If you’d like to get the fresh perspective that a different school provides—but you don’t want to leave town—then check out the opportunities available close to campus.

Tufts University. SMFA has a close partnership with Tufts University in the education of artists for more than 60 years. Museum School undergraduate and graduate degree students take their academic courses from Tufts faculty. With more than 70 majors and a towering international reputation, Tufts University offers a world’s worth of opportunities a convenient shuttle ride away.

The ProArts Consortium, an association of six visual and performing arts schools in Boston, allows you to take studio courses at no additional cost at Berklee College of Music, Boston Architectural College, The Boston Conservatory, Emerson College, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

MIT. Museum School students may also take a limited number of studio courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at no cost. Participating students must be full-time graduate or undergraduate degree students, and must get the permission of the MIT faculty member. There is generally a limit of one course per term.