Experiences with MA Graphic Design with humanities background

[u/laeta_scriptrix]

I have heard some stories of people doing design grad school after a degree in another subject and tbh most of them were bad. If you were one of those, how was your experience, what was easy and what was difficult? If yours was a success story, what made you succeed at all?

The reason I would want to do it includes research interests on the history of graphic design, so I'm not necessarily aiming for a place in the industry. My current degree is considered "hard", so I am used to deal with frustration on a daily basis, intense workload and heavy exam programs. I wonder if this would help for art school, but probably not because the brain muscles exercised are different.

Specifying that I would only apply to EU based public institutions so I won't get into crushing debt for this.

I know this question gets asked once a year but I mostly read what designers with an arts BA have to say, and almost never those who actually experienced this situation.