Online Degrees & Admissions
Admissions
Explore our online program admissions requirements, financial tools, and resources to determine if they are a match for you. Reach out to cfaapply@bu.edu with any questions along the way, or simply begin your application here!
We look forward to hearing from you.
The CFA Online Experience
Why online at Boston University?
As the first educational institution to offer online music degrees, Boston University has continued to be at the forefront of online programs. With fine arts and music offerings, the programs offer students the expert teaching and quality curricula that is a hallmark of Boston University.
Hear from our students and learn why the online programs continue to shape music and art education and educators.
Resources for Current Online Students
Are you a current student in an online program at CFA looking for information or forms? Find all the tools you need during your online Art Education and Music Education experience.
Latest Stories
Explore what's new in the ever-expanding world of CFA student, faculty, and alumni news and work.
YouTube Turns 20—How Have Its 20 Billion Videos Changed Us?
CFA Dean Harvey Young shares how the platform has helped emerging artists introduce themselves and be discovered
Boston Globe feature: Fool the eye and scramble assumptions is the goal of this artist
Lucy Kim, Associate Professor of Art, Painting at BU School of Visual Arts, makes casts and paints them in incongruous ways.
Boston University School of Visual Arts Presents the 2025 Undergraduate Thesis Exhibitions
Exhibitions feature works by graduating seniors in BFA Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Design, and the BA in Art
Kahn Award in Hand, CFA School of Music Grad Returns to Her Hometown
Tuba player Nyla Mawire (CFA’25) will use the $20,000 prize to bolster music education in her hometown
Guggenheim Fellowship Awarded to Renowned Printmaker and CFA Professor of Art, Lynne Allen
Now, in the program’s 100th year, six Boston University researchers and scholars have received the honor
Wheelock Family Theatre’s SpongeBob The Musical receives four Elliot Norton Award nominations in design
The biggest night for Boston theater, the 42nd Elliot Norton Awards Ceremony is set for June 2 at The Huntington Theatre
Get to Know the 2025 CFA Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Awards Recipients
The annual CFA event, being held on Tuesday, April 22, honors six students' artistic excellence and helps support their work after graduation
Dozens of Dazzling Projects on View in Annual School of Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions
2025 Graphic design, sculpture, print media and photography, and visual narrative theses on display through April 19; MFA painting theses April 29 to May 18
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