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MFA - Master of Fine Art
York St John University
Full Time
SEP-25
2 years
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MFA - Master of Fine Art
York St John University
Full Time
SEP-25
2 years
Select a an exam type
Develop as an artist and refine your creative practice. Experiment, explore and encourage your professional practice to emerge.
Our Fine Art MFA enables you to enrich your existing practice and develop as a professional artist in a creative community. You will produce a mature body of work, coexisting with debates at the forefront of your discipline. The course focuses on making, informed by technical knowledge. You will research, develop and refine your ideas. Your practice and your academic understanding will become inseparable.
Course overview
Whether you have recently finished an undergraduate degree, or are returning to learning, this could be the postgraduate course for you. As a student on our Fine Art MFA you will develop a deeper knowledge of your creative practice.
Identify and explore the qualities that this stage of your career requires. Expand your material knowledge through:
Explore your own potential as a citizen of the world, understanding your creative work in terms of both ethics and social justice.
Career outcomes
Where could Fine Art MFA take you?
This course is designed to give you significant industry exposure to increase your opportunities for employment once you graduate. You will study specialist modules that require you to work with external partners in publishing, exhibitions, agencies and education. This will help you to establish networks and gain relevant experience with industry professionals. You will gain transferrable skills in creative problem solving as well as critical thinking, writing and presenting.
This will give you an advantage in careers such as:
Students need to have a 2:1 honours degree in a related subject. Interview: including artist statement and portfolio. If your degree is in an unrelated subject, but you can provide a strong portfolio, your application may still be considered.
Students living in
Domestic
£4,400 per year
Students from Domestic
This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
£14,000 per year
Students from EU
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.
£14,000 per year
Students from International
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from a country outside the EU.