MFA Colleges in India

Some colleges have stricter eligibility criteria for completing the BFA before admission to the MFA. But others do accept students with different bachelor's degrees, like BA, but you need to make sure you build an impressive portfolio to compensate for the lack of a relevant UG degree.

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MFA

One should have pure passion and basic skills in the chosen domain among Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Drawing & Illustration, Ceramic Art & Pottery, etc.

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MFA

For any course to be better than the other, you need to consider the curriculum you will get to study during the time course of the degree. In Fine Arts you will study intellectual or emotional expression through painting, sculpture, performing or writing. The visual arts are broader. Visual Arts covers the facets of fine arts, but also applied arts, digital media, and commercial design. Fine art is more for expression, and Visual is more for commercial gain.

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Fine Arts vs Visual Arts

In India and abroad MFA degree holders usually work in domains like design, performing arts, writing, Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Design, Photography, Film, Ceramics, Creative Writing, and Acting. You can also go for careers in art, academia, and creative industries. The scope of this degree depends on your visibility and creativity. So make sure you make an impressive portfolio.

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MFA Careers

Any caste, region, religion students can apply for admission to various courses at BHU. Any caste student must fulfill the eligibility criteria and take admission. While selection process, students are not judged basis their religion, they are judged based on their merit. Hence, any student meeting the eligibility criteria can get admission in BHU. BHU does not descriminate people on any basis.

The course curriculum for Fine Arts includes - Painting, Sculpture, Animation, Photography, Printmaking, Dance, Film/ television & Theatre/Drama.

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MFA

Yes, of course, you can check out the list of Good Private colleges in India that provide MFA in the list below:

• Amity University, Noida
• MIT-WPU
• Whistling Woods International
• LPU - Lovely Professional University
• AAFT
• SVSU - Swami Vivekanand Subharti University
• Sister Nivedita University
• Jain Deemed-to-be University, Bangalore
• Dev Bhoomi Uttarakhand University

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MFA Private Colleges in India

For admission to the BTech course, MIT-WPU, Pune accepts scores of various state/ national-level entrance exams such as JEE Main/ MHT CET/ PERA CET/ MHT CET B/ NEET UG. Hence, candidates willing to get admission to the course must appear and qualify in any one of the accepted entrance exams. For some specialisations, students may have to write a Statement of Purpose (SOP). 

Chandigarh University provides separate hostel facility to female students. The hostel fee for boys and girls are same. However, the charges may differ as per the number of students sharing one room. Find below the fee breakup around the hostel fee for girl candidates at Chandigarh University:

Accomodation Type	Non-AC Rooms (Per Annum)	AC Rooms (Per Annum)
4 Seater (for Boys & Girls)	INR 1.2 lakh	NA
3 Seater (for International Girls only)	NA	INR 1.51 lakh

Aspiring students are required to register on the official website of JMI and fill the application form online. In the form, fill all the details asked, upload the required documents and pay the application fee. Starting 2022, for BA, BSc and BVoc, JMI started accepting the scores of CUET UG. For the same, students need to register for the exam, appear for it and qualify it. Qualified students of CUET UG are required to register for JMI counselling after which merit lists will be released with the name of the shortlisted students. For the remaining courses, however, the university is still accepting national and university-level entrance exam for final selection. 

IGNOU admission cycle opens twice in a year i.e. January and July. The registrations for January session usually begins in December and close by March. The July session for ODL/ Online programmes begin in May and continue till July. The mode of application is online for all the courses.

Rabindra Bharati University is recognised by the UGC and is also accredited by the NAAC. The university offers multi-disciplinary programmes at UG, PG, and doctoral levels in diverse streams such as Education, Social Science, Languages and Arts, among others. RBU also has a Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE) that offers distance education programmes. The Salt Lake Campus (Campus III) offers these distance learning courses. 

As per the students’ reviews on the Shiksha page, 75% of the recent batch was successfully placed in reputed companies. The highest package offered during the recent Rabindra Bharati University placements stood at INR 2.16 LPA. The top recruiters who participated during Rabindra Bharati University placements included Cisco, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Wipro, ICICI Bank, TCS, Infosys, etc.

UniPune admission to a majority of PG and UG courses is based on the Online Entrance Exam (OEE) conducted by the University. The university offers MCA, MMM, Advanced Diploma, MPH, E-MBA, LLM and M.Lib.I.Sc, among others. Admission to a few courses is completely based on merit in the previous qualifying exam. The university also accepts MAH CET, MAH MCA MET,  CMAT/ CAT/ ATMA and other exams for admission to a number of courses offered at its campus or its affiliated colleges. 

Yes Amity University in Mumbai offers direct admission. Students who have earned marks of more than 80% in class XII from CBSE, ISC, or State Board are eligible for direct admission. Student must complete Amity application and send in application money in order to apply for direct admission.

To check the RTMNU cutoff 2026 go to university website that is nagpuruniversity.ac.in or affiliated college websites for merit lists which is usually released after 10+2 or qualifying exam results. For specific courses students can check admission notices or the state common entrance test like MHT CET portals for cutoffs. 

LPU top courses include BTech and MBA. Other than this, the university offer courses in Design, Arts, Animation, Nursing, etc. The popular LPU courses along with eligibility and selection details are mentioned below:

Course Name	Common Eligibility & Selection Criteria
BTech	Eligibility: Class 12 with Physics, Mathematics and English or equivalent as compulsory subjects from a recognised board with 60% marks Class 12 with Physics, Mathematics/ Biology/ Biotechnology and English or equivalent as compulsory subjects from a recognised board with a minimum of 60% aggregate for BTech Biotechnology, Food Tech and Biomedical Selection Criteria: LPUNEST + JEE Main + CUET
MBA	Eligibility: Graduation with at least 55% aggregate or completed Company Secretary (CS) from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) or Chartered Accountancy (CA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) or Cost & Management Accountancy (CMA) from Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI) Selection Criteria: LPUNEST / CAT / MAT / XAT / CMAT / NMAT + GDPI
BBA/ BBA (Hons)	Eligibility: Class 12 from a recognised board with 50%-60% aggregate with English or equivalent Selection Criteria: LPUNEST/ CUET UG (merit-based for some of the BBA specialisations)
MCA/ MCA (Hons)	Eligibility: A minimum aggregate of 60% in BCA or BSc (CS/IT) or any other UG degree with CS/ Mathematics/ Statistics/ Business Maths/ Business Statistics/ QT as a subject at UG or Class 12 level) Selection Criteria: LPUNEST

 

Yes, the College of Arts, Delhi University, offers MFA courses for the duration of two years, divided into four semesters, and offered in full-time mode. The basic requirement for admission to MFA courses is that candidates must complete their BFA degree, according to the specialisation they want to pursue in their postgraduate studies. Moreover, the university offers several specialsiations in MFA courses, and the admission process for all specialisation is almost similar. 

CSJM University admission process includes multiple steps. Begining with registration, candidates are required to apply online for the course of their choice. Check below step-wise Kanpur University admission process:

Step 1: CSJMU Application Process 2025

The mode of application is online. Eligible aspirants can apply for the course of their choice on the official website of the university.

Step 2: Selection Rounds

CSJMU selects candidates based on their merit in the last qualifying exam for most of the courses. For MBA, LLM, MCA, etc., the admission is based on entrance-exam score.

Step 3: Counselling

Once the selection rounds are over, selected candidates are called for counselling and document verification. Selected candidates must confirm their seat with the course fee to avoid rejection.

Aspirants who will be appearing in CUET UG 2024 exam will be required to participate in the counselling / admission process of any University / Institution / organisation even though they have not applied for that University / Institution / organisation in the Online Application Form of CUET UG - 2024. Notably, aspirants must fulfil the eligibility criteria of that course of University / Institution / organisation where they are aspiring to take admission. In order to know more about the CUET UG admission process, candidates can check the space above or the official website of the exam.

AAFT is a private academy; however, it is approved by the UGC. The academy also has multiple associations with international universities such as New York University, USA, Oxford Business College, United Kingdom and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1990, the Asian Academy of Film and Television (AAFT), is a Media and Communication academy located in Delhi/ NCR. It is located in Film City Noida and is known for offering various undergraduate, postgraduate, Diploma and short-term courses in the fields of Cinema, Mass Communication, Animation, Fashion and Photography.