Looking to study arts - help me find a college please!

College Search & Selection
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I’m looking to study digital arts: entertainment design (digital concept art) or illustration to be specific. Any suggestions for programs with a mix of digital arts and computer sciences welcome as well.

So far I have looked at Art Center College of Design, UCLA Design/Media Arts, and Savannah College of Arts and Design. I’ve found these schools because they have entertainment design programs or similar, but the problem is that they have different portfolio requirements (for example Art Center’s entertainment design program requires a very specific portfolio tailored to applying to that program, while UCLA’s program requires another specific portfolio that would be completely different from one submitted to Art Center). So I’m trying to narrow down my college options in order to know what specific portfolio I need to prepare.

I am also open to doing a program with a mix of arts and computer sciences, like Penn’s DMD program, or Yale’s Computing and the Arts.

About me:

Academics:
-New SAT score predicted to be 1500+ (results come out this month)
-GPA top 5% of class (if not the highest). Unweighted: 4.0; school does not offer AP/Honours courses. I am a junior and am taking the most challenging courses possible (Physics 12, Precal 12, Chem 11, English 11, Social Studies 11, etc.)
-Planning to complete AP Calculus BC, Art History, Chemistry, and Computer Science Principles
-Planning to complete SAT Subject Math Level 2 and Chem
-CEMC Math Competition Pascal score of 125 - school best
-Celebrating Art International Art Contest High Merit Awardee

ECs:
-CEO of national division of international youth run charity - ran an art exhibition featuring youth artworks to fundraise for programs; overlook several community initiatives
-Volunteer at above charity’s art program
-School Art Club founder, design head of school magazine, co-head of Model United Nations team
-Member of School’s Challenge program - help coordinate school wide events relating to international students, tutor international students
-School’s international students x Challenge Program ambassador
-Volunteer at local Arts Center as youth leader and as a children’s teacher assistant
-Piano Royal Conservatory Level 8
-Red Cross swimming Level 10

With financial aid/scholarship possibilities for international students preferred.

Thanks!

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Sorry forgot to mention: if anyone knows any Canadian universities that offer such programs, I would love to hear about those as well.

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Some wide ranging suggestions:

-Art, culture, & technology major at MIT
-Illustration at RISD (RISD also has a joint BFA/BA program with Brown, if you’re interested in CS jointly)
-3D Digital Design at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT; they also have an illustration major)
-The art BFA at Cooper Union
-Integrated Digital Media at NYU Tandon. (Steinhardt also has a minor in digital art and design.)
-Electronic Arts major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
-Art program at CalArts
-Art at USC - you could either get a BFA or you could do a BA with heavy coursework in CS. There’s also the Iovine/Young program in Arts/Tech/Business.)
-Art with a digital art concentration at Elon University
-Art, Media & Design at DePaul University
-Digital Art at Pratt Institute
-several different programs at Northeastern: The BS in Comptuer Science & Design; the BS in Computer Science & Digital Art, the BS in Computer Science & Design, the BFA in Digital Art & Game Design, the BFA in Design with a concentration in graphic & information design, or in interaction design, or in experience design. They also have half majors and minors!
-Art majors at Columbia can choose to concentrate in video

And in Canada:

University of British Columbia has both a BA and a BFA in art with digital art as one of the areas of focus.

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@meiyue What is the problem with the different art portfolios exactly? Is it that you don’t want to do the extra work to meet the requirements of each school? If you want to submit the same 15-20 pieces to all of your schools then you will just have to not apply to the ones requiring the extra or specific pieces. You could also go for a BS or BA degree instead of a BFA which would eliminate the need for any porfolio review.

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@psfk2417 OP said in her original post she just wants to decide which schools to apply to in order to prepare to create extra/specific portfolio requirements, not that they don’t want to make them.

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@juillet thank you! will check all of those out.