<p>Is there any way you can finish BFA in 2 years instead of 4?honors program?</p>
<p>I would doubt it. BFA=2/3 of courses are in art major; these would primarily be studio courses, which tend to be long (hours-wise) and sequential (meaning you can’t always take them concurrently, even if you could fit them into your day). Plus, there is an awful lot of outside work. There are only so many hours in the day.</p>
<p>But maybe someone else has tried it and can comment. My comment’s only general.</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure what you’re asking–do you want to go to school for two years, get your BFA, and then get a job? or do you want to spend your first two years getting a BFA to let yourself major in something else?</p>
<p>If it’s the first one–
Getting a BFA in two years would honestly be nearly impossible, at least at the art schools I’m familiar with. Take WashU’s BFA (Sam Fox School): you need 75 studio credits and 15 art history credits (before you even get to the general university credits). 90 credits should take you right around 3 full years to complete, and the fourth year is all your gen eds (most people don’t lump them all into one year, but anyway…).</p>
<p>Then again, if you took 6 credits each summer, starting before freshman year (which you may be allowed to do, I’m not quite sure), and overloaded every semester, you could PROBABLY finish all your BFA requirements by the end of your post-sophomore year summer.</p>
<p>But at that point, you’d probably have high blood pressure, no friends or social life, and you’d still have a bunch of general graduation requirements from the university itself.</p>
<p>Look at Art Center College in Pasadena They run consecutive semesters throughout the year so you could use the summer to move things along and finish in 2.5 years.</p>
<p>yep that’s what I heard at the tour. but read the course book and it is actually 2years and 8month, and cost would be per block (eight total), so you are paying four years BFA worth$$$ anyways.
they don’t have housing nor meal plan, you could save COA that way.
It was said mad hard (like the poster above said) but could be done, and students there seems don’t need life really. all business, professionalism.
NO “let’s do college! woo woo!!” thing going on anywhere, not even whiff of it.
many many Asians, internatinals, not much hip girls nor boys, kids are older, classes smaller and harder, right onto major, no gen ed.
is it your thing?</p>
<p>Typically you pay by the class of credit so yeah, you would still be paying for all four years.</p>
<p>At SAIC, they give a lot of credits for AP exams (3+) and pre-college classes. Also have BOTH a winter and summer term each year. You MAY be able to do it in 3 years there if you have a bunch of credits going in. Are you already in college? A senior? Junior?</p>
<p>A million years ago, before computers were invented, I got my BA in Art Education in 3 years. I was VERY poor and could only afford 3 years. I didn’t attend summer school, but took on average 21 credits a quarter. I would sign up for 17 credits and then walk back into registration and pick up an additional 3-4 credits from another registrar. My college frowned upon any schedule over 18 credits. Because of the lack of computers, I was able to pull this off. On average, I was in class over 45 hours a week. I also took classes on top of each other; a 300 person lecture and a studio class at the same time. I would follow the lecture syllabus carefully, as I was in the studio class substantially more often than the lecture. I worked at a Fortune 100 job during the summer to pay for school. I pulled it off. After graduation I was offered a full time job with the Fortune 100 company, but chose to become a teacher, a career I have loved. I had $300 of student loan debt, but was making $12,000 a year. (The Fortune 100 company offered $38,000.) I had scholarships and Pell Grants & spent every dime I had saved and earned for tuition. I remember I had $22 in my bank account upon graduation. </p>
<p>Years later I got my MA while teaching full time and had a baby in the middle of it. I paid cash for that degree. ($93 a credit. College tuition has ESCALATED!)</p>
<p>Now I have 3 girls. Instead of taking my route, they instead have multiple degrees or multiple majors. The oldest got a BA & BS in 5 years from two different colleges/universities, and got a great job this year. My middle child is on track to get 2-3 majors in 4 years. My youngest is in high school and is figuring things out.</p>
<p>Hope these life stories help!</p>
<p>thanks for everybody’s advises. I graduated high school 3 years ago. due to my family fianical problem, didnt have a chance to pursue my education until now, thats the reason i wanted to finish a degree quickly, to make up the time i’ve lost, and help my family.</p>