Which would you choose for Art Education?

KTY
Mon, 17 Jan 2022 18:17:32 +0000

Tennessee is around 41k where the others are 25-26k so it is significantly more expensive. She has visited all three campuses and liked Tennessee and JMU the best/equally for campus feel.

We are in the process of comparing the actual course programs and mapping out what each year would look like. All have study abroad options although JMU admitted it might be hard to fit it in with the teacher requirements and still finish in four years unless she did a summer program. We need to go back to folks at UTK and VCU and ask those same questions.

One advantage to UTK is that if she decides to bail altogether on studying art she would already be within their College of Arts and Sciences and probably able to shift gears to another major (we will confirm this) while the other schools have their art teacher education within a School of Art or similar.

She has no idea where she’d want to live after but she does know there are many benefits to staying within Virginia if she wants to teach here.