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Artists serve as narrators, innovators, and visionaries who influence our cultural landscape and enhance our collective experience. At Elam, you'll cultivate abilities in creative expression, teamwork, analytical reasoning, and business acumen. These competencies will equip you to create meaningful contributions across corporate environments, creative sectors, and broader communities. The BFA program empowers you to realize your concepts through extensive investigation, study, and hands-on experimentation with diverse artistic media and digital tools. Our experienced instructors and technical experts will mentor your creative process, helping you hone your techniques and craft exceptional works. Organizations increasingly seek creative professionals to solve problems, identify prospects, and manifest innovative solutions. As the employment landscape evolves, graduates enjoy expanding career prospects across numerous fields. Thriving as a creative professional isn't limited to fine arts - alumni establish careers in branding, visual communication, digital marketing, apparel design, cinematography, urban design, corporate ventures, media, and beyond.
Secondary school qualifications
You need to have one of the following:
GCE ‘A’ Level requirements apply to ‘A’ Level qualifications examined by bodies such as AQA, OCR, Edexcel, WJEC, CCEA and Pearson Education Limited taken outside of New Zealand.
Cambridge International Examinations (CIE). You must have completed a minimum of three A-level subjects.
IELTS (Academic): Overall score of 6.0 and no bands below 5.5; Internet based TOEFL (iBT): Overall score of 80 and a written score of 21; Paper-based TOEFL: Overall score of 60 and a writing score of 21; Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE), Cambridge English Proficiency (CPE): Overall score of 169 and no bands below 162; Foundation Certificate in English for Academic Purposes (FCertEAP): Grade of C-; Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic: Overall score of 50 and no PTE Communicative score below 42; Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB): 80.