Make your mark and donate today to support research opportunities for our MPS and MA/MBA graduate students!
Your gift enables Open Studies graduate students to pursue research work in support of their degree studies. Historically, students have used the funding for user research incentives, user testing, usability Testing, user Interviews, focus groups, diary studies, survey participation, research participant recruiting, and service market research costs. Students can also use this funding toward professional development opportunities such as attending conferences and receiving training. Many of the MPS and MA/MBA students have developed products, started businesses, and participated in MICAs UP/Start venture competition and received funding to pursue their ventures.
The Master of Professional Studies (MPS) programs launched in 2011, starting with the Business of Art and Design and have grown to include UX Design and Data Analytics and Visualization. The MPS programs offer intensive, online education designed to develop both creative and professional skills and are taught by industry professionals. Since 2011, over 1,000 MPS students have graduated and pursued careers across every industry and some alumni have also started their own businesses.
The dual-degree MA/MBA program in Design Leadership in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business launched in 2012, and is the only program in the United States where students earn simultaneous graduate degrees from a business school at a major research university and a premier college of art and design, both of which are recognized globally among the most innovative institutions. Students in this program come from business management, marketing, engineering, finance, art and design, architecture, fine arts, and other fields and have participated in leadership opportunities both at MICA and JHU such as the SEAM conference and Design for America.
To learn more about the MPS programs, visit online.mica.edu.
To learn more about the MA/MBA program, visit mica.edu/mamba.
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