Whois & Analysis for mcad.edu

The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) is a private, nonprofit four-year and postgraduate college specializing in the visual arts.

Located in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, MCAD currently enrolls more than 700 students offering education in painting, drawing, animation, entrepreneurial studies, sculpture, printmaking, papermaking, photography, filmmaking, illustration, graphic design, book arts, furniture design, liberal arts, comic art, web design, and sustainable design.

MCAD is one of just a few major art schools to offer a major in comic art.

Visual arts education is the area of learning that is based upon only the kind of art that one can see, visual arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc.

and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings.

Contemporary topics include photography, video, film, design, and computer art.

Art education may focus on students creating art, on learning to criticize or appreciate art, or some combination of the two.

A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA, B.F.A) is the standard undergraduate degree for students in the United States and Canada seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts.

A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A) is a graduate degree that typically requires two to three years of postgraduate study after a bachelor's degree (Bachelor of Fine Arts), though the term of study varies by country or university.

The MFA is a creative degree usually awarded as a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts—or in some cases, theatre management or arts administration.

Coursework is primarily of an applied or performing nature with the program often culminating in a major work or performance.

A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

In some institutions and educational systems, some bachelor's degrees can only be taken as graduate or postgraduate degrees after a first degree has been completed.

In countries with qualifications frameworks, bachelor's degrees are normally one of the major levels in the framework (sometimes two levels where non-honours and honours bachelor's degrees are considered separately), although some qualifications titled bachelor's degrees may be at other levels (e.g. MBBS) and some qualifications with non-bachelor's titles may be classified as bachelor's degrees (e.g. the Scottish MA and Canadian MD).