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This Parsons program offers students a rigorous pre-professional design education that incorporates collaboration, research, and critical thinking. Students develop expertise in spatial, digital, ecological, and material design through a curriculum that explores the design process from modeling to material construction. 

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This three-year NAAB-accredited program combines contemporary studio practice with the study of design history and theory, technology, and representation. Students are encouraged to experiment with the logic of building in diverse cultural and environmental contexts. Graduates typically open their own practices or join prominent firms or design and planning organizations worldwide.

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This unique four-year graduate program combines Parsons' NAAB-accredited MArch with an MFA in Lighting Design. Graduates typically open their own architecture or interior design studios, join prominent international design firms, or go to work for engineering or specialty lighting companies and lighting manufacturers.

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Students in this program focus on typography and interaction and explore industry-specific areas of study such as information design, branding, editorial, motion graphics, type design, or Web/mobile product design. They learn to create and share compelling messages from concept stage to final form while exploring the social and environmental dimensions of communication.

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People interested in launching careers as designers, art directors, and illustrators master the concepts and craft of communication design in this two-year program. Coursework incorporates real-world practices, including online and multimedia applications, interactive design, typography, page layout, and publishing applications. The faculty, which consists of accomplished working designers, offers students guidance for achieving success in the industry.

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This one-year, 30-credit program, with a concentration in Digital Product Design, combines instruction in advanced interaction design with coursework that develops your user-experience, design-thinking, and collaboration abilities. You graduate with industry-ready conceptual and front-end development skills and a network of design professionals to help you enter or advance in a rapidly growing field.

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This master's degree program brings together design, statistics, and computer science, giving you the skills you need to be competitive in a data-driven world. You acquire the creative and analytic competencies needed for data visualization and the understanding necessary to combine visual design, digital technologies, and quantitative reasoning. You graduate with the ability to build digital tools that reflect an understanding of data analysis and visualization for varied applications.

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Students in this studio-based graduate program investigate visual, interactive, and narrative aspects of design technology, with an emphasis on software programming and computation. The curriculum draws on history, politics, economics, psychology, ergonomics, and other disciplines. Typical projects involve interaction design, game design, digital fabrication, Web and mobile apps, and new media art, data visualization, and critical design.

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This studio-based graduate program radically reframes the study of cities. Students gain a broad understanding of the economic, political, social, environmental, and physical forces influencing urban growth and develop strategic proposals for more cohesive and socially responsible urban development.

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This program focuses on emerging art and design practices, media storytelling, and interaction technologies. Courses, internships, and collaborations with external partners emphasize the ways in which media and technology drive and are driven by social and cultural change.

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The new BFA in Design History and Practice engages both practice and theory in the study of art and design. In this one-of-a-kind program, students learn about the past, present, and future of art and design through text-based and material analysis, in studio and seminar classes.

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This program — offered both in Paris and in New York City — develops students' design-thinking and creative problem-solving strategies as they explore form, silhouette, material, and process. Students create innovative, sustainable, ethically made, and beautiful fashion for global markets. Graduates work with the industry's leading labels; many establish their own businesses.

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This program, intended for career changers, offers instruction in the processes, skills, and language of fashion design. Students move from concept to production, learning drawing, draping, patternmaking, sewing, tailoring, haute couture, and specialty techniques. Graduates bring fresh perspectives to the industry's established firms and frequently launch their own collections.

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This studio-based graduate program prepares designers to face the challenges of today's fashion industry. The curriculum is aimed at educating designers to be sophisticated entrepreneurs, educators, and engaged global citizens. Connections with the international design community and industry partners prepare students for a broad range of careers.

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The Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Fashion Management is designed for students who want to advance and transform their careers in the evolving fashion business landscape. This one-year program consists of a series of intensive course modules in which students learn to combine creativity and commerce to become tomorrow’s fashion business leaders. Students can complete the program in person in New York City or online from anywhere in the world while benefiting from the networks and leaders of the New York City fashion industry.

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This two-year program prepares students for careers in the fashion business. Curricula cover fashion history, textiles, and color theory as well as principles of product development and merchandising.

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In this groundbreaking research-based program — offered in New York City and at Parsons Paris — fashion is studied as object, image, text, practice, theory, and concept. Students develop a critical understanding of its connections to personal and social identity and to world history and culture.

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Parsons' Fine Arts program prepares young artists to make an original contribution to our visual culture. Students explore color, form, space, and composition, but curricula also emphasize aesthetic inquiry, interdisciplinary approaches to creating artwork, and social engagement. Students interact at many levels with the New York City and international art world.

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Students in Parsons' MFA in Fine Arts develop the formal, intellectual, and conceptual aspects of their art and acquire the professional knowledge and experience necessary to make a career as a visual artist. The curriculum combines studio, theory, and professional practice classes for students working in a wide range of media, such as performance, sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, installation, and video. Students have access to a variety of exhibition venues in New York City and to fellowships and residencies through faculty and institutional networks.

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This master's degree is offered in New York City and at the Parsons Paris campus. In either city, students work directly with museum staff and collections of major decorative arts and design institutions. The NYC-based program is jointly administered with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, which is devoted to the study of curatorial practice and decorative arts and design from the Renaissance to the present. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs is the program's Paris partner. Students can also spend a semester or a year studying at the other campus, taking advantage of the resources of another cultural capital.

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Students in this program develop their ability to express ideas and emotions visually in both traditional and emerging media. In addition to working in the studio, students explore art and design history and theory and develop awareness of social and cultural influences on visual art.

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This innovative graduate program prepares designers to negotiate the seemingly contradictory forces at play at all scales of the growing field of product design and making. You critically engage with issues such as economical production and sustainability, consumerism and social and environmental betterment, and global and local production, investigating ways to integrate these considerations and improve industry, human life, and the planet.

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This flexible student-driven program is built around thematic core studio courses and labs in four areas of study: Sustainability, Service Design, Fashion, and the Urban. The curriculum emphasizes collaboration with external partners (e.g., CARE, the United Nations, and JPMorgan Chase). Graduates launch institutional or entrepreneurial design careers in fields related to their specializations or go on to advanced study.

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A leader in interior design education, Parsons takes a research-oriented approach to the creation of physical spaces. Students work in small groups designing a range of interiors. Graduates are prepared to enter established design and architecture studios, open their own design practices, and work as designers and consultants with public and private institutions.

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This pre-professional curriculum is aimed at career changers. Students explore design concepts for residential, institutional, and commercial interiors and acquire skills in computer rendering and knowledge of sustainable design and materials. The program offers students opportunities to intern at prominent firms and undertake projects with external partners.

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Students in this graduate studio program incorporate sustainable design practices and enhanced building performance into innovative designs that consider the relationship of human perception and factors to the built interior. Graduates go on to work in established design and architecture studios, develop new design practices, serve as institutional consultants, and teach the next generation of practitioners.

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This master's program explores theory and technical applications in the design of natural and artificial lighting, with attention to social and environmental factors such as energy conservation.

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Aspiring professional photographers develop technical and conceptual skills as they explore analog and digital technologies. Students focus on fine art, fashion, commercial, or editorial photography and benefit from opportunities to take part in exhibitions, studio visits, and projects with international collaborators. Parsons connects the craft of photography with design, fine art, and film and video.

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The graduate program in Photography is a 21st-century think tank that reflects the evolving role of photography in contemporary media. Students develop an individual vision in a collaborative interdisciplinary environment and master the language of photography and the technology driving it. Faculty and institutional networks help students make valuable connections in their fields.

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In this program, students explore materials, fabrication, aesthetics, and social engagement, cultivating the technical and intellectual skills to design products such as toys, medical devices, and furniture and to understand global manufacturing. Curricula address sustainability and technological change as challenges facing product designers today.

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This program — offered both in Paris and in New York City — immerses students in the entrepreneurial and management side of design and the design aspects of business. The interdisciplinary curriculum brings design studio courses and seminars together with a liberal arts foundation. Learning is shaped by collaborative projects integrating design-led research and applied work to foster innovation.

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This rigorous industry-focused program prepares managers to launch and lead design process–driven organizations in the complex global economy. The curriculum combines business seminars and design courses. It can be completed either online or on campus in New York City. Graduates launch careers in industries in which sustainability management, business innovation, and design thinking are emphasized.

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Academically rigorous and industry-focused, the Master of Science in Strategic Design for Global Leadership is specially designed for experienced working professionals and entrepreneurs eager to transform their approach to business. The flexible 18-month program combines online learning with on-site intensives in Paris, New York, and Asia and culminates in a Master of Science degree from Parsons School of Design in New York.

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This graduate program invites makers, designers, and scholars to explore a range of textiles—from locally crafted materials to 3D printed matter to embellished fabrics—and engage with textile-based industries and theory. You graduate prepared for the growing array of creative, technological, and professional opportunities related to textiles.

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The Master in Fine Arts program, based at our New York City campus, welcomes practitioners from diverse backgrounds and career stages to reflect on and expand their practice. Rooted in a transdisciplinary approach, it fosters engagement across disciplines, supporting students in articulating their work’s contributions and exploring new courses of action. Students develop skills in convening, imagining, translating, and representing within a collaborative environment that extends beyond any single medium or methodology.

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