Graduate Admissions
The UT College of Fine Arts’ graduate programs offer innovative programs in the arts and design, with exceptional masters and doctoral studies in a variety of disciplines. Alongside our award-winning faculty, our students are expanding approaches to investigations in the arts and design. We’re preparing our graduate students to build careers in a 21st-century creative economy and step up as leaders in their respective disciplines. Our alumni’s professional pathways take them all over the world, both in academia and beyond.
All Graduate Admissions applications are processed through the Graduate School.
By the Numbers
*These demographics reflect enrollments for the 2023-24 academic year.
Interdisciplinary Opportunities
Brimming with nearly 52,000 students — including more than 12,000 graduate students — and 3,000 faculty members, campus life at UT Austin is just as dynamic and diverse as the people who live, work and learn here. The University of Texas at Austin is one of the world’s leading research universities, supporting cutting-edge research in all disciplines and offering more than 200 dedicated research units and centers, ranging from the Texas Advanced Computing Center to the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. Fine Arts graduate students can take classes to enhance their research and creative practice and have endless opportunities for interdisciplinarity in their pursuits.
Campus Life
As a graduate student, you can choose from an array of events and activities from all corners of the Forty Acres. Campus offers a culturally rich and creative environment where students can use valuable research resources like the Fine Arts Library and engage with cultural archives at the Harry Ransom Center and Briscoe Center for American History and experience visual art in the Blanton Museum, Visual Arts Center and Art Galleries at Black Studies. Texas Performing Arts, our hub for world-class live performance and visiting artists, offers $10 student tickets and exclusive access to their programming through their Bass Pass student membership program.
Landmarks, the university’s public art program, offers more than 50 works of modern and contemporary art throughout the 433-acre campus that are viewed by thousands of people every day.
Living in Austin
Austin is consistently ranked as one of the top places to live in the nation. Blending all the amenities of a major city with the green space of a small town, Austin is a culturally rich artistic enclave and city of live performance with endless opportunities to catch music, theatre, visual arts and more in the community.
Alumni Outcomes
Graduates of our programs have excellent career outcomes, and our alumni work in renowned universities, museums and other arts spaces all over the world. You can explore some of our alumni outcomes, which we track through the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project.