FIND YOUR PLACE IN A GRADUATE PROGRAM AS CREATIVE AS YOU

GRADUATE STUDIES LEADERSHIP SUMMARY

WHO SHOULD APPLY GRADUATE EDUCATION AT MICA MBA/MA The MBA/MA in Design Leadership MICA’s Master of Professional Studies degrees are short-term, online, accessible, program enrolls students who want and professionally focused. The MPS in the Business of Art and Design is a small to be transformative leaders in a business degree for creative professionals who want to start and grow a business or variety of enterprises and fields by be a dynamic manager or creative director. The MPS in Information developing a next-generation approach attracts diverse professionals interested in the marriage of data and design to INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART to management and problem solving. create compelling visual stories for a variety of business sectors. MPS degrees are Students’ backgrounds include business completed in 15 months. management, , marketing, , finance, art, design, MICA and University’s Carey ’s dual degree, MBA/ consulting, and other fields. MA in Design Leadership offers two degrees in 20 months. The curriculum links business management fundamentals with the creative approach to thinking and Successful candidates will have: problem solving used by the world’s top .

• A desire to grasp both business For more information on our MPS and MBA/MA programs, visit www.mica.edu/spcs. practices and the principles of problem solving used by designers and creative MICA is also renowned for ground-breaking graduate programs that are redefining individuals. the role of highly skilled and informed artists and designers in society. MICA offers both MFA programs, ranked in the top ten byU.S. News & World Report, and • Strong writing and communication MA and MAT programs at the vanguard of contemporary art and skills. and application. • The ability to work in teams and collaborate with individuals from CAREY BUSINESS SCHOOL multiple fields. • Enthusiasm for multidisciplinary study Johns Hopkins Carey Business School is dedicated to transforming business and research. education through a humanistic and multidisciplinary approach to instruction and research. To learn more, visit www.carey.jhu.edu.

APPLICATION DEADLINES

All application materials for the MBA/ MA in Design Leadership program must VISIT WWW.MICA.EDU/MBAMA Office of Graduate Admission for more information about the MBA/MA Maryland Institute College of Art be received by the Office of Graduate in Design Leadership, including admissions 1300 W. Mount Royal Avenue Admission by: procedures, applications, financial aid, , Maryland 21217 USA programs of study, tuition and fees, student 410-225-2256 410-225-5275 October 31 (priority deadline) T F and faculty profiles, open houses, campus February 2 (standard) visits, and student artwork. Johns Hopkins University April 1 (final) Carey Business School 100 International Dr. Baltimore, MD 21202 T 410-234-9220 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CAREY BUSINESS SCHOOL / MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN LEADERSHIP (MBA/MA) JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CAREY BUSINESS SCHOOL / MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN LEADERSHIP (MBA/MA)

The Fred Lazarus IV Center at MICA Students in a cohort take courses at both MICA and DESIGN LEADERSHIP Johns Hopkins University Carey (MBA/MA) Business School (pictured).

THE MBA FOR BOTH SIDES OF YOUR BRAIN

GRADUATES AND MICA and Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School have THEIR NEW CAREERS partnered to link business management fundamentals with the creative approach to thinking and problem solving used by the world’s top designers. Students in this program learn to make their standard mode of operation, not a special project. Double your skill set. New approaches are needed to solve today’s complex global business challenges, and traditional MBA programs offer only traditional instruction. TIANBO HAN Entrance to Johns Hopkins Molly Needelman Waves Mowatt- • Explore the fundamentals of Learn to apply creativity, collaboration, STUDENT PROFILE: Carey Business School User Experience Kane effective along with Strategist, Program Director, iterative processes, and tolerance for new visualization, prototyping, cultural JULIE BUISSON Google Customer Experience ideas, research, intuition, and synthesis relevance and awareness, design Amtrak to traditional business practices. theory, sustainability, and social Born and raised in Lyon, France, Julie Master the management and innovation responsiveness. Buisson moved to the at age “Design leadership is viewing issues through competencies needed to lead people and 12. After graduating from the University of • Develop expertise in strategy the eyes of a —considering aesthetics organizations and reinvent how business Georgia with a degree in marketing, Julie formulation, audience targeting, is done, products and services are worked as a consultant for AGCO, and practicalities—then solving that issue research, and delivered, and audiences are engaged. a large manufacturer of farm machinery, through a collaborative, with the mind of a businesswoman who where she became aware of global issues multidisciplinary approach to • Earn both an MBA from Johns regarding sustainable agricultural considers how feasible and assessable that problem solving. Hopkins University Carey Business practices. “I am extremely passionate solution is.”—JULIE BUISSON School and an MA in Design • Study in a cohort of peers from a about designing environments,” she said. Leadership from MICA in less than broad array of career backgrounds. In Baltimore, Julie is already combining two years. interests in creative placemaking and urban • Apply what you learn to real-world Richard Best Brian Gerardo agriculture working as a creative strategist • Take traditional MBA courses situations presented by companies, Founder and Creative Director, for a vertical aquaponics farm. “I had including strategy, finance, nonprofits, governments, and other Executive Director, Gtech been developing my analytical and critical “You question whether this is the right statistics, economics, ethics, law, institutions. The Section.1 Project thinking skills,” she said, “but not focusing marketing, operations, and human decision after being in the marketplace or on creativity. I realized I was lacking a capital management. whole other set of skills, which made the being away from school for so long, but I am MBA/MA in Design Leadership program the psyched. I’m already meeting great people.” perfect choice for me.” —FLORCY MORISSET, International arts consultant who closed her popular Philadelphia gallery to pursue an MBA/MA degree that will propel her career to new heights “I realized that many of the organizations I was working for would benefit from incorporating the creative process into their strategic decision- making.” —MOLLY NEEDELMAN

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