<p>i am accepted by central saint martins, academy of arts university and brighton
and also applied for Parsons and School Visual Arts, New York but i don't know the result yet</p>
<p>i want to study graphic and communication design or visual communication and my goal is to be a art director / creative director working on advertising or a designer so which school will be great for me?</p>
<p>and if anyone can tell me something more about those school?
and i don't really know the difference between BA and BFA which one will have more chance to do design work or can anyone tell me their difference?</p>
<p>sorry for asking quite a lot of questions :-P
thx of reading</p>
<p>A "BA" tradionally gives more required liberal arts courses that that of a BFA,which is a Bachelors of Fine Arts. I guess you have to decide whether you want the vast majority of your college courses in art related areas. If so, go for the BFA. If, however, you want a broad based liberal education plus about 50-60% of your courses in art, you could seek a BA. Does that make it clear?</p>
<p>so can anyone tell me something about central saint martins, academy of art university , parsons and school of visual arts, i don't really know which one willl be most suitable for me</p>
<p>SVA is a "for profit" school. I, frankly, don't trust for profit schools since folks won't dontate money. Parsons is a good school and has a decent design program. SVA is more for animation and illustration.</p>
<p>Yes, SVA is a "for profit" school, but if you check their recent annual reports they list profit as 2-3% all of which goes back into the school. The primary issue with a proprietary school seems to be the lack of a large endowment. But, that is an issue with all freestanding Art Schools. Also, tuition fees are several thousand dollars below Parson's which seems to contradict concerns about SVA's profit status. SVA does have an alumni scholarship program with all of the funds going directly to the recipients. In addition, there are other scholarship that the school gives. The main one is called the Silas Rhodes Scholarship and is named after the school's founder. My daughter received 10K per year from SVA for this scholarship. SVA began as an illustrator's school, but has become stronger in other areas including graphic design. Below is from a recent article in SVA's weekly online newsletter Visual Arts Briefs.</p>
<p>"Graphis, the international journal of visual communication, has published its annual review of the most innovative student work being done worldwide in the graphic arts. The New Talent Design Annual 2003 features over 100 pages of work from SVA students (out of 240 total pages), outpacing all other participating art colleges and universities by a wide margin. The included work comes from students in the MFA Design, BFA Advertising and Graphic Design, BFA Illustration and Cartooning, and BFA Photography Departments."</p>
<p>Unsoccer-mom notes,"Yes, SVA is a "for profit" school, but if you check their recent annual reports they list profit as 2-3% all of which goes back into the school. The primary issue with a proprietary school seems to be the lack of a large endowment. But, that is an issue with all freestanding Art Schools"</p>
<p>Firstly, this 2-3% profit is AFTER salaries and bonuses. We really don't know how much the owners take out. Secondly, if they had such a large percentage of profits being plowed back into the school, why not become a non profit corporatio?. It's not that hard to do, and it would make charitable contributions tax deductible and encourage donations. Moreover, non-profits get special postal and mailing rate benefits that "for profit" corporations don't get. </p>
<p>Thirdly,You note that "lack of a large endownment is a problem for most stand alone art schools." There is some truth to this, but this is not necessarily the case. RISD has over a 200 million dollar endowment.</p>
<p>I don't remember MICA's endowment,but I think it was around 100 million.</p>
<p>Fourthly, if a school is a "for profit" proprietary school, people won't usually contribute money because there is no deduction for the contribution. Thus, it will be more difficult to have a large endowment or to even build up a large endowment in the future.</p>
<p>This is not to say that SVA is a bad school. In fact, if the ratings can be believed, it is one of the better "for profit" institutions. However, they still have the problems noted above.</p>
<p>I was in error, MICA has an endowment of 37 million. Pratt's endowment is about the same. New school's endowment, which includes Parsons College was around 200 million. I will admit that most stand alone art schools don't have a hefty endowment.</p>
<p>i have read about the course that SVA provide
will the first year of the degree course cotain quite a lot of drawing course and very basic stuff??</p>
<p>i want to know more about course provided by SVA
will the students spend most time doing design or wt?
and how's the chance of intership?</p>
<p>and anyone know about central saint martins??</p>
<p>one more thing I want to know how much Parsons and SVA weight my SAT
because I am going to take the SAT on May
how many scores do they expect gerenally?</p>
<p>Both Parson's and SVA have excellent websites that should answer all your questions. SAT scores are less important at art schools where your portfolio is the main factor for admission. Your portfolio will, also, determine your eligilbilty for scholarships. Calarts does not even require SAT's. RISD and Cooper place more emphasis on SAT's. That is, also, likely the case at University art progams.</p>
<p>the idea is
because our school magazine is all edited, published, and photographic by our student
so I is a publication of a great degree of freedom
just like those bird/ seagulls flying in the sky</p>
