undergraduate studies
Know before you apply
- Prospective undergraduates seeking a studio art degree
- Young artists addressing society's challenges
- Students exploring painting, sculpture or photography
- Application fees; waiver covers up to four campuses
- High school courses and grades required
- Answer 4 of 8 personal insight questions
The top-ranked studio-art program in a public university nationally, the UCLA Department of Art empowers students to reshape their worlds through critical inquiry and transformative creativity. Committed to equity and inclusion in the arts, the Department of Art attracts diverse, gifted, and highly motivated young artists who are driven to speak to society's challenges and to envision change.
The undergraduate (B.A.) program includes courses in Ceramics, Interdisciplinary Studio, New Genres, Painting & Drawing, Photography and Sculpture. The program also encourages the integration of studio work with an inquiry into the global, historical, and scholarly aspects of the visual arts, providing the framework to assist each student in the development of their own body of work.