I am looking for a comprehensive list of MFA programs in Costume
Design.
Often it is found under Theatre, Theatre Design and Technology, and
Costume Technology. I am looking primarily in the United States but
the UK also interests me given their excellent reputation for Theater.
Here are some sources that may help: USITT (United States Institute
for Theater Technology), NAST (National Association of Schools of
Theater), Petersons (the best college search engine I've found; it
lets you specify the kind of degree you are looking for (Masters) and
entering Theater brings up some programs and plenty of irrelevant
entries).
More specifically I am looking for schools with a strong technical
(vs. conceptual) bent, and I would prefer to pay under $10,000/year. 
Also I would like to be at a University or a program with regular
productions in a working theater (as opposed to Fashion school).

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Request for Question Clarification by tar_heel_v-ga on 17 Feb 2003 19:13 PST

How many schools would you consider "comprehensive"?  I have found
several well known Universities in the US that offer MFA in Costume
Design programs.

-THV

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Clarification of Question by smokey17-ga on 18 Feb 2003 06:19 PST

I would like a list of 30 schools; a list capable of launching my own research from.

Hi smokey17,

This was a fun question for me to work on, as I strongly considered
getting an MFA in Costume Design back in 1998 when I was debating what
to do with my life.  I looked at a number of the programs below – my
criteria were very similar to yours – so putting together this list
was fairly easy for me (I already knew where to look!).

Please note that not all schools give reliable tuition and fees
information.  I’ve listed the amount they display somewhere on their
websites – with a guess (in some cases) as to whether it is a
semesterly or yearly rate.  Most of these programs offer some sort of
graduate assistantship or tuition remission program for their
students.  Numbers given may also be out of date – it was hard to tell
in some cases whether the amounts were from a past year or were
projections for the future.

The list is in no particular order other than that in which I found
them.

1.	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.unc.edu/depts/playmkrs/mfa/costume/index.html
Tuition: $15,662 (out of state residents), $4,012 (in state residents)
per year

2.	Temple University
http://www.temple.edu/theater/design.html
Tuition: $582 (out of state), $402 (in state) per credit hour
(full-time is approx. 12-16 hours/year – approx $7,000 to $10,000/year
for out of state)

3.	University of Arizona School of Theatre Arts – Tucson
http://theatre.cfa.arizona.edu/students/degrees_designTech_MFA.php?quicklink=fs
Tuition: $11,114 (out of state), $2,594 (in state) per year

4.	Boston University School of Theater Arts
http://www.bu.edu/but/applicants/general/index.html
Tuition: charged on a per credit basis – they estimate $12,500 to
$13,500 per year

5.	Illinois State University
http://orathost.cfa.ilstu.edu/theatre/program/Gcostume.html
Tuition: $5,681 (out of state), $3,115 (in state) per semester

6.	Indiana University - Bloomington
http://www.indiana.edu/~thtr/costume.html
Fees (don’t appear to call anything “tuition”): $4,182 (in state),
$10,952 (out of state) per semester (?)

7.	Penn State University
http://www.theatre.psu.edu/programs/mfadesign.html
Tuition & Fees: $7,178 (in state), $14,126 (out of state) per year

8.	University of Virginia
http://www.virginia.edu/drama/Academics/Costume.html
Tuition: $3,196.50 (in state), $9,741 (out of state) per semester

9.	University of Wisconsin – Parkside
http://www.uwp.edu/academic/theatre.arts/index.html
Fees: $2438,35 (in state), $7743.35 (out of state) per semester

10.	University of Cincinnati – College Conservatory of Music
http://www.ccm.uc.edu/tdp/costume.html
Tuition: $2,698 (in state), $4,977 (out of state) per quarter

11.	Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cmu.edu/cfa/drama/design/de-gra-program.htm
Tuition: $25,000 per year

12.	New York University Tisch School of the Arts
http://www.nyu.edu/tisch/design.html
Tuition: $14,621 per semester

13.	University of Alaska – Fairbanks
http://www.uaf.edu/theatre/
Tuition: Very complicated algorithm for it:
http://www.uaf.edu/reg/schedule/expenses.html#tuition

14.	University of California – Davis
http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/programs/textart.htm
Fees: $5,037 (in state), $16,359 (out of state) per year

15.	California State University – Long Beach
http://www.calrep.org/cal_rep_mfa_theatre_design_program.htm
Tuition: Complicated.  Approx. $1,000 (instate) and $3,500 (out of
state) per semester:
http://www.csulb.edu/web/depts/enrollment/html/fees_and_charges.html#anchor1

16.	Brooklyn College
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/theater/grad_design.htm
Tuition: $2,175 (in state), $3,800 (out of state) per semester

17.	University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
http://www.uwm.edu/pttp/training_costumep.html
Tuition: $3326 (in state), $10,508 (out of state), $3,710 (Minnesota
residents)

18.	University of Iowa
http://www.uiowa.edu/~theatre/programs/design.htm
Tuition & Fees: $2,844 (in state), $7,861 (out of state) per semester

19.	University of Delaware
http://www.udel.edu/theatre/index1.html
Tuition: $2,385 (in state), $6,930 (out of state) per semester

20.	Kent State University
http://www.theatre.kent.edu/Des_Tech/MFA_Costume_Des.htm
Tuition: $3,390 (in state), $6,368 (out of state) per semester

21.	San Diego State University
http://theatre.sdsu.edu/mfa-design.htm
Tuition: $1,088 (in state), $1370 (out of state) per semester

22.	University of Hawai’i – Manoa
http://www.hawaii.edu/theatre/academic/mfa_areas.htm
Tuition: $2232 (in state), $5304 (out of state) per semester
23.	Yale University
http://www.yale.edu/drama/academics/design/index.html
Tuition: $17,800 per year

24.	University of Massachusetts – Amherst
http://www.umass.edu/theater/grad.html
Tuition & Fees: $6,753 (in state), $14,955 (out of state) per year

25.	University of Connecticut
http://www.drama.uconn.edu/Academic%20Programs/deptcost.html
Tuition & Fees: $13,758 (in state), $22,850 (out of state) per year

26.	State University of New York – Purchase College
http://www.purchase.edu/academics/taf/mfa_degree_programs.asp
Tuition: $13,864 (in state), $17,580 (out of state) per year

27.	Brandeis University
http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/theater/gdes.html
Tuition: $27,344 per year

28.	University of Idaho
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/thea/Degrees/Graduate.htm
Tuition: $1630 (in state), $4630 (out of state) per semester

29.	University of Oklahoma
http://www.ou.edu/bulletins/01catalog/HTML/drama.htm
Tuition: $2,648 (in state), $7,094 (out of state) per semester

30.	University of California – Los Angeles
http://www.tft.ucla.edu/dot_mfa/index.cfm?action=design
http://www.tft.ucla.edu/dot_mfa/index.cfm?action=costume
Tuition & Fees: $4550 (in state), $15,444 (out of state) per year

31.	Bennington College
http://www.bennington.edu/main.htm
Tuition & Fees: $15,400 per year

32.	Virginia Commonwealth University
http://www.vcu.edu/artweb/theatre/mfa/costume.html
Tuition & fees: $3,202 (in state), $7.736 (out of state) per semester

33.	Ohio State University
http://www.the.ohio-state.edu/1_academics/level_3_academics/degree/areas_mfad.htm
Tuition & fees: $5,664 (in state), $15,087 (out of state) per year




The degree programs offered in Britain seem to not follow US
conventions.  Here is a list of 40 British schools that offer some
sort of degree program in Stage Design:
http://www.theatredesign.org.uk/edu/schools.htm.

I found most of these schools by doing a variety of searches on the
Internet, including a search of the Google directory for “MFA costume
production”, of the Peterson’s website for “Master’s AND costume” and
of the NAST institutional membership list
(http://www.arts-accredit.org/nast/scripts/institute.cfm).  You will
note that, while I have listed all of the applicable schools found via
the Google and Peterson’s searches, there are a number of institutions
listed at the NAST website that I do not list above.  This is either
because they are private schools and thus outside your price range or
are very small, satellite/regional campuses of state schools and thus
don’t have as strong of a theater program as the main campus (this is
an assumption).  If you don’t find what you need in the above list, I
suggest you take a look at the one at the NAST site.  I couldn’t get
the USITT website to load – perhaps they are having server problems.

librariankt

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