1300 Mount Royal Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21217

Founded in 1826, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is the oldest, fully accredited, degree granting art college in the country. Many students entering MICA have been recognized for their artistic achievements through national awards and scholarships. Students have strong academic backgrounds and impressive visual art portfolios.

Maryland Institute College of Art students receive instruction and mentoring from art and design faculty with renowned and award-winning artistic achievements. Faculty exhibits are displayed nationally, regionally and internationally in major public and private collections and they are regularly published on a variety of subjects. Faculty design museum exhibits, illustrations in national magazines, work with software companies, complete commissioned public art, and win reputable design competitions.

The curriculum offers bachelor's in Art History, Ceramics, Drawing, Environmental Design, Experimental Animation, Fiber, General fine arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interactive Media, Interdisciplinary Sculpture, Painting, photography, Printmaking and Video. There are BFA/MA dual degree programs in Teaching and Digital Arts and Master of Art degrees in Community Arts, Digital Arts, Art Education and Teaching as well as Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, Studio Art, and Photography and Digital Imaging. Other graduate Fine Arts programs include the Hoffberger School of Painting, Mount Royal School of Art and Rinehart School of Sculpture.

Quick Facts

Maryland Institute College of Art enrollment frequently includes students that have been ART Presidential Scholars, Scholastic Art Gold Portfolio Winners, and have been awarded the Marie Walsh Sharpe scholarship.

The faculty consists of over 275 professional artists, designers, poets, writers, and art historians holding degrees from Yale, Harvard, UCLA, Cooper Union, and other distinguished colleges and universities.

Most of the faculty has worked in public and private collections, as a whole have won national prizes for artists, which include Fulbright, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Prix de Rome, Anonymous was a Woman, and the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant."

Maryland Institute College of Art welcomes more than 175 visiting artists, critics, designers, poets, writers, and art historians every year.

Maryland Institute College of Art has a diverse student body with students from 48 states and 53 countries. Twenty-two percent are minorities and international students.

Thirty percent of the students attended private high schools, 15% attended arts magnet high schools and 55% are from public high schools.

The college has more than 1600 undergraduates and more than 200 graduate students. Sixty six percent are female and 33% are men. Ninety-nine percent of the student body attends full time. Ninely-seven percent are traditional college age and 85% are residential.

Students have a variety of off campus study options through the New York Studio Program, academic exchange programs with John Hopkins University, four Baltimore colleges and 20 art schools, study abroad programs, and MICA in Tribeca: New York Summer Intensive.

MICA's endowment is $51 million with an annual fund of $1.7 million. The college has received national support from National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford-Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, The Starr Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, J Paul Getty Trust and a host of other foundations and trusts.

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