
Take Your Creativity to the Next Level
Advance your design skills and increase your understanding of the intersection of business and design.
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Achieve a higher level of proficiency in creative design innovation and problem-solving techniques, design business strategy, ideation, and marketing, and prepare for a career in design education. Based in Dallas, our facilities immerse you in one of the nation’s most vibrant areas in business and design. Work with award-winning faculty and industry leaders as you develop advanced skills in creative conceptualization, design process, product, and pedagogy development. Special concentration is placed on design criticism combined with courses in creative strategies or business practices, professional leadership, design history, and design education curriculum. Our MFA program is a terminal degree that prepares you to teach at the university level or advance your career.

SEE YOURSELF SUCCEED WITH A Master of Fine Arts with a Visual Communication Emphasis degree
What will you learn
A Master of Fine Arts degree with a Visual Communication emphasis degree will offer you the opportunity to:
- Enhance your critical thinking and creative strategies
- Learn innovative business practices, leadership in the workforce and the marketing of a product
- Study pedagogical theories and techniques to prepare you to teach at the college level
- Complete a thesis exhibition that addresses an issue of social, educational, environmental or economic importance

Careers
Many of our graduates find employment as instructors at community colleges or universities. People looking for careers in marketing, web development, education, nonprofit and more may benefit from a degree in visual communications.
Career Possibilities
- Digital Media/Animation
- Painting
- Sculpture
- Photography
- Drawing/Printmaking
- Ceramics/Metal/Fiber/Glass
- Film Video
- Architecture/Interiors
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Course Delivery and Resources
Designed for current educators and working professionals, we offer courses in the evening to fit your schedule. First-semester students take courses two nights per week. Courses are offered at the new A&M-Commerce at Dallas location.
Graduate Program Cost
PROGRAM COSTS
Tuition and fees for graduate students taking nine credit hours are $3,669 for Texas residents and $7,341 for non-residents.
ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS International/Domestic Tabs
Admission
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- Department of Art
- 214.954.3636
- 214.954.3636
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