FIU Graduate Admission Application:

First, please complete and FIU Graduate Application form that can be completed online via the following link: https://admissions.fiu.edu/how-to-apply/graduate-applicant/index.html. As part of this application, you will need to provide the following:

1. Successful completion of a bachelor’s degree. For MFA in Visual Arts admissions, the portfolio of work is the most crucial part of the application. The Department of Art and Art History invites all applicants who feel they have strong portfolios to apply.
2. Certified transcripts of all college level work;
3. Three (3) letters of recommendation from persons who are in a position to evaluate the applicant’s previous professional, academic, and personal performance, and potential for success in the graduate program;
4. For international and foreign graduated domestic applicants whose language of instruction for the undergraduate degree was not English, an IELTS score of 6.5 or TEOFL score of 550 paper-based/80 internet-based is required; and
5. Please note that the Department of Art + Art History does not require GRE test scores.

Next, please upload the following to Get Accepted (separate nominal fee charged by Get Accepted): https://app.getacceptd.com/fiuart

1. A written statement of intent (no more than 500 words), which should enhance the Graduate Admissions Committee’s understanding of the applicant’s creative work. The candidate should outline their goals, ambitions, and reasons for pursuing graduate study at FIU.

2. Your Curriculum Vitae (CV)

3. A portfolio of 20 artwork that can include:

o Images must be submitted as .jpg at the highest available quality while remaining under 8 MB each

o Videos: excerpts or preferably complete works (max. 10 minutes total runtime). Videos should be uploaded and hosted on YouTube as an ‘unlisted’ video and shared through url link

o Audio: excerpts or preferably complete works submitted as .mp3 (max. 10 minutes total runtime). Each individual file should be less than 30 MB.

4. An image list that gives the following information for each piece included in your portfolio:

Title, Media, Dimensions (Height x width x depth) and year created, along with the corresponding file name.