MFA is Master of Fine Arts. This is a typical master's degree in an art university. People apply to this type of school to pursue their artistic dreams and become artists with their creativity and passions. MFA teaches you how to think like an artist and create like an artist and finally, you truly become an artist as you want. The discipline of MFA is all about thinking, creating, and criticizing. These three steps of learning in MFA are creating new types of thinkers that the 21st century want

Because the types of thinkers in the business sector have changed. In old age, the business sector wants people who can be analytical thinkers and can parse every piece of information with their analytical process and build strategies based on them. But as technology is growing, computers are good at getting tremendous data and processing and analyzing them. People can’t catch up with this capability of tasks that computers easily accomplish. This technical advancement requires us to create new types of thinkers in the business sector. We don’t need left-brain thinkers which computers are better than these people. This is the reason the old MBA is still effective but not essential and MFA is rising over the surface of business area.

As you know, MFA is all about your inner creativity and desire to express yourself. These unique points in the education curriculum make new types of thinkers and makers. Artists are truly unique people and have strong characteristics by expressing their desires and egos. This kind of right-brain thinker is good at creating imageries and metaphors and generating storytelling based on their imaginations and plots. This is exactly what the new business world wants. Right-brain thinkers have great capabilities for communication through visual metaphors and create values from them. The analytical part of the task in business is assigned to computer systems and now people are working on creating business values by creating metaphoric values and generating storytelling for their customers. 

I think we need a hybrid thinker who can do both using on left and right sides of the brain. This kind of inter-disciplined people will create unique values in the business sector. The company that is good at this kind of thing is Apple. Apple creates always metaphors and builds storytelling based on them and creates beautifully designed and crafted hardware and software. There is no other company like this. This kind of hybrid thinker makes the company more valuable than ever. One last thing for those who want to apply for MFA, This is my advice. Always break your barriers and limits, Never stay where you are, lead yourself through your inner distinguished voices, and dream of what you truly want.