Master’s degree · MFA
MFA in Illustration
University of Hartford · Hartford Art School · West Hartford, Connecticut, United States
- Official award
- Master of Fine ArtsMFA
- Subject
- Illustration
- Format
- Low residencytwo years (summer, fall, spring semesters each) plus two weeks (final third summer)
- Tuition
- Not published
Low-residency program
About this program
Low-residency MFA for practicing illustrators combining two-week summer residencies on campus with traveling contact periods in spring and fall.
- Department
- Hartford Art School
- 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 ArtsMFA
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Illustration | 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
- Not published
- Campus residencies or workshops
- Our low residency program couples intensive, on-campus sessions in the summer with traveling spring and fall contact periods.
- Residency frequency
- summer on-campus sessions plus traveling contact periods in spring and fall
- Residency length
- two weeks on campus in the summer
- Residency location
- University of Hartford campus, West Hartford, Connecticut, plus travel locations
- Attendance mandatory
- Yes
- Travel expectations
- Between the two-week summer residencies, we meet in major cities across the country
- Online components
- Not published
- Additional residency costs
- Not published
- Live attendance
- Live attendance not published
- International enrolment
- Not published
- Study mode
- Full-time
- Duration
- two years (summer, fall, spring semesters each) plus two weeks (final third summer)
- Credits
- 60 creditsCredit systems differ between countries and institutions.
- Campus attendance
- two weeks on campus each summer
- Intakes
- Summer semester start
- Campus
- University of Hartford, West Hartford200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117
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.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: tuition, 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)