Dual-Degree Programs, etc?

College Majors Visual Arts and Film Majors
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<p>I started out in a school specifically for art, and then transferred to a schools specifically for academics. Now I realize, that my interest is in both fields and not just one specifically. </p>

<p>I was interested in the dual-degree program with Tufts and the Museum school in Boston since the program offers a chance in which you can study both fields and I was just wondering what other schools there are, if any, that also offer students that kind of chance. I'm not really interested in a doing one field as a minor, but more-so studying both fields equally. Schools that offer double major's are fine as well. And I'm more interested in design such communication design or industrial/integrated design, then I am in fine arts (painting, ceramics, etc), if that narrow's it down any. </p>

<p>I'm trying to do some research but I honestly don't know where to start, or which schools are good. </p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Check out Brown/RISD dual degree. For double major, there’s U Mich and Carnegie Mellon for starters.</p>

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<p>Schools with dual degrees via SMFA Boston include Tufts, which you mentioned; but also Emerson and Northeastern. </p>

<p>niftydesign mentioned the Brown/RISD dual degree.</p>

<p>You may also want to consider broad universities which have excellent, top ranked art departments, like U Michigan Ann Arbor and Carnegie Mellon, which niftydesign mentioned, as well as at UCLA, Temple U, Syracuse, UC San Diego, U Texas Austin, Hunter College, Rochester Institute of Tech, U Cal Davis, U Illinois Urbana, Ohio State U, U Iowa, U Wisconsin Madison, Arizona State U, U Arizona, Indiana U Bloomington, NYU, U Georgia, UNC Chapel Hill, and Rutgers New Brunswick. At all of those, you want to ask, specifically, if you <em>can</em> dual major in art and in the other field that interests you. You also need to check their transfer policies.</p>

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<p>Wow, those are quite a lot of schools. Good to see that I can keep my options open. Thanks!</p>

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<p>If you are truly more interested in DESIGN (communication/graphic design or industrial design), rather than FINE ARTS, that will definitely reduce the number of candidate schools for you. For example, neither NYU nor the University of AZ offers any design majors; their art programs are focused strictly on fine arts. But some of the other schools listed – UMich, CMU, ASU, RIT, to name a few – do have very good design programs, so you’ll have to check out each school to see if it meets your particular needs. (By the way, the SMFA curriculum is also known primarily for its fine arts emphasis.)</p>

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<p>Yeah, I realized a lot of that when looking at some of the listed schools. At least there’s still a couple I can look at…</p>

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<p>Arizona State has a good design school and at Parsons you can create a dual degree with Eugene Lang/New School</p>

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<p>a thing about brown/risd dual, you can only start it from freshman year. they accept no transfers.</p>

<p>also, carnegie mellon is really good for tech and arts, idk what academic major you are thinking of</p>

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<p>Wash U in St Louis offers a dual degree and is a lot more logistically possible than things like Brown/RISD and Tufts/SMFA, just due to proximity and everyone being on the same academic calendar (unlike Brown and RISD where one is trimesters and one is semesters)</p>