RISD的珠宝与金属加工研究生课程通过强调严格的研究，材料实验和创造性实践来培养个人卓越才能。鼓励研究生们质疑和调查激发他们动力的因素，并与系内外的创造性社区进行批判性话语，从而产生有意义的工作。熟悉研究先例和条件以建立原创作品的前提，结合历史，理论和概念的影响阐明并捍卫原创作品的定位，了解视觉和语言交流方式在工作室实践中的区别和好处创建和描述原创作品，将作品放置在当代环境中，并推动该领域的广泛对话。
At RISD we offer two graduate degrees in Jewelry and Metalsmithing—a two-year MFA and a one-year post-baccalaureate degree. These programs cultivate individual excellence by emphasizing rigorous research, material experimentation and creative practice. Our two-year MFA program cultivates individual excellence by emphasizing rigorous research, material experimentation and creative practice. In it you produce meaningful work by questioning and investigating the forces that motivate you and by engaging in critical discourse with our creative community—both within and beyond the department. As an important supplement to studio classes, graduate seminars address issues of the field, along with broader concerns in contemporary art. Structured around readings, presentations and field trips, the resulting discourse creates a bridge between theoretical concerns and hands-on making.