Rutgers University - Mason Gross School of the Arts

Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, comprises a vibrant community of more than 1,000 creators—dancers, filmmakers, musicians, theater artists, visual artists, and designers unafraid to take risks as they collaborate with our renowned faculty of professional working artists.

Mason Gross graduates emerge not only with a degree but with a commitment to making innovative and purposeful contributions to the wider community—onstage, backstage, in the gallery, the classroom, the studio, and beyond.

The goal: to cultivate thoughtful, engaged, committed artists embracing art as an ever-changing field of possibility.

The school, just 45 minutes from the crackling energy of New York City’s arts scene, serves as the flagship public arts conservatory at Rutgers, a Big Ten research university, home to more than 67,000 students. Rutgers is the nation’s eighth-oldest institution of higher learning and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities.