Art schools with good graphic design programs?

taxguy
Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:14:26 +0000

My daughter is interested in either graphic design or new midea (interactive media).

She is currently in a humanities magnet program and doesn’t really want a stand alone art school. However, she will definitely apply to RISD due to its status and quality programs ( it is the only one to offer a 5 year BGD program, and she can take some courses at Brown). She will probably apply to Pratt because they too have a strong graphic program

.Penn state also looks good to her as well. She will also apply to our local state university that has a graphic program , Towson University, which is her safety.

My own personal belief is that she should forget new media as an undergraduate and focus on graphic design. She can then do a new media program in graduate school after she gets a strong design background.

She is NOT looking at a LAC. We know of no LAC that is strong on graphic design. Moreover, LACS generally require too many liberal arts courses and too many non design requirements.

Other schools that she will apply to are:


Syracuse University
University of Cincinnati ( great design program)
RIT
UMass Dartmouth
5, Maybe CMU ( however, she didn’t like CMU for some reason due to its “limited” offerings. We should revisit it)