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UArts Students

UArts Students...

Welcome to Penn State!

Welcome, UArts Students!

The Penn State College of Arts and Architecture encourages UArts students to explore our degree programs in the visual, design, and performing arts. Our faculty and admissions counselors are ready to support UArts students considering transfer or first-time admission to Penn State during this challenging time.

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UArts Student Resources

The College of Arts and Architecture can help UArts students in a few ways:

  • Waived application fee
  • Expedited transcript review
  • Dedicated transfer, first-year admissions counselors

Enroll for Fall 2024

The College of Arts and Architecture provides a rich and versatile liberal arts education with specific skillsets relative to your chosen degree program. The following degree programs have enrollment capacity for Fall 2024.

School of Visual Arts

    School of Theatre

    • B.A. in Theatre
      Prepares students to write, devise, direct, and produce their own performance works. This program pairs well with a double major and/or a variety of minors.
    • B.F.A. in Acting
      Course work moves through creation of original pieces and various devising processes into scene work, monologue work, and Shakespeare. Program includes a required semester of training with British faculty at Theatre Academy London.
    • B.F.A. in Theatre
      Concentrations: Design and Technology; Stage Management

      School of Music

      • B.M. in Performance
        Concentrations: Composition; Keyboard Instruments; Strings/Winds/Brass/Percussion; Voice
      • B.M.A. in Music
        Enables you to mix classes from within the School of Music and across the University into a rigorous, but personalized degree.
      • B.A. in Music
        Concentrations: Music Technology; General Music Studies
        A student and instructor looking at a wall covered in colorful student artworks
        View of a mixing board, from over the shoulder of the operating student
        Bright yellow dye being swirled in a beaker by someone wearing blue nitrile lab gloves
        Closeup of a hand, sketching an architectural drawing on transparent paper
        Three actresses kneeling on stones by the water in a marsh
        View of a CNC control computer screen with a CNC router running in the background
        A very delicate, detailed architectural model with drawings in hte background
        A very dark scene, with a student actor brightly lit in the foreground, and another blurred actress in the background
        Student in an art gallery looking up at a bright, abstract triptych with deep yellows, oranges, and grey-black colors
        A flutist centered in a sea of Penn State Marching Blue Band uniformed performers
        Three graphic design students taking product photographs of a pair of tan high-heel shoes on a swatch of blue fabric
        A view from above looking over the shoulder of a blonde student cellist playing

        We are...

        The Penn State College of Arts and Architecture

        We are a comprehensive college of arts and design, presentation, and performance, with world-class faculty and facilities. Our vibrant community of artists, performers, researchers, designers, and educators is committed to making meaning, learning, traveling, experiencing, and sharing. We offer more than 30 undergraduate and 15 graduate degrees all in one of the Best College Towns in America. We have successful alumni working in the arts and design all over the world. Our college-wide and unit-specific alumni groups provide programming and networking opportunities for graduates at all stages of their careers.

        If you are interested in attending (as a new student or a transfer student) the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture, please click the button below to request more information.

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        Large, diaphanous fabric fish mobile/sculpture in blues, reds, and whites, floating in a display space surrounded by fabric tendrils
        Three actresses in colorful Victorian-style costumes seated at a small, round wooden table
        Student pointing to costume designs shown on a wall; part of a student work showcase
        A male and a female student facing each other, each holding a microphone and singing
        Overhead shot of large singing choir arrayed on bleachers around a grand piano in the Penn State Recital Hall
        A group of male and female students practicing dance positions in a studio space
        A very dark theatre scene with black and purple-cast lights on a single actor, arms raised, surrounded by other actors on the ground reaching toward the main character
        Closeup shot of a student welding; the sparks of the welder providing the only illumination of the work and the welder
        Musicians in formal white attire playing under the direction of a conductor with baton raised
        Three actresses wearing bright red and burgundy dresses looking ahead as a flurry of papers fall through the air in the background
        A student, seen reflected in a mirror surrounded by plants; part of the national Parking Day landscape architecture event
        Student taking a photo of an abstract blue tapestry hanging overhead; the artwork can be seen on the screen of the student's phone