The Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing program offers students opportunities to explore the media and practices of jewellery and hollowware while engaging in critical discussions about content and form. The program offers a broad-based metals education, including studies of art jewellery, hollowware, product design and metal business practice. After developing basic technical skills, you will move on to more advanced technical procedures and carve out your own individual artistic practice.
Some graduates of NSCAD’s jewellery design and metalsmithing program establish successful art jewellery studio practices, while others develop commercial jewellery businesses. Many have pursued graduate studies and have become writers, critics, curators and professors at colleges/universities.
WHAT OUR JEWELLERY DESIGN AND METALSMITHING STUDENTS CAN EXPECT
– Three interconnected jewellery studios with 37 large benches equipped with flexible shafts and torches and adjacent design tables available for upper-level students. You will also have access to a casting area, finishing equipment, computer design stations with modelling programs, a silversmithing studio and much more.
– A faculty of accomplished artists, scholars, educators and leaders in their craft.
– The chance to experiment with traditional methods, new technology and industrial processes.
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please
Expected October 2025
Start date
January 2025
NSCAD University
The Fountain Campus,
5163 Duke Street,
HALIFAX,
Nova Scotia (NS),
B3J 3J6, Canada
Applicants currently completing high school must submit a record of all studies from at least grade 10 onward. These transcripts should include at least mid-term or first semester grades for the graduating year.
All high school applicants must have completed grade 12 (or the highest grade level required for secondary graduation) with an average of 70% or higher, including a minimum grade of 70% in grade 12 English for university preparation. Advanced Placement (AP) courses with a grade of 4 or higher are eligible for transfer credit.
English Language proficiency:
TOEFL: At least 90 with no test less than 20
IELTS: At least 6.5 with no test less than 6.0
CAEL: At least 69 with no test less than 60
CANTEST: At least 4.5 with no test less than 4.0
CAE: At least B
MELAB: At least 82 with no test less than 80
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
Canada has a high standard of living, low tuition fees, and international students may even be able to stay and work in Canada after graduation.