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 Musashino University of Fine Arts

Musashino University of Fine Arts

Musashino Art University
1-736 Ogawa-cho, Kodaira-shi, Tokyo 187-8505 Japan
Application deadline: rolling
Advantages: Architecture | Painting | Sculpture
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private
Nature of institution
1906900 yen/year
tuition
five
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College Profile
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College Profile

Musashino University of Fine Arts (MAU), the predecessor of Musashino University of Fine Arts, was the "Imperial Art School" founded in 1929, which advocated the idea of "cultivating art through education" and "art education that truly achieves human freedom". Musashino University of Fine Arts has trained experts in various fields of unique modeling to promote the creative development of culture and social contributions.


The School of Art and Design of Musashino University of Fine Arts has 12 schools, ranging from painting and sculpture to design, architecture, film, art culture and social innovation. Set up the Graduate School of Modeling Design. Musashino University of Fine Arts also offers correspondence courses with a history of more than 50 years. As Japan's leading art and design university, so far, the number of graduates in society has reached 71000.


In this era, the ability to explore and express unanswered questions through modeling activities is most needed. Graduated from the university, they have become experts in various art fields, such as artists, designers, architects, film producers, etc. Their creativity and communication ability have been highly praised, and they have found jobs in Japan and many world leading enterprises in the industry. It has different functions.


Musashino University of Fine Arts in Japan is a specialized higher education institution of fine arts with the largest classification of disciplines and education scale in Japan. One of the organizing universities of the University of the Five Beauties in Tokyo (Tama University of Fine Arts, Musashino University of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of Plastic Arts, Women's University of Fine Arts, Department of Arts of Japanese University).


College of Art and Design


Japanese Painting Department, Oil Painting Department [Oil Painting], Oil Painting Department [Printing], Sculpture Department Visual communication design Department, Department of Industrial Design, Department of Space Production Design, Department of Architecture Curriculum, Department of Basic Design, Department of Culture and Arts, Department of Design Informatics. Among them, architecture is the trump card. It can be said that half of the famous Japanese architects are from Musashino University of Fine Arts. Since 2020, the name of the course of plastic theory and art history has been changed to the course of aesthetic art history.


What is the ranking of Musashino University of Fine Arts among Japanese universities?


Musashino University of Fine Arts is over 100 in the overall ranking of Japanese universities. But it is famous in the art category. Fine arts: the first is Tokyo University of the Arts Has; The second place should be Tama University of Fine Arts; The third is Musashino University of Fine Arts.


Ranked 150 in 2018 THE Japanese universities


Tuition for studying abroad:


Tuition: 592500 yen


Actual training fee (varies by subject * *): 14750-32750 yen 14750-32750 yen; Maintenance cost 16200 yen; Facilities cost 162000 yen; Total tuition: 1085450-1103450 yen in the first semester, 785450-803450 yen in the second half of the year.


Scholarship for studying abroad (unit: Japanese yen):


On campus scholarship: private foreign student scholarship of Musashino University of Fine Arts (300000 yen a year), Koko Takai scholarship of Musashino University of Fine Arts (250000 yen a year)


Off campus scholarship: State funded foreign student scholarship, private funded foreign student study award, Pinghe Zhongdao foreign student scholarship, Joint International Exchange Scholarship, Shenlin international student scholarship, Hasegawa international student scholarship.


examination : There are examinations for studying abroad in Musashino University of Fine Arts. You should pay close attention to the official website for the undergraduate and master's examinations. If you reach the level that you can use Japanese lessons after admission, you will be asked to check your Japanese level in each examination through interview tests. In addition, we will use documents written in Japanese from examination application to admission procedures.


University dormitory : Musashino University of Fine Arts has a private dormitory for our students only. The dormitory is well equipped and the environment is good. You can concentrate on your study, including the studio. Dormitories around: The average rent of a one bedroom in Xiaoping, where the university is located, is about 40000 yen, but the minimum rent is about 20000 yen. There are also accommodation only for women and international students.

subject

The College of Musashino University of Fine Arts has many majors, including


Shaping Department


・ Japanese painting discipline

・ Oil painting discipline: oil painting and printmaking

・ Sculpture discipline

・ Visual communication design discipline

・ Process industry design discipline: handicraft [wood technology ・ metal ・ ceramics ・ textile ・ glass] Interior Design Industrial design

・ Space and Stage Design Discipline: Stage Art, Space Design and Composition, Fashion Design

・ Architecture

・ Basic design

・ Image design: photography performance, image performance

・ Arts and culture disciplines: arts and culture industry, media planning

・ Design information discipline


College (Graduate School)


Shape Research Section

・ Friar course (pre doctoral course): art specialty, design specialty

・ Post doctoral course: specialized in shaping art



Undergraduate major

Shaping Department


Department of Japanese Painting Studies


While inheriting the long tradition of oriental painting, it also absorbed the influence of foreign cultures to form and develop Japanese painting. Japanese unique aesthetic consciousness, modeling thought based on spirituality, excellent materials and technology occupy a unique position in the world art. In this department, we are deeply thinking about Japanese painting and the process of Japan. We will gain profound and attractive professional skills through Japanese painting, and cultivate the ability to create a new painting world.


Graphic Arts Discipline [Graphic Arts College]


Pursue unique painting skills by acquiring unique classes and painting skills that reflect teachers' works.

Painting is not just a field of shaping, it is to discover its own behavior in the world by visiting the imaginary world and the real world. In this department, we deeply explore our own internal aspects, attach importance to our "diversity", explore the possibility of expression in various fields, including painting, and cultivate talents with aggressive social characteristics. We hope to "produce", "talk" and "criticize" with teachers and peers of the same generation, and create new expressions and ideas.


Graphic Arts [Print College]


In the studio that transcends the facilities, environment and level of realization, we pursue new possibilities of printing through production.

Print works represented by Ukiyo-e and many historical publications, as a "social connected media" beyond the art field, have set foot in people's lives. While expanding the types of prints, we should spread them to illustrations, picture books, photos and other media, master the skills of prints, and understand the essence of painting performance such as "what to draw" and "why to draw". I will train people who can express themselves widely.


Sculpture


Learning sculpture is to think about how works are formed. We use sophisticated equipment in professional workshops to illustrate the essence of art.

"What is sculpture?" This is a question, which is incorrect to answer. The area of the sculpture is still expanding, so it cannot be identified as "here" or "this". However, we keep asking where the sculpture comes from, what kind of work it develops, what the present and future of sculpture should be, and life will give life to sculpture. While focusing on traditional materials and technologies, it emphasizes the importance of modernity, and cultivates those who open the door to the unknown world in a way of universal inquiry.


Department of Visual Communication Design


Understand the origin of design and cultivate designers' keen sensitivity and ability to use various media.

The origin of design is to think and realize "how to convey people's feelings". For example, if you invite friends to hold a party at home, you will do many things that make you feel and pay attention to, inviting room decoration and food to every corner. In the Department of Visual Communication Design, we acquire the ability to develop to various media through vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Cultivate communicators who can exchange information in various forms. That's the Department of Visual Communication Design.


Department of Process and Industrial Design


Struggle with materials, cultivate the importance of skills, and cultivate the eyes to identify quality. This is the condition of an excellent product designer.

The design of people-oriented living environment and products department develops rich emotions, extensive knowledge and problem awareness, and realizes a comfortable lifestyle, which involves all lives and mottos. It consists of three kinds of craft, mainly the craft activity of personal creation activity, the internal thinking of living space, and the industrial society that makes the society more needed. If necessary, we can pursue the flexible environment of manufacturing beyond the field.


Department of Space Design


Let people be happy in space. Cultivate and expand their perceptual and cooperative human resources, and actively create space.

The four links of interior design, environmental planning and clothing design all have different areas of response, but they all share the common feeling of "I want to make people happy". To design a space, it is important to deepen your understanding of the history, technology, new media and technology of art and design, and to learn from the changing nature over time. By collecting personal feelings, space will be established for the first time. Cultivate unique expressiveness and rich creativity, and cultivate designers to create beautiful and rich human activity space.


Architecture


The role of architecture is to create a high-quality environment, supporting human activities and movements from the interior to housing, various buildings, regions, cities, environments, landscapes and all human interactions. In this department, you will learn the building skills that make up the space, and learn how to establish the organic connection between the building and the place and region as the basis of life. Encourage social mechanisms, master the current situation of buildings related to the creation of new society and values, master the analytical ability of historical considerations, and deepen the education of culture, art and design. Taking the "design scheme" learning architecture as a whole expression, it was divided into small studios as the core of the course from the third year, challenging today's theme and type challenges.


Department of Visual Science


In the Department of Visual Science, we learn visual expression from four aspects of video, sound, language and modeling, and develop freely operable human resources. In order to exaggerate the image and create new expressions, it is necessary to understand this technology. Therefore, before deciding your professional field, you will experience the basis of various image expressions. I hope to gain comprehensive knowledge and expression ability in my vision, understand the value of image, and increase the number of vision and producers.


Department of Culture and Arts


As the foundation of supporting our society, art and design are becoming more and more important. In this department, all expressions and their deciphering cultivate production of "theory", a good balance of "technology" for their own expression of learning. At the same time, it also nourishes the motivation and the ability to take relevant actions of people and society to actively engage in activities abroad. For the problems that the modern society focuses on from the perspective of art and design, a major can put forward new visions, and I will put forward those who live happily.


Postgraduate major

The Graduate School of Musashino University of Fine Arts aims to make contributions to the creation and development of culture by teaching specialized skills, theories and applications related to art design, and cultivating human resources to learn profound knowledge based on the foundation of undergraduate departments


The master's program cultivates academic knowledge from a wide range of perspectives, cultivates research ability and advanced ability required by professional needs. Later doctoral programs teach and develop advanced creativity and expression technologies and theories, and become the research leadership required for independent cultivation of creative research activities, rich academic knowledge, and formative arts.


For the expansion of academic field, 6 art courses and 8 design courses and 14 courses were opened. More than two years, master's thesis or master's thesis, more than 10 units, 20 credits for each course, 30 credits in total.


The Department of Fine Arts includes:


Japanese courses

Oil Painting Course

Print course

Sculpture course

Art Theory and Art History Course

Arts and Cultural Policy Course


The design department includes:


Visual Communication Design Course

Process Industry Design Course

Space Direction Design Course

Architecture course

Basic Design Course

Visual courses

Photography course

Design Informatics Course


Admission requirements

Entrance Examination for Foreign Students in the Department of Plastic Arts (Special)


Those who do not hold Japanese nationality and permanent residence permit of Japan (including special permanent residence), and meet all the following items.


1. Having received 12 years of courses under the formal education system of Japan in countries other than Japan; Those who hold the university admission qualification of the country or are about to graduate before the term limit until March 31 of the next year.


2. Those who have reached the age of 18 before enrollment


3. The Japanese language ability holder who normally accepts the course level in the university.


Three year enrollment of the Department of Plastic Arts


1. Bachelor degree holder.


2. Short term college graduates.


3. Graduates from higher specialized schools.


4. Those who are studying in the second year of university and have obtained more than 62 credits.


5. Those who have met the conditions set by the Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology during the course of receiving courses from special schools. (Only those who meet the requirements of Article 90 of the School Education Law)


6. Those who have received more than 14 years of courses under the formal education system in countries other than Japan.


7. Those who meet the conditions for enrollment in the third academic year of the university based on the provisions of Article 7 of the Implementation Rules of the School Law of Japanese Law.


College Friar Course (Postgraduate Course)


1. University graduates.


2. Those who have been evaluated by independent administrative legal person universities and awarded degrees by degree awarding institutions.


3. Those who have received more than 16 years of courses under the formal education system in countries other than Japan.


4. Those who have received distance education from schools outside Japan in Japan and have received more than 16 years of courses under the formal education system of that country.


5. By means of those in Japan; Those who have been offered courses by foreign universities under the formal education system of the country (only those who have completed 16 years of courses under the formal education system of the country) study the contents specially designated by the Minister of Education, Culture, Culture and Science and have completed the courses.


6. Students who study the contents specially designated by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science through the special courses of the specialized schools (only for those who have studied for more than four years and meet the conditions set by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science) and have completed the courses.


7. Appointed by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science.


8. Those who have passed the special enrollment review of the university in the graduate school of the university, and have obtained the recognition of academic standards equivalent to Japanese university graduation, and have reached the age of 22.


University Doctoral Program (Doctoral Program)


1. Those who have the degree of a monk.


2. Those who have obtained a degree equivalent to a monk's degree or a full-time degree in a country other than Japan.


3. Those who receive distance education from schools outside Japan in Japan and have the same degree as a monk's degree or a full-time degree under the formal education system of the country.


4. Through those in Japan; Those who have completed the courses of foreign graduate students in the formal education system of the country, studied the contents specially designated by the Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology, and have degrees equivalent to bachelor's degrees or full-time degrees.


5. Designated by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science.


6. Those who have passed the special enrollment review of the University in the doctoral research institute of the University, and have obtained the recognition of academic standards equivalent to the graduation of Japanese graduate students, and have reached the age of 24.


Collection requirements

Animation Major of Musashino University of Fine Arts


The work is undoubtedly the most important stepping stone to the ideal school. The school tests the students' standards including the work itself, layout, color, and rhythm of the work. Each profession has different requirements for the form of submitted works. Taking the animation major of Musashino University of Fine Arts as an example, the requirement is that two recently completed works, papers or collections of works can be used. It is recommended that students applying for animation major submit their animation works together with the paper file bag, and then burn them into CDs before submitting. The collection of paper works should preferably be the preliminary contents related to the animation works, such as inspiration source, human body design, scene design, separation, etc. In addition, small projects related to animation and some commonly used exercises, such as illustration photography, can be included.


Collection of professional works of graphic design


We should pay attention to the following two points: (1) Style. Japan has its own unique aesthetic style, and it is quite strong. Your works must contain elements of oriental aesthetics. (2) Thematic issues. The inspection standard of Japanese works collection is consistent with that of Britain and the United States in terms of procedure, but it has its own characteristics in terms of the theme of PROJECT, so it must be selected skillfully and flexibly.



Application Experience

1. It is the same if you have passed the N2 or N1 exam, because the college exam does not require Japanese scores. The important thing is your oral and listening skills. It is enough to communicate with the professor during the interview without obstacles. Therefore, even if you have taken the N1 exam, it is useless not to express yourself well with the professor during the interview.


2. Language schools can last up to two years, but many of them have been admitted to universities after three months or half a year. The requirement for entering a college is not that you have to go to a language school or graduate student, but that you have to graduate from a bachelor's degree (16 years of schooling) and a bachelor's degree.


To put it simply, Musashi Mei is very popular in this school. The examination mainly depends on your collection of works and interview. The collection of works directly determines whether you can impress the teacher, and the interview is an opportunity to directly communicate with the teacher face to face. Holding on to these two points is more than half the success.

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