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Hm, I'm not sure! I feel like there used to be scholarships just for conservation students, but I don't know whether that's still true or not. Definitely worth looking into on their website, though.

Hi Cathy! From what I know (spending a year studying abroad there and from friends who went there/are currently doing their MAs there), funding is hard to come by. They graduate a very large number of MA students a year (160-180), and I imagine that decreases the chances for funding quite a bit. I don't want to discourage you, but wanted to share what I know! Do you have any other sources of income or possible funding?

Yes, he is! His interests diverge from mine, but he's definitely one of my POI.

Hi all! I've been lurking on this forum for a while now, and since I've finally got some decisions in, I though I'd ask for advice. So far, I've been very lucky to get accepted for 4/5 of my schools: Tufts, the Courtauld, Birkbeck College at the University of London, and York University. I'm still waiting on a decision from Oxford, which is making me crazy. Basically my dilemma boils down to this...Tufts is giving me a 50% tuition scholarship and I love the chance to spend two years figuring out what I want to do next and all of the opportunities I'd have for work experience/internships and building up my academic experience. What doesn't excite meare the faculty or the courses they've offered for Spring 2017. The only professor I'd really be interested in does work in museum history/theory, even though I'd really like to keep pursuing work in nineteenth-century British art and visual culture. Not quite a match, but it could probably work. I'm also a little concerned about the living costs of Boston for two years. The Courtauld is my next option, and I'm excited about my course and the professor leading it--she does interesting research and has links to the Yale Center of British Art and Yale is where I dream of doing a PhD. I've already studied abroad in London twice and at the Courtauld for a year in 2014. I'm lucky that I would get an alumni discount because of that, but I'm worried it would almost be too...repetitive? It's a prestigious name and I loved my time there, but would it be better to broaden my horizons? And is it better to have a great name in the field or something that translates more broadly? Oxford sounds pretty amazing overall, but it won't give me much in terms of work experience and I'm not entirrly convinced my interests jive with the department. I do like its emphasis on visual culture and interdisciplinary research, so I'm thinking I could make my niche t. Without funding, it would also be a hefty tuition fee to pay, so it makes me wonder how worth it the name really is for the price tag since I don't expect any funding at all (let alone to really get in...) Lastly...Birbeck and York are both fairly well-established within the UK, but my guess is they'd have zero impact in the US....but they offer the academics I'm most interested in and most aligned with my interests. There are some really great Victorianists at Birkbeck and York has course modules taught by Tate Britain curators. They also have either the cheapest tuition and/or living costs. So prestige vs academic fit and cost?? Sorry this is so long, but any advice would be amazing. Congrats to everyone for all of their acceptances!