Master’s degree · MFA
MFA in Visual Art
Vermont College of Fine Arts · MFA in Visual Art, VCFA · No campus · institution based in United States
- Official award
- Master of Fine Arts in Visual ArtMFA
- Subject
- Fine Arts
- Format
- Low residency2 years
- Tuition
- $15,631per semester, current (page undated)
Low-residency program
About this program
A two-year low-residency MFA with no media restrictions; students make work in home studios under faculty mentors and meet for nine-day residencies.
- Department
- MFA in Visual Art, VCFA
- 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 Visual ArtMFA
- 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
- No
- Campus residencies or workshops
- 5 nine-day residencies over four semesters.
- Residency frequency
- 4 semesters, 5 nine-day residencies
- Residency length
- nine-day
- Residency location
- Not published
- Attendance mandatory
- Yes
- Travel expectations
- Not published
- Online components
- All studio work is created in home studios with one-on-one faculty mentors; about 6 hours per week of Visual Culture research.
- Additional residency costs
- Not published
- Live attendance
- Live attendance not published
- International enrolment
- Not published
- Study mode
- Not published
- Duration
- 2 years
- Studio requirements
- Students are expected to spend 20 hours per week creating in their home studios
- Campus attendance
- 5 nine-day residencies
- Thesis or dissertation
- Process Paper presented at final residency
- Intakes
- Winter, Summer
Source could not be re-checked automatically.
Teaching language
- Taught in
- Not stated on the pages we checked
- English
- English teaching not verifiedAn English-language website does not mean a program is taught in English.
- Differences by campus or pathway
- Residency location is not stated on the program page fetched.
Admissions
- Portfolio
- Portfolio requirement not published
- Interview
- Not published
Fees and costs
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per year, per credit, whole program), academic year and student category, and is never converted. Annual tuition and whole-program tuition are different figures.
| Item | Amount | Applies to | Dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| TuitionTuition · mandatory | $15,631per semester, current (page undated) | All students | 23 October 2026SourceSource could not be re-checked automatically. |
No total is shown: the sources do not state a whole-program figure and the published duration and fee basis do not support a calculation.
Studio fees, materials, fabrication, printing, software, equipment, compulsory travel, residencies and exhibition charges are not listed by the institution on the pages we checked; art students often meet such costs.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: full-time or part-time options, 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)