Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) is a private, nonprofit visual arts college in Minneapolis. It was founded in 1886 as the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and became a wholly independent institution on July 1, 1988. The campus is at 2501 Stevens Avenue, just south of downtown Minneapolis. It shares an eighteen-acre arts campus with the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Children's Theatre Company. The college offers a BFA with majors including Animation, Comic Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, and Product and Furniture Design. Its only BS major is Creative Entrepreneurship. Graduate options include one on-campus MFA and several fully online master's degrees, such as Graphic and Web Design and Sustainable Design. MCAD reports more than 800 students from 46 states, DC and 19 countries.