Radford University Design Thinking MFA or Clark University/other Low-Residency Fine Art MFA?

[Squirrel8296]

I'm looking at low residency and fully remote MFA programs. A full residency program is not in the cards, nor are the low-residency programs like Bard that require multi-month long in person commitments every year. Radford's Design Thinking program and Clark's new Fine Art MFA programs both piqued my interest and I am drawn to them for different reasons.

Radford Design Thinking

• Aligns better with my current role and industry career trajectory (advertising)
• More academic/research and writing based
• Established program that is well enough known 
• Design Thinking is hot right now
• Fully remote - no in person at all

Clark Low Residency MFA

• More aligned with the direction I want to go (full time arts position)
• Interdisciplinary creative program
• Highly individualized
• It's a new program
• Faculty I wanted to work with at Lesley moved to start this one
• 2x 10 day residencies per year which is super doable
• Thesis exhibition is at Mass MoCA

edit: forgot to add. I’ve looked at other programs as well, like the Media Design MFA at Full Sail, but Full Sail feels questionable to me.

Edited April 9 by Squirrel8296
Forgot to add something; it’s under “edit” in the post