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Qualification
MFA - Master of Fine Art
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Location
York St John University
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
01-SEP-25
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Duration
2 years
Course summary
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:
- Lectures
- Seminars
- Tutorials
- Critiques
- Briefs and live projects
- Field trips and participatory events
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:
- Artist
- Advertising art director
- Commercial art gallery manager
- Community arts worker
- Exhibition designer
- Museum or gallery curator
Modules
Tuition fees
- Hong Kong
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Angola
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
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- Belize
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- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Burma
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- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Curacao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- England
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
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- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
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- Israel
- Italy
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Korea DPR (North Korea)
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
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- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Northern Ireland
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestinian Authority
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Republic of Ireland
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Scotland
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- St Vincent
- St. Kitts & Nevis
- St. Lucia
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
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- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
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- UAE
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- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
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- Wales
- Western Samoa
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
拢 14,000per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information
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University League Table
101st
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Campus address
York St John University, Lord Mayor's Walk, York, York, YO31 7EX, England
Subject rankings
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Subject ranking
65th out of 84 5
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Entry standards
/ Max 239123 51%62nd
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10072.0 72%15th
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.22 81%25th
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