Graduate Admissions

The Tyler Graduate Program Experience

The decision to pursue a creative graduate degree is a profound one. It’s a decision to commit to a practice – a rigorous discipline – that will ask you to dig deeper and challenge yourself more than ever before.

Offering graduate programs in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, City and Regional Planning, Studio Art, Design, Art Education and Art History, Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture is your catalytic partner in this endeavor. At Tyler inspiration is everywhere.

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Learn from the best minds and hands shaping contemporary art, design and the built environment. Work with faculty mentors who will encourage you to take bigger risks, cross disciplinary boundaries and think about the role and consequences of innovation. Make art, study its history, prepare to teach young artists or design spaces in workshops, labs and studios bathed in light.

With the vast resources of a top-tier research university – and the arts- and history-minded city of Philadelphia behind you – build skills and a body of work for a dynamic career and purposeful life.

Intrigued? Begin the rest of your creative life now.

Explore: Tyler Graduate Programs

Tyler offers graduate degrees in a rich, collegial environment on Temple University’s main campus in Philadelphia.

Architecture and Environmental Design (AED) Programs (MArch, MS)

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Architecture and Environmental Design

Through workshops, labs, design studios and collaboration, your graduate degree programs in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Facilities Planning, and City and Regional Planning will give you the knowledge and technical skills to help shape the built and natural environments of the future.

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Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Art

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Art

Tyler’s multidisciplinary MFA graduate degree immerses you in your area of Studio Art while also asking you to travel the landscape of the other major disciplines to connect, think and see differently.

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Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Graphic and Interactive Design

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Graphic and Interactive Design

A STEM-designated program, Tyler’s MFA in Graphic and Interactive Design will expose you to emerging technologies and customizable professional practice courses, while pushing you to stretch the boundaries of your own work.

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Art Education (MEd)

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Art Education

If you are a practicing artist, the Master of Education in Art (MEd) program gives you K-12 teaching skills and the credential to teach. For teachers, the Art Education master’s program gives you the milieu and space to flourish as a studio artist.

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Art History (MA)

Art History

Delve into the rich histories and critical theories of the visual arts while also developing professional curatorial and leadership skills.

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Art History (PhD)

Art History

In this rigorous, intimate program, you will work closely with a faculty mentor to attain the intellectual and research skills necessary to work in high-level curatorial positions and academia.

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Meet Faculty

As a Tyler graduate student you will work with world-class teachers who are also practitioners, whether they are making vanguard art, serving as active architects and city planners or contributing to the world’s knowledge base as scholars in their respective fields.

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Begin your application to your graduate program of choice at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture.

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Visit Tyler

Experience Tyler’s warm creative community and see our remarkable facilities in person.

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Finance Tyler

The Tyler School of Art and Architecture awards merit-based scholarships, assistantships and fellowships to qualified graduate students. Deadline for applying is Jan. 6.

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Accreditations

National Association of Schools of Art and Design
National Architectural Accrediting Board
Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board
Planning Accreditation Board
ABET Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission

Graduate Faculty and Student Spotlights

MFA Installation Awarded Fiber Art Now First Prize

Mika Obayashi

Gospel of Three Dimensions

At the juried exhibition, Excellence in Fibers IX, mounted by the publication, Fiber Art Now, Fibers and Materials Studies MFA student Mika Obayashi garnered first prize for her 11-foot-tall installation, “Gospel of Three Dimensions,” a striking indigo-dyed cuboid people can experience by stepping inside.

Karyn Olivier

How Many Ways Can You Disappear

Tyler Professor of Sculpture Karyn Olivier's work, How Many Ways Can You Disappear (2021), was showcased in the prestigious Whitney Biennial in the spring of 2024. Her piece, made from a wild tangle of rope, fishing net, buoys and lobster traps, references global migration and displacement.

Pablo Meninato

Unpacking Lina Bo Bardi: Politics, Multidisciplinarity and Gender.

Pablo Meninato, PhD, Associate Professor of Architecture, received a 2024–2025 Fulbright US Scholar award for a project on Italo-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi, entitled “Unpacking Lina Bo Bardi: Politics, Multidisciplinarity and Gender.” Lina was the first Latin American man to become a globally recognized architect.

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