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For generations, 91ֱ�� graduates have gone on to become groundbreaking creative forces in artistic settings all over the world. 

Now a new pairing of 91ֱ�� degree programs enables undergraduate students to establish their own paths toward interdisciplinary careers across the arts.

Beginning in fall 2025, students may pursue a combined dual degree that culminates in a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Integrated Arts. The two degrees can be completed in five years: the first four on 91ֱ��’s bucolic campus, followed by a fifth year set amid the vibrant professional arts community of nearby Cleveland.

“What is most inspiring about this new BA+BFA pathway is that it emerged organically,” says David Kamitsuka, Dean of 91ֱ��’s College of Arts and Sciences. “It developed through an extraordinary, collaborative commitment among our arts faculty to design a program that is attuned to the future of the art world and attentive to the aspirations of our endlessly creative and thoughtful students.” 

Students in the program complete courses in their chosen BA major, selecting from more than 50 areas of study offered by the College of Arts and Sciences. They also take 10 additional courses in the practicing arts, which may include cinema and media, creative writing, dance, musical studies, studio art, and theater.

In year five, students live and work in Cleveland, with 24-hour access to private studios, rehearsal spaces, theaters, and production facilities. This immersive arts year is dedicated to completing a substantial, public-facing project—a performance, exhibition, or installation, for example—determined in collaboration with their 91ֱ�� faculty mentors.

Unlike traditional BFA programs, which require selection of a single area of study, 91ֱ��’s BFA in Integrated Arts invites students to shape their own path by incorporating other disciplines into their individual artistic practice. In this way, painting could be paired with politics, theater with environmental studies, creative writing with neuroscience—or any number of other combinations.