucla-mfa-media-arts-applications-2025/) UCLA's three-year MFA in Media Arts offers a rigorous environment for bold experimentation, fostering critical thinking and art making within the context of media and technology. [**University of New Mexico**](https://hyperallergic.com/discover-your-path-in-arts-university-of-new-mexico-graduate-programs/) UNM’s graduate programs foster creativity and intellectual discourse, uniting studio artists, art historians, and educators to push boundaries and connect across disciplines. [**University of San Francisco**](https://hyperallergic.com/993201/univeristy-san-francisco-ma-museum-studies-program/) USF’s Museum Studies MA prepares students to lead artistic, cultural, and heritage organizations in today’s dynamic social landscape. --- ## Global [**Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts**](https://hyperallergic.com/idsva-students-travel-the-world-residencies-rome-tuscany-berlin/) 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. [**The American University of Paris**](https://hyperallergic.com/979896/american-university-paris-mfa-creative-writing-global-focus/) AUP is home to Europe’s only two-year interdisciplinary graduate program in creative writing, where students meet, read, and gain inspiration from writers, translators, and artists from across the globe. --- **Stay up-to-date with the latest from graduate school programs at** [**hyperallergic.com/tag/art-education-announcements**](https://hyperallergic.com/tag/art-education-announcements/)**.** *To feature an opportunity from your college or university on* Hyperallergic*, get in touch at* [*nectarads.com*](https://nectarads.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*