LAC with good art/design program in South

WHOUSTONMOM
Fri, 28 Oct 2005 01:48:21 +0000

jdaa

I"m not sure what your d wants to do or what area she wants to study, but i do have a suggestion for you to consider. Take a look at University of North Texas. It has the best art department of all the universities in Texas. Except maybe University of St. Thomas in Houston. UNT has an Honors program that is really good, with their own seperate dorm for honors students, and the classes are instead of not in addition to other classes.

Here is the website for the school: http://www.unt.edu

The Toulouse School of Graduate Studies at UNT works with every major, so if she really does not want to teach she can get a Masters in Comunication Design, Art History, or choose a large variety of other fields for a Masters degree. They have a huge selection of Masters Programs.

My d is considering a BFA in Communication Design and a Masters in either Advertising, Journalism, or the Business School, because she wants to work for a major magazine as an art director. My d loves fashion and photography too and UNT offers those degrees also.

What I like is the cost - 15 hours a semester at $3000.00 for instate and about $8000.00 for out of state tuition and fees. And they have lots of financial aid programs too.

This school will be my d’s safety, her dream school is RISD, but she will be applying at SCAD, MICA, Pratt, Parsons, Said, SVA, CM, and a few others also.

As far as University of St. Thomas in Houston, they do not have their own art department. The Glassell School of Art, which is run by the Museum of Fine Arts Housston acts as their art department. My d is only in the eighth grade this year, and is going to the Junior School on Saturdays, and hopes to get into the ACT Glassell program for high school, which means a 15 piece portfolio submission with 3 art teacher recommendations. So far, she loves the work, and the art training there has been excellent. I imagine the art classes at the college level are excellent. I’m sorry I don’t know anything about University of St. Thomas.