Master’s degree · MFA
Master of Fine Arts
Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design · Whitecliffe Fine Arts · Auckland, New Zealand
- Official award
- Master of Fine ArtsMFA
- Subject
- Fine Arts
- Format
- HybridFull-time, two years
- Tuition
- NZ$11,802per year, 2027
Hybrid program
About this program
A two-year full-time distance master's in fine arts with some in-person seminars.
- Department
- Whitecliffe Fine Arts
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
Verified in official recordNew Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA)Institutional accreditation or recognitionNZ
Reference: 8509
Scope: Listed in NZQA's Find Education Organisations register as Whitecliffe Education Limited (trading as Whitecliffe College). Degree-level accreditation of the individual programs was not checked.
Study structure
- Delivery
- HybridA mix of online and in-person study without a fixed residency model. A hybrid degree is never described as fully online.
- Online instruction
- Blended with required campus elements
- Campus studio required
- Not published
- Campus residencies or workshops
- Some in-person seminars
- Live attendance
- Live attendance not published
- International enrolment
- Not published
- Study mode
- Full-time
- Duration
- Full-time, two years
- Intakes
- February 2027
- Campus
- Symonds Street 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First-year fee 2027 (plus $300 Student Services Levy), domesticTuition | NZ$11,802per year, 2027 | Domestic students | 23 October 2026Source |
| First-year fee 2027 (plus $300 Student Services Levy), internationalTuition | NZ$27,000per year, 2027 | International students | 23 October 2026Source |
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: portfolio requirement, whether a previous degree is required.
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)