<p>What are some "top CC schools" that have a great art program and why is it good? I don't know where to look when I go to their websites. Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon and Wash U.</p>
<p>Yale, Brown, Wesleyan, Vassar, Connecticut College</p>
<p>Studio Art or Art History?</p>
<p>Some top universities with excellent Art programs:</p>
<p>Brown University
Visual</a> Art at Brown University</p>
<p>Brynn Mawr College (since you are female)</p>
<p>Columbia University
Visual</a> Arts Division - Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate MFA Programs</p>
<p>Cornell University
Cornell</a> Department of Art</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins University
The</a> Homewood Art Workshops at Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Homewood</a> Arts Certificate</p>
<p>New York University (Tisch)
Tisch</a> School of the Arts: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU</p>
<p>Princeton University
PrincetonUniversity</a> | The Program in Visual Arts</p>
<p>Stanford University
Stanford</a> University Art & Art History Department</p>
<p>University of California-Berkeley
Art</a> Practice</p>
<p>University of California-Los Angeles
<a href="http://www.art.ucla.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.art.ucla.edu/</a></p>
<p>University of Chicago
Department</a> of Visual Arts • Events</p>
<p>University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University</a> of Michigan School of Art & Design</p>
<p>University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
UNC</a> Department of Art</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania
University</a> of Pennsylvania | Undergraduate Fine Art Department</p>
<p>University of Virginia
University</a> of Virginia: McIntire Department of Art: Program in Studio Art</p>
<p>Yale University
Yale</a> University School of Art: Home</p>
<p>studio art.</p>
<p>thanks for the above posts especially alex!</p>
<p>but what makes them great?</p>
<p>Spazattack, those schools listed above are generally considered among the best. What makes them great depends on individual preferences. Browse through the various links and decide for yourself.</p>
<p>spaz, My son recently graduated from Williams with a degree in art studio and art history. Williams is terrific for both. What makes it great? Facilities for teaching diverse media, talented faculty, administrative focus, critical mass of students who take an interest in art. Having three world class museums on or near campus is also a plus. Williams is academically excellent across a wide range of disciplines and many art students double major in a disparate field, like sciences or social studies.</p>
<p>My son was more interested in small liberal arts schools than large universities so his list in addition to Williams included Wesleyan, Hamilton, Skidmore, Conn College, Kenyon. Since you are female I'd add Smith. All of these have strong academics as well as arts focus.</p>
<p>Among the ivy league I'd give Brown and Yale top rating for visual arts. At Brown you also have access to classes at RISD. Tufts has a similar relationship with the Boston Fine Arts Museum School though logistically it's a little complicated. CMU and JHU both have excellent art deparments. Look at Cincinnati for design and new media.</p>
<p>Gourman Report rankings for undergrad art:
studio art
NYU
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
UC Berkeley
Columbia
Stanford
Bryn Mawr
U Michigan AA
U penn
U Chicago
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
Brown
UNC Chapel Hill
UCLA
U Pittsburgh
Indiana U Bloomington
U Delaware
UVA
Boston U
U Maryland College Park
Northwestern
U Minnesota
Rutgers
Penn State
U Kansas
U texas Austin
U Iowa
Washington U St Louis
U Wisconsin Madison
Ohio State
U Washington
Case Western
U New Mexico
U Arizona
U Georgia
U Missouri Columbia
USC
Florida State
U Oregon
Ohio U</p>
<p>Collegehelp, although I sometimes agree with Gourman, ranking Art departments seems to be an exercise in subjectivity. Furthermore, I am not sure Harvard offers Art to undergrads.</p>
<p>I think Harvard has bachelors graduates in the visual arts.</p>
<p>It must be difficult to rank art programs objectively but the top 20 in the Gourman ranking include most of the schools on your list. If it agrees with Alexandre, can it be that wrong?</p>
<p>Hehe! Touche!</p>
<p>Spaz-- my D is a freshman at Brown and will concentrate (their word for "major") in Visual Art. She loves it. the Brown department in itself is very good-- investigate Brown's web site for details. But, the other very interesting thing is that you can do courses at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), in two different ways. They are inaugurating a new double degree-- Brown and RISD together. Details on the schools' websites. Or, you can cross-register at RISD and take several courses there. Apparently it is a bit complicated (not terribly so) to arrange one's schedule to allow for cross-registration, but there are many posts and anecdotes which speak about the definite possibility of this. My D says, though, that she can get a perfectly wonderful education in Visual Art by just doing art courses at Brown. She doesn't really see the need, at least at this particular moment, for taking courses at RISD.</p>
<p>The new joint program between Brown and RISD--enrollment limited to 20(?) students--is ,IMHO, #1, hands down.</p>
<p>im kind of sketchy on ivy league schools..i've looked at other CCers' stats who are reaching for ivy leagues and they are much more impressive than mine. i dont really fit into ivy league material.</p>
<p>spazattack, stats aren't everything. Obviously, if you have a sub 3.5 unweighed GPA and lower than 1900/28 on your SAT/ACT, your chances of getting into an Ivy League aren't good. But if you have a 3.6+ unweighed GPA and a 2000+ SAT, essays and ECs can go a long way.</p>
<p>If you are a genuinely talented artist and submit a first-rate portfolio, you will get a bit of leeway too. </p>
<p>That said, a school a bit less selective than the Ivies in terms of SAT/gpa stats with a good studio art program is Bard College.</p>
<p>I've seen Yale stuff. I'm not so impressed.</p>
<p>UCLA-----the New York Times had an excellent article about 6 months back
on New York galleries recruiting new artists out of UCLA's MFA program.</p>
<p>The University of Delaware has an internationally renowned Art Conservation program and is one of only four schools in North America offering a major in Art Conservation.</p>