MFA Design at University of Texas at Austin

Programme overview

Through advanced studio courses in design, elective courses in related fields, anddesign history/theory/criticism courses, the curricula of the graduate programs indesign encourage students to take full advantage of the programs' location within atop-tier research university. Rather than offering traditional medium-basedspecializations in communication design, interaction design, or industrial design, theprograms instead encourage students to integrate knowledge and modes of inquiryfrom other disciplines into their design practice, and to develop mastery in a rangeof image-making, typographic, modeling, prototyping, and/or coding skills mostappropriate to their own area of investigation.

Faculty: College of Fine Arts | Duration: 60 semester credit hours | Study mode: full-time | Location: Austin, TX, United States

What you will study

The programme requires 60 semester credit hours. Up to nine hours of upper-division undergraduate coursework in any subject may, with the approval of the graduate advisor, be counted toward the degree.

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Application information

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Graduate entry terms are summer and fall; each graduate program sets its own application deadline.

Graduate application fees: $65 for U.S. graduate applicants and $90 for international graduate applicants; MBA (and dual programs with MBA) $200; MPA $125. Each graduate program sets its own application deadline. Fee waivers are available only to U.S. citizens/permanent residents applying for a first graduate degree (not MBA or MPA).

Apply through the official page: https://gradschool.utexas.edu/admissions/apply

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