18 Programs.
One Community.

Graphic design requires active thinking and making. Our dedicated faculty, vibrant curriculum, and well-equipped studio environment help MFA designers build deep formal skills, nimble thinking strategies, and rich professional portfolios.

The M.F.A. in Illustration Practice has at its core a philosophy of necessary reexamination and reinvention, both in your work and thinking and in the paradigm of what it means to be an illustrator.

The first M.F.A. of its kind in the country, MICA's M.F.A. in Curatorial Practice prepares students to expand the role of curators—engaging audiences more effectively by proposing alternative models of exhibition-making, institution-building, and social justice through art.

The LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting is one of the only graduate programs in the country to focus solely on painting, giving a select group of highly motivated painters the opportunity to find their individual voices within a supportive community.

Photography + Media & Society @ MICA is a vibrant Master of Fine Arts program where mature, self-motivated candidates for the degree explore photography and media as an interdisciplinary medium informed by the liberal and visual arts and the record of the human story.

The M.F.A. in Community Arts program prepares artists to use their artmaking as a means of civic, youth, and community development, activism, education and more.

The MFA in Filmmaking prepares the next generation filmmaker to enter a field that is expanding beyond Los Angeles and New York and to sustain a practice through participation in the international film community.

Mount Royal School of Art is a multidisciplinary MFA program that supports student artists in developing an intensive, critical, and imaginative art practice – in an exciting and diverse community enriched by a broad selection of established artists, museum curators, and collectors.

Rinehart School of Sculpture: research on spatial constructions with an emphasis on architectural, environmental, and sustainable practices.

MICA's M.F.A. in Studio Art Low-Residency (MFAST) program is designed for experienced artists, teachers, and other art professionals who want to pursue graduate study without disrupting their ongoing careers.