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The Integrative Arts program aims to foster creativity by offering students diverse opportunities to pursue unconventional artistic, academic, and professional directions. This program equips learners with distinctive creative and analytical skills essential for realizing their personal career objectives and artistic visions. Students craft a customized degree path centered around a specific artistic discipline, thematic focus, or professional ambition within the arts. Working closely with advisors, they develop tailored academic strategies that typically integrate multiple artistic disciplines with complementary fields like technology, business, or media studies.
The majority of Penn State’s applications come from traditional, first-year students. The following types of students are considered first-year applicants (or freshman applicants, as some refer to them): Current high school student in his or her senior year; Student who has earned a high school diploma or a GED and has no post-secondary coursework; Student who has attempted 17 or fewer credits (semester hours) of college coursework at a regionally accredited college/university before attending Penn State; Current high school student who may have enrolled in another institution(s) before graduating from high school (dual enrollment); Student who may have attended Penn State on a nondegree basis.
English Language Proficiency
The following are ways in which you can satisfy the language proficiency requirement: TOEFL: A minimum TOEFL score of 80 on the Internet-based TOEFL or 550 on the old paper exam and a minimum of 20 in each section of the new paper exam (code #2660); IELTS: A minimum IELTS score of 6.5 on the academic test.