2025-2026 Graduate Catalog
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Shreepad Joglekar, The Lindy E. Bell Head of the Department of Art
Nancy Morrow, Graduate Program Director
111 Willard Hall
785-532-6605
Fax: 785-532-0334
art@k-state.edu
http://art.ksu.edu/grad/admission.html
The Department of Art offers a 60-hour graduate program leading to the Master of Fine Arts degree. As established by the College Art Association and accepted by all accredited universities, the Master of Fine Arts degree is the terminal degree in studio art practice and is equivalent to terminal degrees in other fields, such as the Ph.D. or Ed.D. The intent of the M.F.A. Program is to educate students for professional careers as artists and designers or as college and university teachers of the visual arts.
First and foremost, the profession demands from the recipient of the M.F.A. degree the ability to produce technically and conceptually accomplished and engaging art. When work toward the M.F.A. is concentrated in a particular medium, professional mastery of that medium is expected. A generalist, with less specialized practice, must still meet the critical demands of the profession by demonstrating expertise and knowledge in several areas. In any case, the need for thorough training of the mind, the eye, and the hand is self-evident.
Admission procedures
For information regarding admission procedures, please see the Department of Art website at http://art.ksu.edu/grad/admission.html.
Entrance requirements
To be admitted as a graduate student in the M.F.A. program, the applicant must have a B.A., or B.F.A. degree from an accredited institution, adequate undergraduate education in the visual arts, and an undergraduate average of B (3.0) or better in the last six semesters of their university coursework. The applicant will ideally have at least 60 undergraduate semester credit hours in visual arts, with a minimum of 20 semester hours in the area of concentration.
All international students applying to the M.F.A. program must meet the same level of achievement as U.S. students.
Applicants with the M.A. degree
Students with an M.A. degree from an accredited institution who wish to apply for the M.F.A. program at Kansas State University should follow the same general application procedures outlined above.
Students who hold an M.A. degree may apply up to 10 hours of that degree toward an M.F.A with approval from the Department of Art before starting the program. The number of hours accepted will depend on the relevance of the course work to the M.F.A. After the applicant has been accepted into the M.F.A. program, the Graduate Program Director will meet with the department’s Graduate Studies Committee, the proposed major professor and the coordinator of the student’s studio area to evaluate the student’s transcript and to determine the number of credits that may be applied to the M.F.A. degree.
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