What are some good design schools? (graphic design and advertising)

[Automaggin2]

I start lookin at schools this summer, and i need to know some good design schools. I dont want to go to some stupid "Citone Institue" and get a photocopied degree. I was looking at UArts in philadelphia, but thats the only school i really know of that has a decent program.

[darklord]

I dunno about Jersey, but Boston University has a great art school, um, Monsserrat (spelling? )... the Art Institute of Chicago, and I'm sure NYU has a good art program. I too am looking to get into advertising. The problem is I haven't had any graphic design experience, and I'm going to probably enroll in a fine arts school....

[Fred]

College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Toledo has a good one too... forget the name at the moment...

Out in Cali there are a bunch like Psi-Arch.

I almost went to CCS for industrial design, but decided on Architecture instead.

---Fred

[TransMan]

Art institutes of America i have a lot of schools all over the place but i not sure which ones teach Graphic Design.

[JAM]

Yeah, Boston University has a good program.

Massachusetts College of Art.

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

-j

[Kai]

I've heard good things about the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.

[darklord]

Originally posted by JAM
Yeah, Boston University has a good program.

Massachusetts College of Art.

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

-j

True that, I actually have visited all those schools, and applied to BU and MassArt... they're more into the Fine Arts though than say, commercial art/advertising, which seems to be the direction he was leaning towards. BU is a great school, I took a tour of it a few months ago, and the facilities are great. Not to mention their club policy (basically, if there isn't a club available that you want, you can make one.... *cough*Paintball club*cough* ).

[RetroEclipseMan]

This may be a bit bias since I go there but definately check out the Art Institutes. I go to the Seattle Art Institute for animation and design but still take quite a few of the graphic design classes. They've got a real good program geared specifically towards what you wanna do and in my search for schools there weren't too many that actually found you jobs when you graduate as well as having teachers that are required to still be working in their field that they teach.This allows the curiculum to be very up to date. I'm pretty sure that just about every Art Institute in the country has a graphic design program since it's one of the more major ones but I could be mistaken.