The Academy of Art University was founded in 1929 in San Francisco, California. It is the United States' largest private school of art and design, and has more than 17,000 art students. It offers an exciting curriculum and sixteen undergraduate areas of art and design with top-ranking art instructors. These areas of study include advertising, architecture, art education, fashion, fine art, game design, graphic design, illustration, industrial design, multimedia communications, music for visual media and photography. Other programs are animation and visual effects, interior architecture and design, motion pictures and television, web design and new media. There are also graduate degrees available. All classes are both on-campus and online.
There are nearly 50 Art Institute colleges nationwide, with locations from Texas to Georgia to California and New York. These all offer a wide variety of undergraduate degrees. The design programs include graphic design, illustration and design, interior design, web design and interactive media, game art and design and fashion design. The programs involving production include visual communications, audio production, digital filmmaking and video production, digital photography and media arts and animation. Other miscellaneous art programs are also offered such as advertising, fashion marketing and management, fashion merchandising, culinary arts and culinary management. Art Institutes also have graduate level courses. All programs are available online and on-campus.
The School of Visual Arts is located in New York, New York, and offers undergraduate degrees on campus. Programs include advertising, animation, cartooning, computer art, film and video, fine arts, graphic design, illustration, interior design, photography, and visual and critical studies. A non-degree art-history program is offered as well for practicing artists rather than scholars. Graduate programs are also available on campus.
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is another school offering a variety of undergraduate art programs and courses. Available degrees include animation, comic art, drawing and painting, filmmaking, fine arts studio, graphic design, illustration, photography, print and web communications, print paper book and sculpture. Some miscellaneous degrees are entrepreneurship and project management; advertising; branding, marketing and public relations; furniture design and web and multimedia environments. Classes are on-campus and online. Graduate programs are offered as well.