The award, offered by the National Association of Art and Design of USA, confirmed that the educational programs of all the degrees, are at the same level as the best Design and Art education institutions in the world.

ArtCenter College of Design, USA
Priority application deadline: February 1, 2016

ArtCenter’s two-year Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation.

Master in Design (Milan, Rome)
Master in Car Interior Design and User Experience (Turin)
Applications are open! Apply by January 29, 2016

Starting from next February 2016, IED Istituto Europeo di Design, will launch 3 new Master’s Degrees in the field of Design, to broaden skill and enhanced career opportunities for students willing to undertake a professional and intense training program.

UQAM School of Design, Canada
Apply by February 26, 2016

The Environmental design program is a unique educational project in North America that focuses on an integrated approach to design, linking the scales of the object, architecture and urban design.

UTS, Sydney, Australia
Apply by January 17, 2016

UTS Design and Innovation Research Center, Australia is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to develop a design-based methodology for mapping innovation capacity (within a sector/network/ecosystem), advise on experimental interventions to boost that capacity and capture research data from participants on evidence of success and the effectiveness of these interventions.

Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD), Switzerland
Application deadline: April 8, 2016

Trans—, a Master’s program in Visual Arts at HEAD—Genève, encourages and develops practices that question the relationships between art and society. Within this new framework, transpedagogy—blending art and education in order to create innovative forms of knowledge production and exchange—is taught and applied.

Central Saint Martins (CSM), University of the Arts London, UK
Open days: February 17, 2016
Ongoing application

MA Culture, Criticism and Curation offers a unique framework for critically engaging with the history and present scenarios of culture. We create outcomes through which new understandings can be generated through critical writing and expanded forms of curation.

School of Visual Arts (SVA), NYC, USA
Early decision deadline: February 1, 2016

Situated in the heart of New York City and at the intersection of words and images, the Art Writing MFA program at SVA offers students the opportunity to bring their language into a complex meeting with the visual arts and the ideas that inform it.

ArtCenter College of Design, USA
Apply by February 1, 2016

Interdisciplinary design and technology MFA with two tracks, Lab+Field. This interdisciplinary MFA is grounded in media—graphic, visual, interactive, spatial, experiential—and technology.

The Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA), Lebanon
Registration deadline for the Spring semester: January 8, 2015

The School of Visual Arts offers a new programme that stresses the relation of art and thought, more specifically of art-provoking thought and thought-provoking art.