The University of Colorado Denver College of Arts and Media offers degrees in arts and entertainment through traditional studies combined with cutting-edge technology. Students pursue bachelor's degrees through one of the college’s three departments: visual arts; music and entertainment industry studies; and theater, film and video production. Combined, the three departments offer 18 majors leading to bachelor’s degrees and one master’s degree program. Choices for majors include music business, music performance, recording arts, art history, drawing, painting, sculpting, transmedia and 3-D graphics and animation. Degree programs usually take four years to complete. Music majors audition as part of the admissions process.
University of Colorado Denver
1250 14th Street
Denver, CO
303-556-2400
cudenver.edu
Columbia College Chicago is the largest arts and media college in the U.S. Students choose from more than 120 programs that lead to bachelor's degrees. Academic majors include advertising art direction, audio arts and acoustics, fashion design, fiction writing, game design, product design, playwriting, radio, television and theater. The school also offers 16 graduate programs, including art, writing, dance, movement analysis, journalism, photography, screen music composition, film and video, and interdisciplinary arts. Dance and music majors may need to audition before being admitted.
Columbia College Chicago
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
312-369-7130
colum.edu
Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design offers 14 undergraduate degree programs. These include art and art history, dance, architecture, design and merchandising, graphic design, interior design, fashion design, performing arts, music industry and entertainment and arts management. The school offers a certificate program in digital media and five graduate programs in digital media, arts administration, fashion design, television management and interior architecture and design. Students interested in fashion or graphic design must submit samples of their creative work. Students interested in the dance major audition as part of the admissions process.
Drexel University
Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
Nesbitt Hall
33rd and Market Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-895-1834
drexel.edu/westphal