Fifty-five percent of COA graduates enter a graduate or professional school within five years of graduating. The following is a list of some recent COA graduates who focused on Arts and Design.

- Dan Farrenkopf (1993) is a cofounder of Lunaforms pottery, a leader in design and production of garden planters and urns.

- Nikolai Fox (2000) received a certificate in Painting from The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. He has exhibited his work in galleries in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Portland, Maine. 

- Allison Garoza (2002) works as a videographer for Televent and for Friends of Conservation in Illinois. Footage from her senior project, a documentary on the lions of Tsavo, Kenya, was re-narrated for an exhibit at the Royal Museum of Scotland.

- Liz Gwinn (2001) worked for two years as a development assistant at The Institute of Contemporary Art. She is currently enrolled in a Master's program in Museum Studies at New York University.

- Jason Harrington (1996) is an assistant professor of film and video at Framingham State College, having completed his MFA at Syracuse University.

- John Jacob (1991) was the founder and director of the Photographer's Resource Center at Boston University. 

- Noah Krell (2001) received a Watson Fellowship to study and document via photography different practices of body modification around the world. He subsequently founded Pure Photographic Goodness, a digital-imaging services lab in Portland. Noah has recently had both solo and juried exhibitions of his work.

- Adam McPherson (2000) creates metal sculptures incorporating found objects. His work has been shown at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York.

- Rebecca Melius (2001) is the head of collections at the Peabody Essex Museum.

- Beth Nixon (1999) is a puppeteer and musician, and has had a show commissioned by novelist and essayist Terry Tempest Williams.

- Allison Rogers (2004) does public relations and graphics for King Arthur Flour Company in New Hampshire.

- Zach Soares (2000) is a recording engineer and runs his own recording company.

- Bette Swanton (1988) is a curator at the Abbe Museum.

- Amanda Walker (1998) received a MLA and a Master in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

- Hua Wang (2004) is pursuing a Master's in Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

- Sara Wendt (1985), singer songwriter,  has just released her newest CD "Weightless in Love".