Undergraduate Programs

A creative, innovative, flexible curriculum.

All students take core First Year Experience and then choose a major. In addition to a major, students may also choose a Minor to focus on areas where they have a particular interest.

For graduate programs of study, go here.

Pending final approval, programs marked with * will be available for students entering in the Fall 2025 semester to declare in 2026.

First Year Experience (Freshman)

First Year Experience (FYE)

MICA’s First Year Experience (FYE) is a foundation-level exploratory art and design program that supports the diversity of our community, the discovery of various learning pathways, and student curiosity.

4+1 and 4+2 Programs

Art Education 4+1 Year (B.F.A./M.A.T.)

The B.F.A./M.A.T 4+1 is an opportunity to maximize your educational experience by earning your B.F.A. in the studio major of your choosing, while also fulfilling education requirements that prepare you for graduate level work in art education. With the expert support of the M.A.T. Coordinator of Undergraduate Art Education and Academic Advisor, students can earn a B.F.A. and an M.A.T. in just five years.

Teaching 4+2 Year (M.A.T.)

MICA's M.A.T. program is nationally recognized for its success in preparing art education professionals who integrate personal artistry with the skill and understanding to direct the art making of others in deeply meaningful ways.

Majors

Animation

Animation is as old as storytelling—and more relevant than ever.

Creative Media Production

The field of creative media production is more expansive — and more interconnected — than ever before.

Design and Innovation

Design touches everything — and its ability to solve complex transdisciplinary problems has never been more relevant.

Ecosystems, Sustainability & Justice

Art and Design are perhaps the oldest and most powerful tools to address social justice and environmental crisis.

Fiber

Textile structure is expressive and physical. The connections between surface, form, material and meaning create a rich terrain to explore.

Film & Video

Produce, examine, and critique moving images of all kinds.

Game Design

Our program examines the role of play in our culture and questions how games are used to entertain, educate, and create meaning.

General Fine Arts

General Fine Arts at MICA allows you to follow your passion and create a unique artistic path.

Graphic Design

Graphic design is one of the most powerful forms of communication.

History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture

Students in this program become both artmakers and scholars.

Illustration

Illustrators bring ideas to life.

Interactive Arts

As an Interactive Arts student at MICA, you will improvise, innovate, experiment, and play as you create unique, interactive experiences across an array of traditional and emerging media.

Interdisciplinary Sculpture

Sculpture is contemporary art's meta-medium, where artists cross boundaries, invent hybrid processes, and explore innovative content in the areas of object-making, installation, performance, contextual practice, socially-engaged work, time-based art, and digital forms.

Interior Design

Launch Your Future in Interior Design. The Bachelor of Design (BDes) in Interior Design is designed for creatives who want to transform interior environments.

Painting

MICA's Painting Department is ranked as one of the best in the country, providing our majors with many opportunities and greater visibility for their achievements.

Photography

One of the first programs of its kind worldwide, the photography program at MICA was established more than 100 years ago.

Printmaking

MICA’s Printmaking major offers a comprehensive print media education delivered in an incredible new 20,000 sq ft facility dedicated to the art of Print, Book and Paper.

Studio and Humanistic Studies

The Dual Major in Humanistic Studies is for students who seek a deeper engagement with the Liberal Arts and Sciences curriculum at MICA.

User Experience (UX) Design

A Professional UX Design Degree Built for Real-World Digital Practice

Co-Majors

Architectural Design

The Architectural Design Co-Major is a paired program that integrates with MICA’s Design and Innovation BFA.

Bio Design

BioDesign is a transdisciplinary practice that is technologically, ecologically, and existentially engaged with our more-than-human world.

Film & Video

A Co-Major (with Creative Media Production), or studio Minor, in Film & Video provides students with technical training coupled with a historical and critical examination of the medium.

Game Design

The Creative Media Production (CMP) Game Design Co-major provides an interdisciplinary pathway for students to explore games as a medium for storytelling, experimentation, and interdisciplinary expression.

Graphic Design

Design ideas that people can see, feel, and use.

Product Design

Product Designers bring new manufactured objects to life.

Sound Art

The Sound Art curriculum at MICA focuses on composition, improvisation, computer music, sound installation, psycho-acoustics, soundtrack work, instrument design, sound art, and radio art, as well as critical theory and history.

Minors

American Studies

Guaranteed Liberal Arts Minor

Animation

At MICA, you can focus on traditional narrative/2D, stop-motion, or 3D animation, or combine approaches, and then dive into what best suits your creative vision.

Architectural Design

Architectural Design is a construction of relationships, spatially and materially, requiring the making (and revising) of things. It is a discovery…a search, a practice.

Book Arts

MICA's Book Arts Studio Minor is an interdisciplinary framework that allows students an opportunity to study the complexities of the book as a material object and conveyor of artistic meaning.

Ceramics

The Ceramics studio minor builds technical skills while honoring the interdisciplinary nature of your creative pursuits.

Creative Entrepreneurship

MICA’s Creative Entrepreneurship Minor: Empower Your Creative Future

Creative Writing

Creative writing has long been a core component of MICA’s undergraduate curriculum. Each year we offer several workshop-style seminars in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting, and graphic narrative.

Critical Theory

When students pick a Minor in Humanistic Studies, they also select a specialization that can help them define the shape of their self-selected Minors coursework.

Culture & Politics

When students pick a Minor in Humanistic Studies, they also select a specialization that can help them define the shape of their self-selected Minors coursework.

Curatorial Studies

The Curatorial Studies minor is offered to provide professional development opportunities that expands students' experiences, research, and knowledge in the field of museum and curatorial practice.

Drawing

The drawing minor empowers students to continue developing their understanding and skills with drawing through individualized, responsive and inter-disciplinary pathways.

English Language Studies

Guaranteed Liberal Arts Minor

Experimental Fashion

MICA's Experimental Fashion studio minor provides fiber majors a structured framework in which to explore the overlapping cultural domains of fashion, clothing, performance and costume.

Film & Video

The Film and Video Minor explores the possibilities of the moving image artform at a 200 year old art institution, where conceptualization meets technical proficiency with modern, and legacy, filmmaking tools.

Game Design

MICA’s minor in Game Design gives you the technical and artistic skills necessary to create professional interactive game experiences.

Gender Studies

When students pick a Minor in Humanistic Studies, they also select a specialization that can help them define the shape of their self-selected Minors coursework.

Global and Intercultural Exchange

Global and Intercultural Exchange (GIE) is a Liberal Arts minor that brings the coursework of Humanistic Studies and the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture into an intentional and relevant curricular experience for students who are interested in investigating their experience of living and working in a global society.

Graphic Design

Design falls within a broad spectrum of practices, impacting multiple disciplines of study. Everywhere you look, designers are utilizing countless forms of media to communicate with the world around them.

History & Politics

Guaranteed Liberal Arts Minor

History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture

MICA's curriculum in art history balances academic coursework and independent research with a significant studio component.

Illustration

The Illustration department is distinct from other departments at MICA in that it is not defined by a specific medium.

Interactive Arts

A studio minor in Interactive Arts addresses the needs and interests of students from other majors to study and develop a basic understanding of how to integrate interaction into their personal art-making practice.

Literary Studies

When students pick a Minor in Humanistic Studies, they also select a specialization that can help them define the shape of their self-selected Minors coursework.

Media, Word, Image

Guaranteed Liberal Arts Minor

Narratives and Storytelling

Guaranteed Liberal Arts Minor

Natural and Built Environment

Guaranteed Liberal Arts Minor

Painting

MICA's Painting department is ranked as one of the best in the country.

Photography

The photography studio minor recognizes those students outside the photography major who take a total of 15-18 credits within the Photography Department.

Printmaking

MICA's Printmaking department offers a broad range of studio experiences, from traditional to experimental, in our exceptional facilities.

Product Design

Think of all the things that we use (phones, glasses, coffee makers), that we used to use (kids toys), that we will use (assistive devices in old-age), that are used on us (medical devices, police body cameras), that we consider using (all the commercials for products we see but don't buy), or that we may never use but make us think (conceptual products in a museum gallery). All of those things were designed by a Product Designer.

Religion & Philosophy

Guaranteed Liberal Arts Minor

Sequential Art

Sequential Art is an art form that uses images placed in sequence for graphic storytelling or to convey information.

Society and Culture

Guaranteed Liberal Arts Minor

Sound Art

MICA's studio minor in Sound Art provides an in-depth grounding in sound as an expressive medium.

Undergraduate Programs