Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB), Norway
Application deadline: March 1, 2016
Programme start: August

The MA programme in Design is a two-year full-time programme comprising four semesters. 26 students are accepted each year, the programme is taught in English, and there are no tuition fees. The MA project can be formulated and developed within the subject areas of Visual communication and Furniture and Spatial design/Interior Architecture.

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

The CCC Research-Based Master program addresses students interested in developing new vocabularies for articulating the political and social implications of a changing 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.

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.

The London Doctoral Design Centre, UK
Apply by February 7, 2016

Candidates will be interested to pursue innovative research in all areas of Design offered by the three partner institutions: the Royal College of Art, Kingston University and University of the Arts London.