Overview

As a student in the Creative Arts Enterprise - Music, Theater, or Visual Art program at Fitchburg State University, you will hone your artistic skills as a musician, visual artist, or theatrical artist, while also expanding your knowledge of administration, marketing, publicity, and entrepreneurship. CAE graduates are well positioned to be thriving artists and arts administrators in the contemporary creative economy.

Program Overview

You will select a concentration in Music, Theater, or Visual Art, and get extensive training in that artistic discipline. In addition, you will take a highly customizable set of coursework in entrepreneurship, marketing, and professional writing. The major allows you to develop a personalized and flexible set of skills, with which you will emerge as a creative artist ready to meet the needs of audiences and arts organizations in a shifting global economy.

You will be prepared for a career as a fine or performing artist with a solid grasp of how to manage the entrepreneurial aspects of being a professional in the arts, and also for a career as an arts administrator, promoter, or other position with a diverse set of organizational demands, but where a strong grounding as a fine or performing artist is highly beneficial.

The CAE program draws on the expertise of invested faculty in multiple departments and disciplines across campus, and allows students to form multiple mentoring relationships across subject areas. The degree is awarded as a Bachelor of Arts (BA), and you will need to complete courses demonstrating intermediate proficiency in a world language.

Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this program will be able to:

Demonstrate proficiency in the core tools and skills of their artistic practice
Evaluate and critique works from their artistic discipline through the lens of appropriate theoretical and historical contexts
Develop writing skills needed to address diverse audiences in a variety of professional products and genres
Integrate academic work with public engagement to produce audience-aware marketing products, artworks, and performances
Apply entrepreneurial skills (market opportunity recognition and creation, risk assessment, financing, strategic planning, etc.) to artistic practices and institutions
Develop an understanding of the ways that the arts impact community social and economic development

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Art of Music
Class Piano
Art Appreciation
Contemporary Art
Ceramics
Sculpture
Stage Movement

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-20 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-13 00:00:00 , National
- Apply before 2026-11-01 00:00:00 , International
Starting 2027-09-04 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-05-01 00:00:00 , International

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Fitchburg, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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General requirements

course-by-course evaluation of all transcripts for applicants educated outside the u.s. (international credential evaluation; e.g., spantran, wes, ece)
results from an english proficiency exam (required for international undergraduate admission)
official high school transcript (required for undergraduate applicants)
official college transcript(s) from all colleges attended (required for transfer applicants)

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

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Applies to you

Non-residents

17966 USD / year

≈ 17966 USD / year
Out-of-State

7050 USD / year

≈ 7050 USD / year
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

970 USD / year

≈ 970 USD / year

Living costs

Fitchburg

United States

918 - 1900 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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