Undergraduate Programs

KCAD's specialized undergraduate degree programs in design, fine art, and art history transform your creative passion into a marketable skill set, and from there, a career.

Art History

Investigate creativity as a cultural and social force and influence global dialogues with your critical insights.  

Collaborative Design

Transform your curiosity into a powerfully versatile skill set for problem solving and innovation.

Digital Art and Design

Create cutting-edge experiences with animation, video, 3D art, interaction design, visual development, and sound design delivered through web, VR, and AR as well as digital and physical games.

Drawing

Declare your artistic identity with solid skills and bold experimentation, and emerge poised to draw your unique path.

Fashion Studies

Spark your career in the fashion industry while developing your own voice as a designer.

Graphic Design

Develop as a design thinker and maker to broadly and boldly communicate through applied design fundamentals across established and emerging media.

Illustration

Learn a universal language that empowers visual thinkers to bridge cultural, social, and generational gaps.

Interior Design

Analyze and respond innovatively to the social, physical, and psychological impacts of interior spaces.

Medical Illustration

Improve lives as a visual communicator who enhances medical education and health care around the world.

Painting

Immerse yourself in the rich history and vast creative potential of painting to find your unique voice.

Photography

Pursue expressive possibilities through a multitude of lenses as you explore analog, digital, and hybrid tools and processes.  

Printmaking

Explore the breadth and depth of the diverse art of printmaking from contemporary perspectives in an open, engaged, experimental environment.  

Product Design

Create objects that respond to human need, challenge convention, and elevate the lived experience.

Sculpture and Functional Art

Transcend perceived boundaries to discover new and dynamic ways of shaping space and engaging senses.

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YOUR EDUCATION: EXPANDED

KCAD seeks to graduate curious, driven, and versatile leaders who can contribute to and shape the future. That’s why, in addition to their major coursework, all students take a wide range of immersive courses that broaden their skills, enlarge their perspective, and help them connect their individual creativity to the world around them.

Foundations: The First Year Experience

The Foundations program unites first-year students in a shared experience that strengthens their core creative skills, expands their sense of professional opportunity, and fosters community on campus.

Pathways: General Education at KCAD

KCAD’s Pathways model is general education tailored specifically for designers and artists, giving you the freedom to pursue an education that sparks your curiosity and stimulates your creativity.

Undergraduate Minors

Expand your creativity and enlarge your perspective through an abridged course of study, generally totaling 15 semester credit hours, in a discipline outside of your major.

Supportive Art History Courses

KCAD students in all majors take Art History courses that foster a deep understanding of visual creativity and invite exploration of the historical, political, social, and personal forces that influence artists and designers.