Cranbrook Academy of Art is the nation’s top-ranked school devoted exclusively to graduate education in art, architecture, craft, and design. Each year, more than 100 self-motivated students come together to form an artistic community in which each individual develops with the mentorship of renowned Artists-in-Residence.

Interested in applying for a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) or Master of Architecture (M.Arch) at Cranbrook? Learn about how to apply, deadlines, tuition, and more.

Cranbrook Academy of Art is part of the larger Cranbrook Educational Community, a 319-acre campus that also includes a contemporary art museum, science museum, and a PreK-12 college-preparatory school. Founded by George Gough Booth and his wife Ellen Scripps Booth, the Booths looked to model the Academy after the American Academy of Art in Rome.

Cranbrook’s MFA/MArch full-time, two-year program is studio critique-based and focused on the creative act of making. Theory serves as a conceptual tool, but in the end, it is the connection between idea and form that matters most.

Cranbrook Academy of Art is the country's only school devoted exclusively to graduate education in art, architecture, and design. Like real life, graduate study at the Academy is self-directed and relatively unscripted. And yet, students are guided, supported, and …

The 11 departments shape the rhythm of the Academy. In many ways, each department is its own unit, with an individualized calendar of activities, a roster of guest artists and critics, travel opportunities, departmental reading and discussion groups, and other special projects.

The Cranbrook Academy Painting Department studies contemporary painting art in traditional and contemporary mediums. Art museum visits and critiques are included.

Cranbrook Academy of Art offers graduate students a supportive, self-directed art school program to learn and grow in the fine arts, architecture, and design.

Architecture at Cranbrook supports individually directed studio-based research in architecture, urbanism, and related forms of spatial practice. Our model is designed to support expansive approaches to the field of architecture within the interdisciplinary context of a …

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