Master’s degree · MFA
Master of Fine Arts in Image Text
Cornell University · Department of Art, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) · Ithaca, New York, United States
- Official award
- Master of Fine Arts in Image TextMFA
- Subject
- Fine Arts
- Format
- Low residency25 months
- Tuition
- Not published
Low-residency program
About this program
25-month low-residency MFA combining creative writing, visual media and design for print and digital publication, with three five-week summers in Ithaca and remote study with international field courses between them.
- Department
- Department of Art, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP)
- Awarding body
- Not stated on the pages we checked
Award and subject
The award is shown exactly as the institution titles it. A program belongs to a subject only through the link below: a dedicated degree, a named major, a formal concentration or a documented pathway.
- Official award
- Master of Fine Arts in Image TextMFA
- Award family
- MFAA Master of Fine Arts, exactly as titled by the awarding institution.
- Academic level
- Master’s degree
- Previous degree required
- Not published
| Subject | Relationship | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Fine Arts | Dedicated degreeThe official program title is in this subject. |
Accreditation, validation and recognition
Recorded for this program and campus, with the authority’s role. Institutional accreditation, degree-awarding authority, program accreditation, professional validation and national qualification registers are different things.
No program-level accreditation or validation record has been verified yet. That does not mean none exists; check the national authority and the institution.
Study structure
- Delivery
- Low residencyMostly distance study with required periods on site (residencies). It is never described as fully online.
- Online instruction
- Distance study with required residencies
- Campus studio required
- Yes
- Campus residencies or workshops
- Three five-week summer sessions of intensive in-person classes with faculty and visiting artists
- Residency frequency
- three summer sessions
- Residency length
- five weeks each
- Residency location
- Cornell AAP, Ithaca
- Attendance mandatory
- Yes
- Travel expectations
- Fall and spring semesters include immersive international field courses.
- Online components
- Remote independent study and work with faculty advisors during the fall and spring semesters.
- Additional residency costs
- Not published
- Live attendance
- Live attendance not published
- International enrolment
- Not published
- Study mode
- Not published
- Duration
- 25 months
- Campus attendance
- Three five-week summer sessions of intensive in-person classes
- Intakes
- Not published
- Campus
- Ithaca campus
Teaching language
- Taught in
- English
- English
- English teaching not verifiedAn English-language website does not mean a program is taught in English.
Admissions
- Portfolio
- Portfolio requirement not published
- Interview
- Not published
Fees and costs
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The institution does not publish tuition for this program on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and whether studio, materials, fabrication, printing, software, equipment, travel and residency costs are extra.
Scholarships and funding
Funding is shown with its basis and who it is for. Competitive funding is not a guarantee.
Partial tuition scholarships Scholarship
Competitive
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: tuition, full-time or part-time options, intakes, portfolio requirement, whether a previous degree is required, accreditation or validation record.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 23 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 23 October 2026)