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Master of Design
NSCAD University

Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

The Master of Design (MDes) is an interdisciplinary, two-year, 60-credit program. The MDes program prepares students to lead the development of new ideas in design, providing them with a competitive edge in securing forward-looking careers by giving them the opportunity to work with a variety of materials and fabrication processes, under the mentorship of design faculty.

The MDes curriculum develops and expands design domains to include the full breadth of modern problems and how they might be solved. The advantage of the NSCAD University Master of Design is that it offers both studio and classroom courses throughout the duration of the program, allowing students to apply in our studios and workshop facilities the concepts and theories they learn and develop in seminars and classrooms.

 

For more information:


- Graduate admissions

- NSCAD Academic Catalogue

- International applicants

- Program page

OUR CAMPUSES
NSCAD University offers a rigorous, interdisciplinary educational experience that is unlike any other art school in the country. For 132 years, our students, faculty, and administrators have shared a commitment to experimentation, progressive thinking, and cutting-edge art and design. Many students report that their time here completely shaped the way they think not only about art, but about the world around them. It changed their lives. It will change yours too.
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ACADEMY CAMPUS
The Academy Campus is located in a Gothic Revival brick building built in 1878 as a high school. The Academy Campus is home to Media Arts, and is home to specialty facilities including edit suites, sound recording facilities, screening rooms, animation studios, and studio space. Rentable equipment is also available - video and audio production from analog (8mm and 16mm film, VHS and cassette recording) to brand new, state-of-the-art technology (motion capture, virtual reality, 3D printing, and much much more! 
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FOUNTAIN CAMPUS
A National Historic Site of Canada, the Fountain Campus encompasses an entire city block–19 adjoining commercial buildings, with shops at street level and studios and classrooms above. The Fountain Campus is home to the Anna Leonowens Gallery and Art Bar + Projects, our own NSCAD Art Supply Store, as well as studios for painting, printmaking, drawing, weaving, dyeing, fashion, photography, jewellery, and metalsmithing.

 
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PORT CAMPUS
Perched on Halifax’s waterfront and boasting uninterrupted views of the harbour from its glass curtain seawall, the Port Campus is a renovated historic warehouse repurposed specifcally for art education and production. The  campus houses Foundation year classes, as well as the school’s more industrial art, design, and craft practices, with wood and metal fabrication shops, sculpture studio, plastics lab, and foundry. The Port Loggia Gallery and Treaty Space Gallery, on the first floor, expands NSCAD's exhibition programming.

WHERE OUR GRADUATES WORK

NSCAD University is in Mi’kma’ki on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq Nation. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.
 
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