Graduate Majors

Art—MFA

Refine your artistic potential with a Master of Fine Arts in Art from ArtCenter. Among a community of both developing and internationally recognized interdisciplinary artists, you’ll grow your technical abilities, creative capacity and connections across the globe. Here, your potential is our priority: we boast the highest faculty-to-student ratio of all comparable MFA programs, and the MFA in art is modeled based on your unique passions and studio experiences in film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, installation, performance or whatever medium drives your art. Join famous and infamous historians, philosophers, writers and creatives in the heart of art here in Los Angeles.

Brand Design and Strategy—MDes (online program)

Become a leader in brand marketing by turning idea-generating into decision-making. In today’s marketing landscape, storytelling is as vital as visual assets. Brands have personalities, dimensions and broad themes that inform how consumers absorb and invest in brand products. In the online Master of Design in Brand Design and Strategy program at ArtCenter, you will approach successful branding from the perspectives of graphic design, business and leadership. You will learn how to turn intriguing ideas into compelling stories within a competitive global market that craves outstanding brand design.

Film—MFA

Evoke critical thought and elicit unbounded emotion through the multifaceted art of film. With ArtCenter’s Master of Fine Arts in Film, you’ll gain tools to ask complex questions, tell compelling stories and push the boundaries of visual narratives—and to inspire future generations to do the same. Here in Los Angeles, top Hollywood talent and decision-makers equip you to excel in directing, screenwriting, cinematography, editing or producing. Our MFA in film attracts a community of diverse storytellers who collaborate with talented designers across ArtCenter’s many departments to redefine the existing media landscape.

Furniture, Lighting and Fixtures—MS

The contents of our environments shape how we interact with the areas where we live, work and play. In the ArtCenter Master of Science in Furniture, Lighting and Fixtures Design program, we approach these connections in object, space, place, body, function and application from a human-centered perspective that understands furniture and lighting design as integral to our experience of the world. You will study the manufacturing process, gain a deep understanding of industry standards and constantly strive for new innovations in our furniture and lighting design master’s program.

Graphic Design—MFA

Practicing graphic design is a process of creating change. In their pursuit of great ideas, our change-making students follow a simple path—they See, Do, and Lead.

ArtCenter’s MFA Graduate Graphic Design (MGx) program educates graphic designers who will lead the next global generation of our profession by influencing companies, communities and society at large and extending the boundaries of communication design.

Graduatate Industrial Design—MS

Learn to design the future with a strategic and systems-level approach.

ArtCenter’s “Grad ID” program offers a Master of Science curriculum combining the pursuit of extraordinary design and making skills with the knowledge, theories and methods that are essential for creating new value for enterprise and social innovation in a context of complex and unstructured challenges.

Interaction Design—MDes (online program)

The realms of user experience and user interaction (UX/UI) are at the forefront of today’s digital environments. ArtCenter’s Master of Design in Interaction Design degree prepares design practitioners and interaction designers who are inclusive, ethical and creative. Our human-centered design methodologies equip you with deep knowledge and holistic understanding of digital service, platform and product design, software UX/UI, prototyping, strategic innovation and creative technology development. With a master’s degree in interaction design, you will lead at the intersection of emerging technology, strategic digital systems, and service and product design.

Media Design Practices—MFA

Ours is a time of constant change: technological transformations, global tremors, and social and cultural connections. This world demands new design practices. Designers today must be daring, critical, and engaged in their communities. Are you ready?

ArtCenter’s Media Design Practices students are unafraid to use design to question the present. Join our MFA program and use your skills — prototyping and research, creative technology and fieldwork — to envision the future.

Spatial Experience Design—MS

The sensorial and experiential qualities of spatial design shape environments and cultivate targeted user experiences. With ArtCenter’s STEM-designated Master of Science in Spatial Experience Design degree (formerly the Master’s in Environmental Design), you will stretch conventional boundaries and transform the confines of style to consider links between the psychological, physical, emotional and sensory effects of creating space and place.

Transportation Systems and Design—MS

The future of transportation is defined by disruption. Traditional forms of movement are being replaced by more sustainable, more accessible, and more complex mobility solutions. In ArtCenter’s master’s in transportation systems and design program, you will join a community of creative leaders dedicated to transformation in diverse transportation disciplines, including automotive design, urban planning, public transit design, and much more.