Admission Requirements

How to Apply

Deadline for Fall 2011: February 15, 2011 (to receive full consideration for financial aid); Late applications will be accepted on a space-available basis (and financial aid granted on a funds-available basis).

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Tuition

MFA tuition is $900 per credit hour.

Financial Aid

Financial Aid is available for graduate students through the loan options outlined below. Additionally, Champlain offers a small number of graduate assistantships and work opportunities as part of the College's MFA program.

Financial Aid Availability and Options

Financial Aid is available for graduate students Champlain College participates in the Federal Student Loan program. This program enables students to borrow federal loans to help meet educational costs.

If you are eligible for aid, your package could consist of a combination of Subsidized Stafford Loans and Unsubsidized Stafford Loans, depending on your financial need. The maximum loan eligibility for these loan programs is a total of $20,500 per year ($8,500 subsidized and $12,000 unsubsidized). Subsidized loans do not accrue interest while you are enrolled and for a six-month grace period after enrollment has ended. Unsubsidized loans accrue interest upon disbursement.

If you have financial need beyond $20,500 you may apply for a Grad PLUS loan up to the total amount of your financial aid budget. Your financial aid budget includes costs for tuition, room, board, books, transportation and some miscellaneous expenses.

Alternative Loans loans offered by lending institutions for educational expenses. These loans are not guaranteed student loans which means each lender has varying credit approval criteria that must be met by you, when applying for the loan.

Financial Aid Application Process

Applying for financial aid is a separate process from applying for admission. Although graduate students will not be awarded financial aid until after they have been formally accepted, we encourage students to apply for financial aid as soon as possible. Most students apply for financial aid in tandem with their application for admission. Please do not wait to be accepted to apply for financial aid.

To be considered for the Federal Stafford Loan and Grad Plus programs noted above you must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) at www.fafsa.gov. Please be sure to enter Champlain College's school code number (003684) on the FAFSA. Upon completion, you will receive a Student Aid Report (SAR) from the federal processor. Please review your SAR carefully and follow all next steps indicated.

To apply for both Grad Plus and Alternative Loans, contact a lender of your choice. They will walk you through their loan application process.

For additional assistance, please contact a member of our financial aid counseling team at 802-860-2730.

Supporting Documents for Application

Statement of Purpose

Your statement of purpose should be 500-1000 words addressing three interconnected questions:

Given our program focus on creativity, collaboration, innovation and technological savvy, how would you describe your key strengths?
What areas are your weaknesses and which areas would you wish to grow and expand?
How is the MFA program in Emergent Media designed to help you get where you want to go?

Project Post Mortem

Your post mortem should analyze and assess your role in a project that involved degrees of creativity, collaboration and innovation. The project you choose to analyze could be almost any type, from a performance to an event, an expressive artwork, a software application, a commercial product, an educational program - anything that was designed to have some kind of impact.

Assembled into a single PDF or PowerPoint file (max of 3000 words), your post mortem should pay particular attention to:

Contextual information about the project itself
A description of your role in that project
Relevant materials/examples from that project (such as narrative description, programming code, images, screenshots, URLs, etc) and a clear indication of what each example represents in the context of that project
An assessment of what new opportunities were created by the project and what improvements could have been made

Current Professional Resume

Three Letters of Recommendation

Your Letter of Recommendations should be sent to us, by mail, fax or email, directly from the person giving the reference
You are required to submit three letters of recommendation from a manager or supervisor in your professional field. In the absence of such a manager or supervisor, the recommendation should be from someone who can assess your capabilities as an employee or as a student. Recommendations will not be accepted from relatives or family members