Minneapolis College of Art and Design Overview

Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis College of Art and Design is a private not-for-profit institution. The location of the school is great for students who enjoy the amenities of city life.

What Is Minneapolis College of Art and Design Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at MCAD since the student to facuty ratio is 9 to 1.
• The 1% student loan default rate at MCAD is better than the national rate of 10.1%. That's a good sign that you may be able to pay off student loans easier than your peers at other schools can.
• Although it may not be available for every major, the master's degree is the highest award a student can attain at MCAD.
• For the <nil> academic year, 21% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, MCAD bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $43,742 a year. That's about 7% more than their peers at other schools.
• It takes the average MCAD student 4.2 years to graduate. This is pretty good when compared to the national rate of 4.4 years.

Where Is Minneapolis College of Art and Design?

Contact details for MCAD are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	2501 Stevens Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone:	612-874-3737
Website:	mcad.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/MCAD.MN
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/mcad

How Do I Get Into MCAD?

You can apply to MCAD online at: https://mcad.edu/application/portal

Admission Requirements for MCAD

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	Required
High School Rank	Neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	Required
College Prep Program	Recommended
Recommendations	Required
SAT or ACT Scores	Recommended
TOEFL	Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into MCAD?

MCAD has an acceptance rate of 66%, which means it is fairly selective. Take that into account when you are working on your application and gathering requested materials. Do what you can to stand out among other applicants.

Approximately 27% of accepted students are men and 73% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 62%, and the acceptance rate for women is 67%.

Can I Afford Minneapolis College of Art and Design?

The overall average net price of MCAD is $35,238. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At MCAD, approximately 96% of students took out student loans averaging $8,749 a year. That adds up to $34,996 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at MCAD is 0.9%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Minneapolis College of Art and Design Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 675 undergraduate students at MCAD, with 667 being full-time and 8 being part-time.

There are also 100 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 667 full-time undergraduates at MCAD, 31% are male and 69% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Minneapolis College of Art and Design students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	56
Black or African American	43
Hispanic or Latino	66
White	427
International Students	19
Other Races/Ethnicities	56

Geographic Diversity

Minnesota students aren't the only ones who study at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. At this time, 27 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 17 countries are represented at MCAD. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, Italy, and United Kingdom.

Online Learning at Minneapolis College of Art and Design

In 2020-2021, 220 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at MCAD has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 40th most popular in Minnesota for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of MCAD

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Minneapolis College of Art and Design was 17.1%. This is the #1,144 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at MCAD regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By McGhiever under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.