First-rate facilities, renowned faculty, an impressive roster of exhibitions, lectures and presentations, and its location in the culturally rich city of Boston – all these have placed Massachusetts College of Art among the nation’s top-ranked graduate art programs. Last year, U.S. News and World Report ranked Massachusetts College of Art 3rd among graduate art programs in New England. Drawing students from distinguished undergraduate programs in the U.S. as well as from India, Serbia, Korea, Brazil, Germany, Zimbabwe, Russia, and other nations – the Massachusetts College of Art MFA program has become an artistic community that is truly international in scope

At MassArt, graduate students have numerous opportunities to collaborate with fellow artists across departmental and media areas. In their first semester, all Fine Arts and Media graduate students take two courses, a Graduate Seminar in which students discuss current practices in the visual arts, and a course in Contemporary Art History. Each spring, graduate student thesis exhibitions – group shows presented in the college’s professional galleries – are visited by some of Boston’s most distinguished art critics and curators.