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10 Master's degrees offered by the university
Painting and Printmaking
The Painting and Printmaking program at Virginia Commonwealth University is highly selective and is presently limited to 15 participants. It fosters intensive studio practice in the areas of painting, drawing, printmaking, and a range of interdisciplinary practices.
Sculpture
Led by an active and accomplished group of working artists, the Sculpture program at Virginia Commonwealth University promotes a fluid, liberated, experimental and progressive exploration of the transformative role of art.
Urban Revitalization
The Certificate in Urban Revitalization from Virginia Commonwealth University provides specialized training in the techniques and processes of city and neighbourhood revitalization.
Urban and Regional Planning
The Urban and Regional Planning programme from Virginia Commonwealth University advances social justice and quality of life through planning, designing and evaluating options to create, enhance and sustain the social, economic and environmental conditions that improve communities.
Design with a concentration in visual communications
The Design with a concentration in visual communications program at Virginia Commonwealth University prepares graduate students to assume a leadership role in a complex and expanding profession.
Theatre (Concentration in Pedagogy and Performance)
The Master of Fine Arts in Theatre (Concentration in Pedagogy and Performance) at Virginia Commonwealth University is individually tailored to prepare early- to mid-career theatre professionals to enter the field of teaching at the university or college level.
Art History - Museum Studies
The Art History - Museum Studies program at Virginia Commonwealth University is to equip students with requisite knowledge, skills and theoretical foundation to embark on successful careers in academia and/or museums.
Art History - Historical Studies
The purpose of the Art History - Historical Studies program at Virginia Commonwealth University is to join the community of scholars, educators, curators and critics who keep the conversation going.
Kinetic Imaging
Ranked #5 in the Time-Based – New Media category, U.S. News & World Report 2020-2021, the Kinetic Imaging program at Virginia Commonwealth University expands the fields of video art, animated arts, sound art, emerging media, installation, interactivity, coding and mediated performance through the production of work that explores the artist’s relationship to culture and society.
Photography and Film
The Photography and Film program at Virginia Commonwealth University is a graduate program built for emerging artists whose work challenges the common definitions of photography, film and video while maintaining the disciplinary integrity of traditional practice.