Graduate Application Instructions

Fall Deadlines

Priority: March 1. Decisions released by March 15 with priority consideration for scholarship funding.

Rolling: Applications will be accepted until enrollment goals are met.

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Application Requirements

Applicants should have taken at least five (5) undergraduate courses in Art History. Applicants with fewer undergraduate art history courses will still be considered for admission. If offered admission applicants with fewer than five undergraduate art history courses may be required to take pre-requisite undergraduate courses prior to enrolling in graduate course work.

A complete online application will contain:

• A nonrefundable application fee of $80
• Completed graduate application forms
• Three letters of recommendation
• 300-500 word Personal Statement
• 1-2 writing samples, 30 pages maximum for each sample

Complete Your Application

Submit all of the following in one package:

• Official academic transcripts (in envelopes sealed by the registrar) from all colleges attended.
• TOEFL score, if required (see International Student Application Instructions)

Mail your complete package to:

Office of Admissions
Attn: Graduate Admissions
Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Rd.
Purchase, NY 10577

Your application will not be considered complete until you have submitted all required official transcripts and, if applicable, test scores to the above address.

Fall Deadline

February 1

Spring Deadline

Admission not offered

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Application Requirements

Students interested in MFA/MA option must submit separate applications to both the MFA Visual Arts program and the MA Art History MA program and must be admitted to both programs.

A complete online application will contain:

• Nonrefundable application fees for both applications
  • MFA Visual Arts: $85 nonrefundable application fee
  • MA Art History: $80 nonrefundable application fee
• Completed graduate application forms

MA Art History

• Three letters of recommendation
• Personal Statement
• 1-2 writing samples

MFA Visual Arts

• Three letters of recommendation
• Personal Statement
• Portfolio

Complete Your Application

Submit all of the following in one package:

• Official transcripts (in envelopes sealed by the registrar) from all colleges attended.
• TOEFL score, if required (see International Student Application Instructions)

Mail your complete package to:

Office of Admissions
Attn: Graduate Admissions
Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Rd.
Purchase, NY 10577

Your application will not be considered complete until you have submitted all required official transcripts and, if applicable, test scores to the above address.

Fall Deadline

Priority: May 1. 

Rolling: Applications will be accepted until August 1st or until enrollment goals are met.

Spring Deadline

Not Offered

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Application Requirements

A complete online application will contain:

• Nonrefundable application fee of $80 fee
• Completed graduate application forms
• Minimum of three letters of recommendation, no more than five
• Two written statements as follows:
  • What does entrepreneurship mean to you, particularly as it relates to arts and creativity? What is it about Purchase and this program that are designed to help you pursue this vision of creative entrepreneurship and how does it fit into your long-term career plan and goals? (500 words)
  • If you were able to build a creative enterprise from the ground up, what would it be and what would it look like? What product/service would it provide, who would the customer be, etc.? (500 words)
• Resume

Complete Your Application

Submit all of the following in one package:

• Official academic transcripts from all colleges you have attended (including community college, transfer coursework, study abroad, summer session, etc):
  Paper transcripts should be submitted in envelopes sealed by the registrar’s office of your institution. Institutions that deliver official electronic transcripts can email them to admissions@purchase.edu.
• TOEFL score, if required (see International Student Application Instructions)

Mail your complete package to:

Office of Admissions
Attn: Graduate Admissions
Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Rd.
Purchase, NY 10577

Your application will not be considered complete until you have submitted all required official transcripts and, if applicable, test scores to the above address.

Prerequisites

Applicants must have demonstrable skills in the fundamentals of accounting. If admitted without these demonstrable skills, they will need to take a basic accounting course. Admitted students need to successfully complete such a course before the first semester of enrollment in the MA (Finance for the Arts is offered in the first semester of the MA curriculum).

Fall Deadline

Application and Pre-Screening Audition Submission: January 5

We are still accepting Music applications on a rolling basis, which will be reviewed periodically by our Conservatory of Music faculty, as openings occur.

Spring Deadline

Applications and Audition Submission must be submitted online by October 21

Graduate Application

Application Requirements

A complete online application will contain:

• Application and Pre-Screening Audition Submission: $142 (plus processing fee)
• One letter of recommendation is required (no more than three should be provided)
• Details for Pre-Screening and Live Auditions

Live Online Auditions: By Invitation Only

• Spring applicants will be notified of results of their application by December 1. There are no live online auditions conducted for spring applicants.
• Fall applicants will be notified of results of pre-screening auditions by February 5.

Students selected for live online auditions will be notified by email directly from the Conservatory of Music and will be assigned a live online audition date at that time.

 

Fall Deadline

February 1

Spring Deadline

Admission not offered

Apply

Application Requirements

A complete online application will contain:

• A nonrefundable application fee of $85
• Completed graduate application forms
• Three letters of recommendation
• Personal Statement
• Portfolio

Complete Your Application

Submit all of the following in one package:

• Official academic transcripts from all colleges you have attended (including community college, transfer coursework, study abroad, summer session, etc):
  • Paper transcripts should be submitted in envelopes sealed by the registrar’s office of your institution. Institutions that deliver official electronic transcripts can email them to admissions@purchase.edu.
• TOEFL score, if required (see International Student Application Instructions)

Mail your complete package to:

Office of Admissions
Attn: Graduate Admissions
Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Rd.
Purchase, NY 10577

Your application will not be considered complete until you have submitted all required official transcripts and, if applicable, test scores to the above address.