• Masters of Fine Arts in Art and Science at the University of Alberta allows students to complete this course in 2 years.
  • This program is a flexible, practice-based program that offers students opportunities to develop a media-based studio practice, as well as to work across multiple media.
  • Students work with faculty versed in artistic-research methodologies and draw on expertise from across the university for interdisciplinary experiences.
  • Students will develop a level of proficiency, self-direction, and focus through investigating a proposed area of research, and will be encouraged to produce work of an original and speculative nature.
  • In the first year, the coordinator in the area of specialization is the supervisor for the MFA student and is responsible for assigning the grade for studio research work.
  • In the second year, students work closely with a thesis supervisor.
  • The University of Alberta ranks among the top 150 research universities worldwide and remains in the top five in Canada in the latest QS World University rankings report.
  • The University of Alberta gives more than $500 million in annual research funding.