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Art Center College of Design Master of Fine Arts in Media Design Practices
Art Center College of Design

Art Center College of Design

Master of Fine Arts in Media Design Practices

Santa Barbara, USA

MA

Full time

Sep 2025

On-Campus

Key Summary

    About : The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Media Design Practices focuses on the intersection of design and technology. This program encourages students to explore innovative media, enhancing their practical and theoretical understanding over the course of two years. It'll help you develop your own distinctive voice as a designer while engaging with current challenges in the field.
    Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue diverse career paths including roles like media designer, user experience designer, and interdisciplinary creator. Opportunities may also exist in sectors such as entertainment, advertising, and product development.

Art Center’s graduate program in Media Design Practices offers a two- or three-year Master of Fine Arts curriculum that helps ambitious designers from a variety of backgrounds become design leaders and researchers in emerging fields. We are dedicated to defining new practices in design. Our graduates are prepared for a lifetime of invention.

Our vision is to educate designers not for the world as it is, but as it is becoming, to think hard about what it means to use our agency as designers to make the world as we may want it to be.

To take this on, we offer two tracks: Lab and Field. Each track, in its own way, orients the designer toward the challenges of the future and the changing role of design.