Bachelor of Fine Arts - Art - Studio

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree is considered the professional undergraduate degree in art and design. The program is more intensive than a BA program, and emphasizes both breadth and depth of experience in the visual arts. BFA graduates benefit from learning professional practices and synthesizing work in a culminating exhibition in the Gallery of Art.

Many BFA graduates continue their careers in art by becoming professional artists and pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts degree. Former BFA students have gone on to graduate programs at such prestigious schools as Yale, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Cranbrook Academy, Columbia University, California Institute of the Arts and the Rhode Island School of Design.

As BFA students, they get to enroll in the BFA Seminar, which covers exciting current topics in the field, and as a senior, they get their own studio space to work in while they get ready for their senior exhibition in the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art.