Ranking Art Schools

redbug119
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:54:20 +0000

Another thing to be taken into consideration is the internship and job networking availability. Is it better to be at a small school (MCAD, KCAI) in a large city with plenty of opportunities and less competition for those spots or at a large school (RISD) in a small city? My D at MCAD has already had the art director at a major company in Minneapolis look at her work (thru a connection with a professor who showed the director my D’s portfolio) and they are talking about her doing some illustration work, and she is only a sophomore. Everyone is right - it is your portfolio that makes the difference in either jobs or grad school, not the size/prestige of the school.

And by the way, if you want to talk tiny, look at Chester College of New England with 166 students, in small rural Chester, NH. We went to visit there and while it was a beautiful setting, it was so rural. The school is well endowed and have a number of scholarships, but it makes me wonder where those kids find work…