Visual Arts - Bachelor [4 Years]
$67,779 /Yr On-campus full_time

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] Visual Arts

  • The University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts offers a four years undergraduate degree in Visual Arts which is concerned with the making of art as a vehicle for exploring creativity, expression, perception, and the constructed world.
  • Students develop communicative, analytical, and expressive skills through the process of artistic production.
  • Graduates learn about visual communication through the manipulation of various traditional and non-art materials.
  • ll of college Visual Arts teaching underscores the fact that perception involves the complex interaction of the senses and the intellect as reflected in art and in our understanding of the larger visual world.
  • Teaching students to see critically through making images is as integral to our practice as textual analysis is central to academic practice.
  • College course of study develops a powerful set of means which allows students to become sensitive and consciously aware of phenomena such as the relative nature of color; the particular measure of space - both real and illusionistic; and the ways in which our perceptual experiences give meaning to forms in the visual field.
  • As these means are acquired, the visual world fuses with the world of ideas, becoming a site of aesthetic pleasure, philosophical inquiry, social critique, political activism, and psychological understanding.

Tution & Application Fees

Year Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Tuition Fees $61179 $61179 $61179 $61179
Health Insurance $4800 $4800 $4800 $4800
Books and supply $1800 $1800 $1800 $1800
Total Fees $67779 $67779 $67779 $67779

Examinations

Exam Type Exam Name Score Out of Score Exam Level
TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language 100 120 3
IELTS International English Language Testing System 7.0 9 3
PTE Pearson Test of English 54 90 3

Academic Eligibility:

  • Students must have a high school degree from a recognized institution.
  • Students are recommended to study the following below courses:
    • 4 years of English
    • 3–4 years of math (through pre-calculus recommended)
    • 3–4 years of laboratory sciences
    • 3 or more years of social sciences
    • Foreign language study (2-3 years recommended)

Indian Students Eligibility:

  • Students must have passed 12th grade from a recognized institution.

Along with the minimum eligibility requirements, international students hailing from non-English speaking countries need to prove English proficiency through IELTS/TOEFL/any equivalent test.