Admission Process and Requirements

Apply now for Fall 2012 enrollment! Apply by February 15, 2012 for Financial Aid consideration.

If you have questions, please contact Kathleen Ray at kray@champlain.edu or (866) 282-7259.

To Apply:

Complete an admission application
Include your Statement of Purpose
Include your Project Postmortem
Include a current, professional resume
Submit the $50 US application fee
Arrange for a transcript of your undergraduate work to be sent to Graduate Admission at Champlain College
Arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to Graduate Admission at Champlain College

Please complete the admission application online. You may send supporting documents to MFA@champlain.edu or via mail to:

Office of Graduate Admission
Champlain College
PO Box 670
Burlington, VT 05402-0670 USA

Fax: (802) 860-2767

Please email your Project Postmortem to MFA@Champlain.edu (10MB limit).

Supporting Documents for Application

Statement of Purpose

Your statement of purpose should be 500-1,000 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 in which areas would you like to grow and expand?
How is the MFA program in Emergent Media designed to help you get where you want to go?

Project Postmortem

Your Project Postmortem 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 work of art, a software application, a commercial product, an educational program-anything that was designed to create impact.

Assembled into a single PDF or PowerPoint file (maximum 3,000 words), your Project Postmortem 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, screen shots, 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
Email your Project Postmortem materials to MFA@Champlain.edu (10MB limit)

Transcripts

Official academic transcripts (not photocopies or those issued directly to a student) are required from all colleges and universities you have attended. Please contact each college's registrar's office and sign a release to have your transcripts sent to Office of Graduate Admission at Champlain College. If you have taken any graduate-level courses, be sure to have those transcripts sent to us as well. If you have attended Champlain College, the Office of Graduate Admission will obtain your transcript internally; you do not need to request it.

Resume

Please submit an updated resume that communicates your work history. You should pay particular attention to the most recent five-year period. Your resume should be at a level of detail sufficient for the Admission Committee to assess your ability to move between projects and assignments within a single organization.

Letters of Recommendation

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.