Graduate Application Instructions

Graduate Deadlines

Fall 2025 Deadlines

Priority Application	Rolling Admissions
March 1, 2025	Applications will be accepted until enrollment goals are met.

 Priority: Decisions released by March 15 with priority consideration for scholarship funding.

Application Requirements

• A complete application and fee of $80
• Completed graduate application forms
• Three letters of recommendation
• 300-500 word Personal Statement
• 1-2 writing samples, 30 pages maximum for each sample

Complete Your Application

Submit all of the following in one package:

• Official academic transcripts (in envelopes sealed by the registrar) from all colleges attended.
• TOEFL score, if required (see International Student Application Instructions)

Mail your complete package to:

Office of Admissions
Attn: Graduate Admissions
Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Rd.
Purchase, NY 10577

Your application will not be considered complete until you have submitted all required official transcripts and, if applicable, test scores to the above address.

Graduate Deadlines

Fall Application	Spring Applications
February 1, 2025	Not Offered

Application Requirements

• MFA Visual Arts: $85 nonrefundable application fee
• MA Art History: $80 nonrefundable application fee
• Completed graduate application forms

Students interested in MFA/MA option must submit separate applications to both the MFA Visual Arts program and the MA Art History MA program and must be admitted to both programs.

MA Art History

• Three letters of recommendation
• Personal Statement
• 1-2 writing samples

MFA Visual Arts

• Two letters of recommendation
• Artist Statement
• Portfolio

Complete Your Application

Submit all of the following in one package:

• Official transcripts (in envelopes sealed by the registrar) from all colleges attended.
• TOEFL score, if required (see International Student Application Instructions)

Mail your complete package to:

Office of Admissions
Attn: Graduate Admissions
Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Rd.
Purchase, NY 10577

Your application will not be considered complete until you have submitted all required official transcripts and, if applicable, test scores to the above address.

Graduate Deadlines

Priority Deadline	Rolling	Spring Deadline
May 1, 2025	Until August 1st or until enrollment goals are met	Not Offered

 

Application Requirements

A complete online application will contain:

• Completed graduate application forms
• Nonrefundable application fee of $80 fee
• Minimum of three letters of recommendation, no more than five
• Two written statements as follows:
  • What does entrepreneurship mean to you, particularly as it relates to arts and creativity? What is it about Purchase and this program that are designed to help you pursue this vision of creative entrepreneurship and how does it fit into your long-term career plan and goals? (500 words)
  • If you were able to build a creative enterprise from the ground up, what would it be and what would it look like? What product/service would it provide, who would the customer be, etc.? (500 words)
• Resume

Complete Your Application

Submit all of the following in one package:

• Official academic transcripts from all colleges you have attended (including community college, transfer coursework, study abroad, summer session, etc):
  Paper transcripts should be submitted in envelopes sealed by the registrar’s office of your institution. Institutions that deliver official electronic transcripts can email them to admissions@purchase.edu.
• TOEFL score, if required (see International Student Application Instructions)

Mail your complete package to:

Office of Admissions
Attn: Graduate Admissions
Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Rd.
Purchase, NY 10577

Your application will not be considered complete until you have submitted all required official transcripts and, if applicable, test scores to the above address.

Programs

Music: MM

For gifted musicians and composers destined for professional careers, we offer graduate studies in the Conservatory of Music leading to a Master of Music (MM) degree. The areas of study* are classical instrumental performance (brass, percussion, strings, harp, woodwinds, classical guitar, and piano), classical composition, voice and opera studies, jazz studies, and studio composition.

Music: Artist Diploma

Our post-master’s programs are for graduate students in music who have completed the master’s degree requirements for Instrumental Performance, Jazz Studies, and Voice and Opera Studies.

Music: Performer’s Certificate

This is a postbaccalaureate program for students who have completed the undergraduate requirements for Instrumental Performance, Jazz Studies, and Voice and Opera Studies and are entering into careers as performers in solo, ensemble, or studio settings.

Graduate Deadlines

Spring 2025 Deadline	Fall 2025 Deadline
October 21, 2024	January 7, 2025

Spring: Jazz Studies, Instrumental Performance, Voice and Opera Studies, and Classical Composition majors only. No Studio Composition. 

Application Requirements

• Application and Pre-Screening Audition Submission: $142 (plus processing fee)
• Letter of recommendation (no more than three should be provided)
• Details for Pre-Screening and Live Auditions

Live Online Auditions: By Invitation Only

• Spring applicants will be notified of results of their application by December 1. There are no live online auditions conducted for spring applicants.
• Fall applicants will be notified of results of pre-screening auditions by February 5.

Students selected for live online auditions will be notified by email and applicants will be able to register for a live audition date. 

Graduate Deadlines

Fall 2025 Deadline	Spring Deadline
February 1, 2025	Not Offered

Application Requirements

• A complete online application
• A nonrefundable application fee of $85
• Completed graduate application forms
• Two letters of recommendation
• Artist statement
• Portfolio
• Resume - Optional

 

Interested in speaking with a faculty member before submitting? Be sure to visit our Graduate Portfolio Review page to set up an appointment. 

Interested in touring graduate MFA A+D studios and facilities? Contact admissions to schedule a tour.