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21 Master's degrees offered by the university
Photography
Photography from Rhode Island School of Design helps students develop visual and critical expertise through course work, seminars, independent studio work and critiques designed to provide a deep understanding of contemporary art practices and criticism.
Global Arts and Cultures
Rhode Island School of Design's Master of Arts program in Global Arts and Cultures (GAC) invites inquiry into pressing contemporary issues at the intersection of globalization and cultural production.
Art and Design Education
Art and Design Education at Rhode Island School of Design is an intensive, one-year (summer through spring) cohort teacher preparation program for artists and designers* that culminates in the recommendation for teacher certification in Art (PK-12).
Interior Architecture - Adaptive Reuse
Interior Architecture - Adaptive Reuse from Rhode Island School of Design offers students a unique design education in the alteration of existing structures through interior interventions and the practice of adaptive reuse.
Teaching
Teaching from Rhode Island School of Design is an intensive, one-year (summer through spring) cohort teacher preparation program for artists and designers eligible to work in the US that culminates in recommendation for teacher certification in art in US-based pK–12 schools.
Jewelry and Metalsmithing
Jewelry and Metalsmithing from Rhode Island School of Design cultivates individual excellence by emphasizing rigorous research, material experimentation and creative practice.
Design Engineering
Collaboration is central to the Design Engineering program, as you work with a range of experts to envision alternative frameworks for addressing public health, education, climate change and more. At Rhode Island School of Design you develop effective solutions through iterative making and testing and express ideas through the objects you create, towards an ultimate goal of improving lives.
Glass
Glass from Rhode Island School of Design promotes the development of glass in contemporary art and is a leader in preparing artists for careers in this field.
Sculpture
Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design supports artists engaged in rigorous interdisciplinary practices through an emphasis on visual and critical literacy.
Industrial Design
Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design explores design as a vehicle for addressing social, cultural, environmental and other concerns, recognizing that design is not simply a professional service, but rather a way of connecting individual interests and values with a social framework.
Printmaking
Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design encourages individual artistic growth through the exploration of printed multiples.
Graphic Design
Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design builds a sophisticated sense of context through discussion of design history and contemporary critical issues, and later helps develop individual approaches to the exploration, investigation and construction of a well-designed thesis proposal.
Interior Architecture - Exhibition and Narrative Environments
At Interior Architecture - Exhibition and Narrative Environments from Rhode Island School of Design students engage in a dynamic course of study focused on making interior interventions within the context of narrative environments—spaces that encompass or communicate a form of storytelling.
Architecture
Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design is one of the few in the US embedded in a college of art and design.
Digital and Media
MFA candidates in Digital and Media at Rhode Island School of Design explore art, technology and emergent practices. The program encourages students to use a wide range of research methods and forms—both digital and analog—to investigate technology as a creative medium and cultural-historical phenomenon.
Illustration
Rhode Island School of Design’s MFA in Illustration encourages experienced visual communicators to reflect on the illustrator’s role as an influential social actor—within the profession and in the world.
Ceramics
Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design offers a contemporary, urban context for rigorous investigation and dialogue in support of individual artistic development.
Furniture Design
Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design supports each student's artistic development and articulation of an individual design philosophy through the conception, design and construction of furniture and related objects.
Textiles
At Textiles from Rhode Island School of Design students engage in individual research to develop a personal vision and an understanding of design as an expression of a continually evolving culture.
Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design offers an exceptional opportunity to study the discipline as part of a community of makers engaged in a wide range of media and critical practices.