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21 Master's degrees offered by the university
Glass
Glass from Rhode Island School of Design promotes the development of glass in contemporary art and is a leader in preparing artists for careers in this field.
Textiles
At Textiles from Rhode Island School of Design students engage in individual research to develop a personal vision and an understanding of design as an expression of a continually evolving culture.
Digital and Media
MFA candidates in Digital and Media at Rhode Island School of Design explore art, technology and emergent practices. The program encourages students to use a wide range of research methods and forms—both digital and analog—to investigate technology as a creative medium and cultural-historical phenomenon.
Graphic Design
Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design builds a sophisticated sense of context through discussion of design history and contemporary critical issues, and later helps develop individual approaches to the exploration, investigation and construction of a well-designed thesis proposal.
Furniture Design
Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design supports each student's artistic development and articulation of an individual design philosophy through the conception, design and construction of furniture and related objects.
Industrial Design
Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design explores design as a vehicle for addressing social, cultural, environmental and other concerns, recognizing that design is not simply a professional service, but rather a way of connecting individual interests and values with a social framework.
Photography
Photography from Rhode Island School of Design helps students develop visual and critical expertise through course work, seminars, independent studio work and critiques designed to provide a deep understanding of contemporary art practices and criticism.
Illustration
Rhode Island School of Design’s MFA in Illustration encourages experienced visual communicators to reflect on the illustrator’s role as an influential social actor—within the profession and in the world.
Interior Architecture - Adaptive Reuse
Interior Architecture - Adaptive Reuse from Rhode Island School of Design offers students a unique design education in the alteration of existing structures through interior interventions and the practice of adaptive reuse.
Jewelry and Metalsmithing
Jewelry and Metalsmithing from Rhode Island School of Design cultivates individual excellence by emphasizing rigorous research, material experimentation and creative practice.
Architecture
Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design is one of the few in the US embedded in a college of art and design.
Printmaking
Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design encourages individual artistic growth through the exploration of printed multiples.
Sculpture
Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design supports artists engaged in rigorous interdisciplinary practices through an emphasis on visual and critical literacy.
Painting
Painting from Rhode Island School of Design emphasizes critical and artistic growth through the evolution of a rigorous studio practice.
Global Arts and Cultures
Rhode Island School of Design's Master of Arts program in Global Arts and Cultures (GAC) invites inquiry into pressing contemporary issues at the intersection of globalization and cultural production.
Teaching
Teaching from Rhode Island School of Design is an intensive, one-year (summer through spring) cohort teacher preparation program for artists and designers eligible to work in the US that culminates in recommendation for teacher certification in art in US-based pK–12 schools.
Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design offers an exceptional opportunity to study the discipline as part of a community of makers engaged in a wide range of media and critical practices.
Interior Architecture - Exhibition and Narrative Environments
At Interior Architecture - Exhibition and Narrative Environments from Rhode Island School of Design students engage in a dynamic course of study focused on making interior interventions within the context of narrative environments—spaces that encompass or communicate a form of storytelling.
Art and Design Education
Art and Design Education at Rhode Island School of Design is an intensive, one-year (summer through spring) cohort teacher preparation program for artists and designers* that culminates in the recommendation for teacher certification in Art (PK-12).
Ceramics
Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design offers a contemporary, urban context for rigorous investigation and dialogue in support of individual artistic development.