Hey. I’ve gotten into Northeastern CAMD Undecided, Syracuse for Industrial Design, RIT for Industrial Design, and Bard College. My favorite out of these is NEU. I am still waiting to hear back from CMU. That would be my favorite if I got in. I was wondering, however, about career opportunities. I know that NEU is big on co-ops, and if I am gonna study art, then I am gonna do it somewhere that is more career-driven than most schools. I still am afraid of ending up a starving artist, even though that is really what I want to do and what I would enjoy doing. I am debating going to NEU to do what I love at a school I fell in love with or going to Bard, a school I am 90% sure I would not like because it sounds a lot like my high school, to study computer science because it’s safe and leave art as a hobby. Would I do well career-wise at NEU’s CAMD program? I guess I’m also not the most confident in my artistic abilities. Thanks!
Industrial designers certainly have careers, as do other types of designers.
Abilities can be developed, and you’re more apt to develop them in a field you love than in a field you hate.
@PurpleTitan yeah, that’s a good point. I hear that for industrial designers though that opportunities come and go and it’s not very consistent, if that makes sense
I know next to nothing about Industrial Design, but have you talked to somebody in the co-op department about what sorts of co ops Industrial Design students get? Normally they keep information about that sort of thing.
I’m not sure why this would be such a dichotomous decision - you can study computer science at Northeastern, too, if you wanted to. Or you could explore the possibility of double-majoring in computer science, or minoring in it.
If there is such a thing as a “safe” major, industrial design is probably one of the “safer” of the art majors. It’s a combination of science and art - everything technological you use, from your smartphone to your car, is industrially designed. When people think of “starving artists” I think they’re mostly thinking about studio artists who want to be paid for painting/sculpting/drawing whatever they want, but there’s art in everything we use and somebody’s gotta do that art!
@juillet You make good points. I hope I can double major in computer science. That’s what I was thinking about doing but I wasn’t sure if I could at NEU and I don’t know if I can use “minored in comp sci” for job applications or just list the languages I know. I did choose industrial design (or possibly communication design) because it seemed more practical.
Here’s all the combined majors with CS at Northeastern:
http://www.ccis.northeastern.edu/academics/undergraduate/combined-majors/
Notable:
BS, Computer Science/Communication Studies
BS, Computer Science/Digital Art
BS, Computer Science/Interactive Media
BS, Computer Science/Design
I think Northeastern sounds like the best fit and offers you both plenty of options and a chance to try out different artistic applications via co-op. Also, CS would be much better standalone at Northeastern anyways 
@PengsPhils thanks for the link!! that’s really helpful actually thank you a lot