I'm needed to know some colleges that can send me on my way to getting a major in commercial and advertising art. I already have decent art skills and they are growing, but I have no knowledge of technology so one that could teach me graphic arts from the ground up would be good. So what are colleges that I can do this major in (and they have to be good colleges because I am in the top 15% of the nation and I don't want that to go to waste)?
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Colleges for Major Commercial and Advertising Art?
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RoaringMice
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You can also major in graphic design and go into commercial and advertising art as a profession, so that may help you find a broader choice of schools. In addition, sometimes, the school offers art as the major, and then within art you concentrate on GD. Any of these options will get you where you want to go.
Since you mentioned academics, I'm going to point you to some excellent, well respected graphic design and/or art programs that exist at strong universities, rather than at pure art schools. With one exception:
RISD. They're an amazing art school, fabulous in graphic design, and you can do a dual degree with Brown University.
You can also look at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, which offers a dual degree with Tufts. SMFA doesn't offer a specific GD focus, though - they're more flexible as a school.
Other colleges you may want to consider include: Bard, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, Columbia U, UC San Diego, U Texas Austin, Washington U in St. Louis, Ohio State, UC Davis, U Illinois Urbana, U Wisconsin Madison, Indiana U Bloomington, NYU, UC Berkeley, U Georgia, U Michigan Ann Arbor, U Southern California, U Washington, U Penn, Cornell, Syracuse, U Minnesota Twin Cities.
With each of those, you'll need to check to see if they offer graphic design as a concentration or major (it may be a focus under the art major, so you may have to dig). I don't recall if all offer graphic design, but all are great art schools within fabulous universities.
Since you mentioned academics, I'm going to point you to some excellent, well respected graphic design and/or art programs that exist at strong universities, rather than at pure art schools. With one exception:
RISD. They're an amazing art school, fabulous in graphic design, and you can do a dual degree with Brown University.
You can also look at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, which offers a dual degree with Tufts. SMFA doesn't offer a specific GD focus, though - they're more flexible as a school.
Other colleges you may want to consider include: Bard, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, Columbia U, UC San Diego, U Texas Austin, Washington U in St. Louis, Ohio State, UC Davis, U Illinois Urbana, U Wisconsin Madison, Indiana U Bloomington, NYU, UC Berkeley, U Georgia, U Michigan Ann Arbor, U Southern California, U Washington, U Penn, Cornell, Syracuse, U Minnesota Twin Cities.
With each of those, you'll need to check to see if they offer graphic design as a concentration or major (it may be a focus under the art major, so you may have to dig). I don't recall if all offer graphic design, but all are great art schools within fabulous universities.
RoaringMice
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You can also major in graphic design and go into commercial and advertising art as a profession, so that may help you find a broader choice of schools. In addition, sometimes, the school offers art as the major, and then within art you concentrate on GD. Any of these options will get you where you want to go.
Since you mentioned academics, I'm going to point you to some excellent, well respected graphic design and/or art programs that exist at strong universities, rather than at pure art schools. With one exception:
RISD. They're an amazing art school, fabulous in graphic design, and you can do a dual degree with Brown University.
You can also look at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, which offers a dual degree with Tufts. SMFA doesn't offer a specific GD focus, though - they're more flexible as a school.
Other colleges you may want to consider include: Bard, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, Columbia U, UC San Diego, U Texas Austin, Washington U in St. Louis, Ohio State, UC Davis, U Illinois Urbana, U Wisconsin Madison, Indiana U Bloomington, NYU, UC Berkeley, U Georgia, U Michigan Ann Arbor, U Southern California, U Washington, U Penn, Cornell, Syracuse, U Minnesota Twin Cities.
With each of those, you'll need to check to see if they offer graphic design as a concentration or major (it may be a focus under the art major, so you may have to dig). I don't recall if all offer graphic design, but all are great art schools within fabulous universities.
Since you mentioned academics, I'm going to point you to some excellent, well respected graphic design and/or art programs that exist at strong universities, rather than at pure art schools. With one exception:
RISD. They're an amazing art school, fabulous in graphic design, and you can do a dual degree with Brown University.
You can also look at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, which offers a dual degree with Tufts. SMFA doesn't offer a specific GD focus, though - they're more flexible as a school.
Other colleges you may want to consider include: Bard, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, Columbia U, UC San Diego, U Texas Austin, Washington U in St. Louis, Ohio State, UC Davis, U Illinois Urbana, U Wisconsin Madison, Indiana U Bloomington, NYU, UC Berkeley, U Georgia, U Michigan Ann Arbor, U Southern California, U Washington, U Penn, Cornell, Syracuse, U Minnesota Twin Cities.
With each of those, you'll need to check to see if they offer graphic design as a concentration or major (it may be a focus under the art major, so you may have to dig). I don't recall if all offer graphic design, but all are great art schools within fabulous universities.