Art Center College of Design

Undergraduate degrees are offered in Advertising, Entertainment Design, Environmental Design, Film, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interaction Design, Photography and Imaging, Product Design and Transportation Design. We believe each student deserves a truly distinct and personal education. Our students learn by doing in small studio classes led by a faculty of practicing artists and designers. Unlike other art and design schools, Art Center students receive comprehensive education in their chosen discipline from day one, thus bypassing the typical “foundation year.” We believe this...
Read more intense concentration on the actual major—more than 30 classes—gives students the level of specialization they need to perfect their discipline and be prepared for the professional environment. Woven into the beginning terms of our curriculum are Integrated Studies classes, which build vocabularies of visual literacy and image making that our students will use whatever their chosen discipline. Integrated Studies provides an early opportunity for students to meet and work in class with a variety of other majors, allowing them to develop relationships as their careers progress while providing an understanding of how someone from a different discipline thinks and solves problems. Read less