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24 Master's degrees offered by the university
Visual and Critical Studies
The Master of Arts (MA) in Visual and Critical Studies program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is designed for students interested in the scholarly and creative investigation of the production, dissemination, and impact of visual images, objects, experiences, and practices.
Art and Technology Studies
The Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a place to explore, critique, and imagine the potentials of artistic production with technology, sound, or their unlimited hybrid forms through focused study and interdisciplinary exploration.
Interior Architecture
Students in the Interior Architecture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an Emphasis in Interior Architecture program gain all the expertise necessary for the practice of architecture, while developing the sensibilities specific to the growing field of Interior Architecture.
Film, Video, New Media and Animation
Drawing on the expertise of School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty and our innovative curriculum, Film, Video, New Media and Animation) students engage in formal experimentation, technical innovation, and critical investigation in all forms of media-based work.
Design for Emerging Technologies
The MFA in Design for Emerging Technologies program from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago supports advanced work in architecture and its related fields that calls upon a broad range of art and design disciplines to challenge how architecture is defined and practiced.
Low-Residency
The Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts (Low-Res MFA) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago program is designed for the 21st-century artist whose work and life demands both a rigorous engagement with an artistic community as well as flexibility, fluidity, and a self-directed approach.
Photography
The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio Photography program from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, widely considered one of the strongest in the country, is continually reinterpreting social and visual culture through both traditional and experimental forms of image making.
Ceramics
Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago provides the material, skills, and processes traditional to the medium, but emboldens our students to subvert the ordinary.
New Arts Journalism
The Master of Arts (MA) in New Arts Journalism at School of the Art Institute of Chicago is designed to provide students with the necessary skills and experiences to write about the arts for diverse audiences.
Designed Objects
The Designed Objects from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a professional degree program with a structured curriculum that offers students the critical skills to imagine and create meaningful design objects, systems, and experiences while challenging the boundaries of the field of design itself.
Fiber and Material Studies
Born from textile traditions, the Fiber and Material Studies department at School of the Art Institute of Chicago encourages students to think both about and through materials, investigating technique and expanding the use of the medium.
Designed Objects
The MFA in Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Designed Objects program studios have no boundaries. We are creative across disciplines and we are engaged with our community at SAIC, our context in Chicago, and the world.
Art Therapy and Counseling
Art Therapy and Counseling from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the oldest professional Art Therapy programs in the Midwest.
Sculpture
Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago encourages students to create fluidly, from casting bronze to organizing public spectacles, from growing food to fabricating via high-tech digital machinery.
Architecture
The MFA in Studio, Architecture program from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago supports advanced work in architecture and its related fields that calls upon a broad range of art and design disciplines to challenge how architecture is defined and practiced.
Art Education
Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago prepares artists, educators, designers, curators, teachers, organizers, activists and other professionals seeking to be creative agents of change within a wide variety of cultural and educational contexts.
Fashion, Body and Garment
School of the Art Institute of Chicago groundbreaking Master of Design (MDes) in Fashion, Body and Garment seeks to provide a creative and intellectual context in which the nature and potentiality of fashion is closely examined and reimagined.
Sound
One of the few programs in the country to consider sound outside a strictly musical context, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Sound program pushes students to extend and explore the medium, considering its experimental, aesthetic, critical, and conceptual dimensions.
Painting and Drawing
With an emphasis on studio production, critical discussion, and experimentation, the MFA in Painting and Drawing program at School of the Art Institute of Chicago reflects and reinforces the diversity of approaches that propel artmaking today and for the future.
Modern and Contemporary Art History
The Master of Arts (MA) in Modern and Contemporary Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a two-year, 36-credit masters program specializing in modern and contemporary art in its international contexts.