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Minneapolis Higher of Art and Design

2501 Stevens Artery, Minneapolis, , Minnesota

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The Minneapolis College of Fine art and Design (MCAD), located merely south of Downtown Minneapolis, has historic creating fine art on the cutting edge for more than 130 years. With the highest accreditation level for an art and design college, MCAD provides the education you demand to grow along with the freedom critical to fostering your individual inventiveness. MCAD's faculty, comprised exclusively of working artists and designers, is renowned for its ingenuity and expertise. MCAD educates individuals to be professional artists and designers, pioneering thinkers, creative leaders, and engaged global citizens through its offer of bachelor's degrees, principal'south degrees, and post-baccalaureate certificates in a variety of areas including design, fine arts, media, and communications.

DEGREES OFFERED: BFA, BSc, MFA, MA, PB

ACCREDITATION: NASAD, NCACS

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Certificate
Associates Caste
Bachelor'southward Degree

Postbaccalaureate Certificate
Low-Residency Masters
Masters Degree

Fully Online
Partially Online
Optional Online

FOUNDATION PROGRAM

Providing a solid base of operations upon which more focused studies can build, foundation studio courses go you grounded in basic art and design concepts, and foundation liberal arts courses teach you about art and design history while also helping you hone your writing and enquiry skills.

This program is Residential.

Acceptance Charge per unit: 55%

Acceptance Rate = The per centum of students admitted out of applications received in a given yr.

ENROLLMENT: FALL 2020

UNDERGRADUATE FTE¹ = 655

UNDERGRADUATE

Total-Time	645
Function-Time	26

NOTE one: "Full-Time Equivalent" is the common fashion to measure the relative size of colleges. This adjusts for differences in the percent of part-time students (or faculty). For instance: one full-time student = 1 FTE; three half-fourth dimension students = 1.5 FTE, etc.

UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS Procedure

Application:	Required
ONLINE Application:	Required
Awarding FEES:	$50 (judge)
Dwelling EXAM:	Not Required
INTERVIEW:	Recommended
ESSAY:	Required
SAT / ACT:	Required
PORTFOLIO:	Required, depending on plan
Letters OF RECOMMENDATION:	Required (1)
IELTS:	Required if English is a second language
TOEFL:	Required if English is a 2d language

TRANSCRIPTS

High School:	Required
College:	Required, if transferring

Kinesthesia: 2020-2021

Kinesthesia FTEⁱ = 62

FULL-TIME	37
Role-Time	108

Educatee/Faculty RATIO: FALL 2020
13.97702 TO 1
FTE STUDENTS PER FTE FACULTY¹

Retentivity

FRESHMAN RETENTION

FALL 2018 FRESHMEN RETURNING IN Fall 2019	75%

FALL 2019 FRESHMEN RETURNING IN Fall 2020	68%

GRADUATION

SIX-YEAR GRADUATION RATE

Fall 2013 FRESHMEN GRADUATING Within SIX YEARS	67%

Fall 2014 FRESHMEN GRADUATING Inside 6 YEARS	63%

UNDERGRADUATE ETHNICITY

Autumn 2020

7% AFRICAN AMERICAN
10% ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER
10% HISPANIC
64% WHITE/NON-HISPANIC
3% NATIVE AMERICAN
2% MULTIRACIAL
2% OTHER/UNKNOWN
2% INTERNATIONAL

UNDERGRADUATE GENDER DISTRIBUTION

FALL 2020

seventy% Female
30% MALE

NEW STUDENT GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION²

FALL 2020

sixty% IN-STATE
0% OTHER STATES
39% Residuum OF U.S.
ane% INTERNATIONAL

OTHER PROGRAMS

Document Programs
Art History Pocket-sized
Teaching Artist Pocket-size
Creative Writing Small-scale
Art Educator Workshops
Continuing Education
Camps and Classes for Youth
Pre-College Summer Session for Loftier School Students
Post-Secondary Education Opportunity (PSEO)
Online Post-Baccalaureate in Interactive Pattern and Marketing
Online Master of Arts in Sustainable Design
Post-Baccalaureate in Graphic Design (partially online)

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES

Personal Studio Spaces
On-Campus Apartments
Study Abroad
AICAD Substitution Plan
Local, National, and International Internships
Online Courses
Student-Run Gallery
MCAD Art Sale
MCAD DesignWorks
Career Services

NOTE 1: "Total-Time Equivalent" is the common fashion to mensurate the relative size of colleges. This adjusts for differences in the pct of part-time students (or kinesthesia). For example: one full-time pupil = 1 FTE; iii one-half-time students = 1.5 FTE, etc. Notation two: Geographic distribution is reported for outset-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates. Annotation 3: Includes all institutional scholarships and grants, but does not include College Work Study or third party awards.

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Source: https://www.aicad.org/schools/minneapolis-college-of-art-and-design/