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MICA is a creative powerhouse for lifelong learners, offering flexible, outcome-focused pathways designed to fit your goals and schedule.

Whether you’re expanding your skills, exploring new tools, or pursuing a professional degree to pivot or advance your career, you’ll find programs that combine credibility, creativity, and real-world relevance.

Explore your next steps below.

OBTAIN YOUR PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS ADVANCED DEGREES

Degree Offerings are open

MICA’s flexible online graduate programs are designed for creative professionals ready to lead, innovate, and grow. Whether you're deepening your expertise or exploring new territory, you can choose from a range of fully online options—including Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) degrees, stackable certificates, and the MA/MBA in Design Leadership.

Each program offers intensive, real-world learning guided by industry-leading faculty, blending creative thinking with strategic skill-building. Courses and credentials are designed to be modular: take a single course to sharpen your skills, stack multiple certificates toward a credential, or build your pathway to a full graduate degree.

Accelerate Your Career

Master an array of information visualization practices by employing qualitative and quantitative analysis and applying storytelling methods to data and information, and utilizing design strategies to develop a visual narrative.

Explore both the design and technical sides of user-experience, while mastering the analytical, problem-solving, and design thinking skills required in today’s tech-focused marketplace.

The online Master of Professional Studies in Business for Creatives is designed to accomplish that goal, empowering artists, designers and innovators to successfully launch and grow a creative career.

Now offering new MPS degrees in

Brand & Luxury Management Track
Entrepreneurship & Venture
Leadership & Strategy

Coming Spring 2026

Luxury Goods
Global Fashion & Apparel
Digital Innovation & AI

Earn two graduate degrees from two top-ranked institutions — an MBA from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and an MA in Design Leadership from MICA — in less time and for less cost. This unique dual-degree program is the only one in the U.S. that combines a leading business school with a premier art and design college. You'll graduate equipped to lead with both strategic insight and creative vision

Your Journey Starts Now

Receive information about the benefits of our MPS and MA/MBA programs, the courses you'll take, and what you need to apply. Schedule a call with a counselor today.

Make Creativity Your Career Move.

Master creative approaches to strategic decision-making while also learning how to apply these skills to complex management challenges and business opportunities.

Meet Our Faculty

Learn from Industry Leaders Who Practice What They Teach. At MICA, our degree programs are taught by accomplished professionals who are actively shaping their fields. As part-time faculty, they bring real-world experience directly into the virtual classroom — sharing current practices, tools, and insights that keep your learning relevant and applied.

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Enroll in THE PROFESSIONAL STUDIOs

The Professional Studio Offerings are open

Our Professional Studios offer convenient learning options for curious creatives, professionals, and degree-seekers. Below are the current offerings with the ability to enroll and learn more. Explore your creative instincts and refine your craft.

At MICA Open Studies, imagination meets real-world impact. Whether you're looking to upskill, pivot careers, or explore your creative side, our non-degree courses, workshops, credentials and certificates empower you with the tools and mindsets that drive innovation. Learn design thinking, sharpen your creative problem-solving skills, and master industry-standard tools in fields like graphic design and AI – all taught by working professionals who understand the evolving creative landscape.

These credentials offer an accelerated pathway, allowing students to complete all required coursework within 8 months through continuous enrollment. Courses will be provided in a flexible, asynchronous format to accommodate working professionals and other busy students. These programs are designed for those seeking to advance their careers in high-demand fields and respond to strong market trends and interest from prospective students.

Offering Credentials in

Data Analytics & Visualization
UX Deign
Business for Creatives
Applied: Portrait Photography
Game Educator Pro
Branding: Packaging Craft and Sensory Identity

Coming Fall 2026

Credential - Digital Culinary Arts
Micro-credential - Applied: Portrait Photography
Micro-credential - Game Educator Pro
Micro-credential - Branding Packaging Craft and Sensory Identity

A certificate is a focused, skill-building program that you can complete on your schedule. It demonstrates your mastery of a specific subject or practice area—perfect for expanding your portfolio or standing out in the job market. Connect with one of our Advisors to learn more.

Coming Fall 2026

Digital Culinary Arts

Coming Spring 2026

Design Essentials
Design Business
Design Strategy

Expand Your Career Skills

Advance your professional skills, pivot your career, or pursue competitive graduate degrees while building valuable creative connections for future collaborations. Our non-degree Professional Practice offerings are taught by industry experts and structured to make MICA’s rigorous art and design instruction accessible to working adults.

Credential vs. Certificates

Build Your Path, Your Way

Looking to sharpen your skills, pivot careers, or work toward a graduate degree? Our certificate and credential programs are designed to meet you where you are—and take you where you want to go. These learning experiences are modular and stackable. Take them independently or combine them as building blocks toward a larger credential or a professional graduate degree, such as a Master of Professional Studies (MPS). You’ll gain immediate value—and long-term opportunity.

Meet Our Faculty

MICA Open Studies Professional Studios are led by working artists and designers who bring their real-world experience into the classroom. As part-time faculty actively engaged in their fields, they offer practical insights, current industry knowledge, and mentorship that bridges learning with lived creative practice. Whether you're taking a workshop, course, or pursuing a certificate, you'll be learning from professionals who know what it takes to thrive creatively and professionally.