SAIC’的声音艺术美术硕士（MFA）是该国为数不多的在严格音乐环境之外考虑声音的计划之一，它考虑到实验性，美学性，促使学生扩展和探索这种媒介，关键和概念性维度。声音部门的跨学科声音制作方法包括基于模拟和数字录音棚的音频工艺，计算机编程，性能（即兴演奏和曲目），声音安装，硬件设计，基于文本的声音作品，歌曲创作，和传输。对学生进行了自我批评和高级研究技术的培训。制作的作品的性质完全取决于学生自己的过程，兴趣和执着。
SAIC's highly acclaimed Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio is a 60-credit program that supports creative work, inquiry, and investigation across 12 different departments as part of the advanced preparation of fine arts practitioners.<br>The Master of Fine Arts in Studio (MFA)Sound is one of the few programs of its kind in a school of fine art, housed in a department that is a pioneer in sound art, experimental music and sound studies. <br>We encourage our MFA Studio students to move beyond their home departments and work with faculty and peers in any area that supports their graduate work and research. Graduate studios for MFA students are spread across campus in clusters that allow for robust interdisciplinary exchange.<br><br>Graduate-level courses and topical seminars support individual studio work by exposing students to the larger dialogues around the production, exhibition, and function of art as well as its expanded cultural production and reception. Students design a personalized curriculum by choosing from a wide variety of seminars, courses, and graduate advisors linked to numerous studio, design, and academic departments. Graduate critiques, central to the MFA experience, alternate between discipline-specific panels in the fall semester and interdisciplinary panels in the spring semester.