marxista Posted February 7 Posted February 7 (edited) All stats from trusted users, school websites, and Paterson’s as last recourse. PLEASE CORRECT IF WRONG, or drop a line if you want to add a school. Currently only includes MFA programs in the following categories: 1. Painting / Drawing 2: Sculpture 3: Photography 4: Digital Media / Kinetic Arts 5: Film/Video 6: Graphic Design RISD Painting: 8% Sculpture: 21% Photography: 10% Graphic Design: 9% Digital Media: 8% SAIC Painting/Drawing: 8% Sculpture: 11% Photography: 13% Visual Communication: 32% Art and Technology: 24% Film, Video, New Media, and Animation: 35% Northwestern Art, Theory, Practice: 5% CalArts School of Art (Art + Photography + Graphic Design): 18% School of Film/Video: 28% Yale School of Art (Painting/Printmaking + Sculpture + Photography + Graphic Design): 5% Columbia Visual Arts: 2% Film: 18% VCU Craft/Material Studies: 42% Kinetic Imaging: 17% Sculpture and Expanded Media: 12% Painting: 9% Photography and Film: 29% UCLA Art: 3% Design Media Arts: 8% Film and Television: 9% Bard Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (low residency): 12% Bard-ICP Photography: 19% MICA Hoffberger School of Painting: 9% Rinehart School of Sculpture: 19% Mount Royal School of Art (interdisciplinary): 7% Photographic and Electronic Media: 21% Graphic Design: 11% Cranbrook Fine Arts (including all majors): 23% NYU Studio Art: 15% Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP, MPS degree): 55% Film and Television: 9% Hunter College Studio Art: 11% Integrated Media Arts: 22% UCSD Visual Arts: 12% Rutgers (Mason Gross School of the Arts) Visual Arts: 9% SVA Fine Arts: 19% Design: 14% Interaction Design: 25% Computer Art: 32% Photography, Video and Related Media: 33% Parsons Fine Arts: 45% Photography: 30% Design and Technology: 88% Pratt Fine Arts: 38% Communications Design: 52% Digital Arts: 25% Art Center (needs update) Art: 50%+ (updated) Media Design Practices: 61% Film: 55% Edited February 7 by marxista
SocialKonstruct Posted February 7 Posted February 7 5 minutes ago, marxista said: All stats from trusted users, school websites, and Paterson’s as last recourse. PLEASE CORRECT IF WRONG, or drop a line if you want to add a school. Currently only includes MFA programs in the following categories: 1. Painting / Drawing 2: Sculpture 3: Photography 4: Digital Media / Kinetic Arts 5: Film/Video 6: Graphic Design RISD Painting: 8% Sculpture: 21% Photography: 10% Graphic Design: 9% Digital Media: 8% SAIC Painting/Drawing: 8% Sculpture: 11% Photography: 13% Visual Communication: 32% Art and Technology: 24% Film, Video, New Media, and Animation: 35% Northwestern Art, Theory, Practice: 5% CalArts School of Art (Art + Photography + Graphic Design): 18% School of Film/Video: 28% Yale School of Art (Painting/Printmaking + Sculpture + Photography + Graphic Design): 5% Columbia Visual Arts: 2% Film: 18% VCU Craft/Material Studies: 42% Kinetic Imaging: 17% Sculpture and Expanded Media: 12% Painting: 9% Photography and Film: 29% UCLA Art: 3% Design Media Arts: 8% Film and Television: 9% Bard Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (low residency): 12% Bard-ICP Photography: 19% MICA Hoffberger School of Painting: 9% Rinehart School of Sculpture: 19% Mount Royal School of Art (interdisciplinary): 7% Photographic and Electronic Media: 21% Graphic Design: 11% Cranbrook Fine Arts (including all majors): 23% NYU Studio Art: 15% Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP, MPS degree): 55% Film and Television: 9% Hunter College Studio Art: 11% Integrated Media Arts: 22% UCSD Visual Arts: 12% Rutgers (Mason Gross School of the Arts) Visual Arts: 9% SVA Fine Arts: 19% Design: 14% Interaction Design: 25% Computer Art: 32% Photography, Video and Related Media: 33% Parsons Fine Arts: 45% Photography: 30% Design and Technology: 88% Pratt Fine Arts: 38% Communications Design: 52% Digital Arts: 25% Art Center Art: 29% Media Design Practices: 61% Film: 55% This list is out of date. Art Center has just now increased their acceptance rate to over 50% in fact as of last year due to the political regime changes and the decreased support for intl students... Rolling admission deadline too.
marxista Posted February 7 Author Posted February 7 7 minutes ago, SocialKonstruct said: This list is out of date. Art Center has just now increased their acceptance rate to over 50% in fact as of last year due to the political regime changes and the decreased support for intl students... Rolling admission deadline too. Thanks!
SocialKonstruct Posted February 8 Posted February 8 On 2/7/2026 at 5:54 AM, marxista said: Thanks! This policy at ArtCenter changed when we got our new chairs (Jennings and Thater) and the number of international art students went down substantially. The cohort size at ArtCenter (my class is the last of its kind) went from around 8-10 now up to 17-19 students per year so the MFA program is over twice as large. Plus admissions are now rolling so it's a good idea to apply to ArtCenter until the cohort sizes are filled up. The faculty is outstanding I must say. About UCLA the acceptance rate went down most likely. Funding there is harder to get so I assume that less folks are able to get in starting Trump 2.0 era.
L4mp Posted February 9 Posted February 9 Thank you for the chart! just wondering where you got the stats for NYU ITP (55% seems really high and Im waiting to hear from them for 26fall), also by any chance you would have ideas for USC and Calarts MFA, especially for their animation programs?
marxista Posted March 6 Author Posted March 6 (edited) RISD (2025) Painting: 9% Sculpture: 16% Photography: 10% Graphic Design: 9% Digital + Media: 7% Glass: 19% Jewelry and Metalsmithing: 22% Industrial Design: 9% Furniture Design: 20% SAIC (2025) Painting/Drawing: 11% Sculpture: 18% Photography: 15% Visual Communication: 35% Art and Technology: 16% Film, Video, New Media, and Animation: 13% Northwestern (2025) Art, Theory, Practice: 5% CalArts (2025) School of Art (Art + Photography + Graphic Design): 18% School of Film/Video (Film/Video + Film Directing + Experimental Animation): 28% Yale (2024) School of Art (Painting/Printmaking + Sculpture + Photography + Graphic Design): 6% Columbia (2025) Visual Arts and Sound Art: 2% (6-8% receive acceptance call) Film: 18% VCU (2025) Craft/Material Studies: 18% Kinetic Imaging: 13% Sculpture and Expanded Media: 6% Painting: 9% Photography and Film: 21% UCLA (2025) Art: 3% Design | Media Arts: 7% Film and Television: 9% Bard (2025) Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts: 10% Bard-ICP Photography: 19% MICA (2025) Hoffberger School of Painting: 9% Rinehart School of Sculpture: 19% Mount Royal School of Art (interdisciplinary): 7% Photographic and Electronic Media: 21% Graphic Design: 11% Community Arts: 25% Cranbrook (2023) Fine Arts (including all majors): 23% NYU (2024) Studio Art: 15% Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP, MPS degree): 35% Film and Television: 12% Hunter College (2025) Studio Art: 9% Integrated Media Arts: 17% UCSD (2023) Visual Arts: 11% Rutgers (Mason Gross School of the Arts) (2025) Visual Arts: 10% SVA (2025) Fine Arts: 17% Design: 14% Interaction Design: 19% Computer Art: 26% Photography, Video and Related Media: 23% Parsons (2024) Fine Arts: 25% Photography: 29% Design and Technology: 50+% Pratt (2025) Fine Arts: 28% Communications Design: 31% Digital Arts: 27% Art Center (needs update) Art: 50%+ (updated, 2025) Media Design Practices: 61% Film: 55% Alfred (2025) Ceramic Art: 7% Sculpture and Dimension Studies: 10% Painting: 19% Electronic and Extended Media: 18% University of Southern California (2026) Roski School of Art and Design (Art): 5% Edited March 6 by marxista SocialKonstruct 1
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