affordable art schools

RoaringMice
Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:24:37 +0000

As others said, Mass Art may work for you, because you may qualify for a lower tuition due to your being from Maine. Speak to them directly about that.

The Cooper Union certainly would work, because it’s free of tuition if you can get in - although you still need to pay room and board and etc., which in NY, ain’t cheap.

The Fashion Institute of Technology is a SUNY, and actually is surprisingly inexpensive even for out-of-state students.

Other schools that are relatively inexpensive, have good art programs, and which someone with good but not amazing grades might get into, are: UMass Amherst, U Conn, UMass Dartmouth, Hunter College, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Purchase, Rutgers New Brunswick, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Albany. Again, as another poster mentioned, as with Mass Art, because you’re from New England, you may be able to get a lower tuition rate than a typical out-of-state student would at the state schools in New England, if you major in certain things that aren’t available at the public unis in Maine. It’s worth it to ask.

You also may want to think about applying to a couple of private universities that have decent art programs in them. While private pure art schools don’t always have a lot of non-loan aid to offer, private universities sometimes do. Thus you may want to look at: Boston University, Lesley University, Rochester Institute of Technology, NYU, Temple, and Syracuse.

Now, I don’t know your grades and SAT scores, so I don’t know if NYU is a fit re: those, or if Lesley is a better fit; or Rutgers v. New Paltz, etc. You need to figure all that out.