<p>Everybody knows that MIT and cal-tech are top math/science schools. But I would like to know what type of schools designers from Blizzard and Microsoft graduated from. And I mean Design and Fine Art majors, not Teather ofcourse. Which schools are considered the best in Art? I’m international so I dont realy know. What is the MIT of art? (IMMPORTANT:With Division I athletics:football/basketball)</p>
<p>Well if you’re looking for a top of the line private art college, you’re not going to get a top of the line athletic program. RISD is usually considered the most prestigious art college, but it’s small and doesn’t have much of a sports program to speak of. The private art college with the best sports program is SCAD, so that might be a good balance if sports are that important to you.</p>
<p>ucla has a world class fine arts department</p>
<p>The only two art colleges I know of with sports are SCAD and AAU. As for most prestigious art colleges, RISD and CalArts tend to be the cream of the crop. However, RISD is less favorable in terms of environment and setting, in MY opinion that is. A lot of people say it’s dorms are crappy, and the city’s boring and dirty-looking (Rhode Island isn’t exactly The Excitement State).</p>
<p>The MIT or CalTech of art is probably RISD. RISD is not a sports school, though. They do have a hockey team, the “Nads”, and a basketball, the “Balls”. (You can imagine the mascot and cheers that go along with those names.) </p>
<p>If you’re really looking for Division 1 sports, you might want to look at one of the bigger universities that offer a number of art majors, usually within their own separate College of Art. Division 1 schools that come to mind include University of Michigan, Syracuse, UCLA, USC, University of Miami and University of Texas. I’m sure there are many more. Try using counselor-o-matic at princetonreview.com to get you started.</p>
<p>If you’re looking mainly at art schools like RISD and SCAD, these webpages are helpful: [Art</a> school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“Art school - Wikipedia”>Art school - Wikipedia) and [National</a> Portfolio Day - Majors and Concentrations](<a href=“http://www.portfolioday.net/content/view/24/38/]National”>http://www.portfolioday.net/content/view/24/38/) but neither of these lists is all inclusive.</p>
<p>Once you have an initial list of schools, you really need to dive into the details of the major you’re interested in. For example, even though UT has a College of Fine Arts with majors such as Design, Studio Art, Visual Art Studies and Art History, the more we looked at those, the more we realized that the Advertising major in UT’s College of Communication was a better fit. It has a “Texas Creative” sequence with four portfolio classes, and the curriculum looked like more of a match to daughter’s interests in Communication Design/Visual Communications.</p>