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Undergraduate Programs

BFA Degrees

PCA&D offers four-year degree programs that pair a creatively focused liberal arts education with professional studio art training.

Which Major inspires you?

BA Degree

PCA&D offers a four-year Bachelor of Arts Degree in Design Thinking. This degree prepares you to become a strategic leader and design thinker in arts industries. 

AA Degrees

Our Associate of Arts Degree is a two-year program with two disciplines to choose from. 

Non-Major Coursework

Liberal Arts

A third of your time at PCA&D will be filled with learning the history and current context surrounding the industry you’re studying. All liberal arts courses are led with a focus on creative thinking to round out your education with the skills you’ll need to succeed beyond the studio: critical thinking, problem solving, researching, verbal and written communication, and more.

Foundation Year

All incoming students have to establish a base of fundamental drawing, software, and design skills to find success in their future chosen major. At PCA&D, this is called Foundation Year. This communal first-year experience allows you to connect with your new peers and prepares you to meet faculty expectations moving forward. Best of all – it gives you a risk-free, productive opportunity to experiment with different media and techniques in a professional setting before officially declaring your major in the spring!

Add a Minor

PCA&D offers minor programs in a still-growing range of topics to customize your major to fit your interests or career plans. Can’t decide between two majors? You don’t have to! A minor is available in each of our major areas of study.

  • Animation & Game Art
  • Art History & Visual Culture
  • Business In Creative Industry
  • Creative Writing
  • Esports Management
  • Illustration 
  • Fashion Merchandising
  • Fine Art
  • General Humanities
  • Graphic Design
  • Live Experience Design & Production 
  • Photography & Video
  • Literature

18 credit hours are required to complete each minor

Earn a Certificate

Whether you want to enhance your marketability, gain new skills for a job or promotion, take a completely new track for a career change, or begin a larger degree at a different pace, our credit-bearing Undergraduate Certificates can help you achieve your goals.

PCA&D’s Undergraduate Certificate programs, nested in the BFA curriculum, offer specialized education and training in fields that require specific skill sets. Depending on the program, you can achieve a certificate in four to eight classes.

Undergraduate Certificates of 16 credits or more are eligible for Financial Aid!

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PCAD Dual Enrollment

High School Dual Enrollment

PCA&D provides a wide range of continuing adult professional education programs that will help you start, change, or advance your career in a variety of fields.

Make your creative life, a way of life

Make your creative life,
a way of life

Submit An Application

Even if you’re still deciding on a school, start an application or submit your portfolio. Let us get to know you without any commitment.  

Add a Minor

PCA&D offers minor programs in a still-growing range of topics to customize your major to fit your interests or career plans. Can’t decide between two majors? You don’t have to! A minor is available in each of our major areas of study.

18 credit hours are required to complete each minor

  • Animation & Game Art
  • Art History & Visual Culture
  • Business In Creative Industry
  • Creative Writing
  • Esports Management
  • Illustration 
  • Fashion Merchandising
  • Fine Art
  • General Humanities
  • Graphic Design
  • Live Experience Design & Production 
  • Photography & Video
  • Literature