Ranking Art Schools

ethomasnj
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:06:41 +0000

Kendall, had a very impressive number of cites in talking to people and reading info on hiring. MCAD, I really don’t know about internships but my D liked it. It made it to top 5 for her but the size and lack of prestige hurt it. Too many folks had never heard of it, too bad. In interviewing recent Pratt and RISD grads, they all had internships every year except for one who took some painting thing in Europe. SCAD, not so much, but their top couple got pushed for all kinds of awards. Ringling and MICA seemed inconsistent for illustration, especially MICA, SVA was hard to judge, a lot of their students were already working or were older, but at least two of the younger ones got great internships, Parsons seemed to do better with Fashion, MCAD seemed to do well locally, but my D wants the internships in NYC. It all depends, but i am surprised by how many people miss great little schools like Alfred, KCAD, MCAD, and base their stuff off of 20 year old lists and lists of grad schools. I tried to find all the awards that students or recent grads got. Animation career review also had good quotes from working directors that helped sort the schools.