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    MFA
    abbreviation
    Master of Fine Arts. Also M.F.A.
  • M.F.A.
    M.F.A.
    abbreviation
    Master of Fine Arts

MFA

American  

abbreviation

  1. Master of Fine Arts. Also M.F.A.

  2. multifactor authentication.


M.F.A. British  

abbreviation

  1. Master of Fine Arts

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"Moving from passwords to password managers, app-based MFA, and now passkeys is a step change in reducing risk," Card adds.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Auf der Maur insisted that she was happy with her life, that she wanted to finish art school and get her MFA in photography.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Unlike some other major artists, Rivera never took any formal art classes, let alone attended an elite MFA program.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

The MFA assembled 14 of these, contextualized by self-portraits, Japanese prints, works by artists Van Gogh admired, and paintings by Paul Gauguin, who joined his friend in the south toward the end of 1888.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

They went to the MFA and picked out a poster of water lilies for her bedroom.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri