MFA in Painting 

at College of Arts, Tilak Marg

Yes, the College of Arts, Delhi University, offers MFA courses for the duration of two years, divided into four semesters, and offered in full-time mode. The basic requirement for admission to MFA courses is that candidates must complete their BFA degree, according to the specialisation they want to pursue in their postgraduate studies. Moreover, the university offers several specialsiations in MFA courses, and the admission process for all specialisation is almost similar. 

No, direct admissions into MFA courses at the College of Arts, University of Delhi, are not allowed. To get admission into this course, candidates are required to complete their BFA degree according to the chosen specialsiations. Moreover, the admission is based on CUET PG scores, followed by Practical-Test/ Viva Voce conducted by the college. Therefore, admissions into Masters of Fine Arts are done through CUET PG all over India.

The total number of the seats offered in the MFA course at the College of Arts is 45. From which the maximum number of BFA seats are not assigned to any one specialisation. Because the college offers the same number of seats to each specialisation. Check out the seats and offered specialisations in the below table: 

At the time of applying for the MFA course at the College of Arts and at the time of document verification. There are certain important documents that candidates are required to submit. Some of them are as follows:

• Senior School Certificate or equivalent. 
• Category Certificate in case of SC/ST/OBC/EWS/CW. 
• Passport Photograph.
• Candidates who passed from the National Institute of Open School (NIOS) are required to submit the proof of last  qualifying examination center. the location of the examination center will determine the category: (D) Delhi or (OD) Outside Delhi. 
• Self-attestation by the candidate is mandatory. 

College of Arts is an Institution established in 1942 for advanced training in Visual Art, creative and applied, leading to the Bachelor of Fine Art Course of four years duration in disciplines of Painting, Sculpture and Applied Art at the Undergraduate Level and the Postgraduate course of Master in Fine Art in the above mentioned disciplines of two years duration.

The emphasis is on practical studio work, study of prescribed theory subjects and research in selected fields.

The Faculty are practicing as artists, painters, sculptors and graphic designers of national, international repute, and also a selected group of visiting Faculty who enrich the teaching programmes with their expertise, thus providing the students with the opportunity of discussion and interaction with eminent and contemporary artists, designers and entrepreneurs.

 College of Art is an institution which was established in 1942 to provide advanced training in Visual Art, Creative and Applied, leading to a BA in Fine Arts degree in the University of Delhi, and further to provide advanced training in Master of Fine Arts degree in the field of Fine Art, other than Art History.The cutoff of college of Arts, University of Delhi is as follows:-

NTA will release the CUET admit card 2026 online in second week of May at cuet.nta.nic.in. Candidates will be able to download their admit cards online at cuet.nta.nic.in. The admit card will be available for download in PDF document and is a mandatory document to be carried to the exam centre. Prior to the release of the CUET UG admit card, NTA will release the advance intimation of exam city slip. It is not the admit card, but will inform candidates about the city. After downloading the CUET UG 2026 admit card, candidates will have to check all the details carefully and ensure that there is no mistake. In case of any error, they will have to contact NTA to get the necessary corrections done. 

The cut off marks for College of Arts, University of Delhi 2023 are determined based on the "Best of Four" marks obtained by the candidates. These marks are compared with the DU cut offs to shortlist candidates for DU admissions 2023 to its various courses. The Delhi University cut-off 2023 is prepared on the basis of the marks obtained in the CUET Entrance Exam. The factors that affect Delhi University cut-offs include total number of seats, total number of applicants, last year’s cut off trends, CUET 2023 normalized scores, course, college and category of the candidates.

From the year 2023, admission to University of Delhi shall be based on a joint university entrance examination known as UBET for all UG and PG programmes. Delhi University has started taking admissions to UG courses through CUET from the previous year,  therefore PG admissions were based on the Delhi University Entrance Test (DUET).  CUET will be mandatory in all doctoral programmes of Delhi University from 2023 to 24.For the recruitment of UG students, a score from CUET will be taken into account in terms of admission to PG studies. Candidates for admission must appear for the respective examinations. Candidates who qualify the entrance examination will then be able to register on Delhi University’s Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS) portal for seat allocation. The seat allocation is carried out on a number of rounds by means of the CSAS portal.