Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has one of the country's best undergraduate and graduate degree photography programs. RIT offers students five bachelor's degree programs in photography. The degree programs include the Bachelor of Fine Arts in advertising photography, Bachelor of Science in biomedical photographic communications, Bachelor of Fine Arts in fine art photography, Bachelor of Fine Arts in photojournalism, and the Bachelor of Science in imaging and photographic technology. Most schools offer a general undergraduate degree in photography with an emphasis in one or more of these specialized fields, but RIT offers more by providing a full degree program in a specialized area of photography. RIT's program gives advertising photography majors the opportunity to specialize in portraiture, architecture, still life or fashion photography. U.S. News & World Report rates RIT's graduate program as one of the top three in the nation.
Rochester Institute of Technology
60 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
585-475-6631
cias.rit.edu
New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts program in photography. Tisch School of the Arts was founded in 1965. The photography program at Tisch centers on two major areas---creative practice and critical studies. The creative practice area focuses on developing the photographer's vision and presentation techniques, while the critical studies area focuses on the history of film photography and new media applications. Tisch's facilities include two black and white multi-person darkrooms, nine individual darkrooms, two digital labs with 25 workstations and two studios. New York University has also opened a Tisch School in Asia. The Asia school opened in 2007 and offers three graduate degree programs.
New York University
Tisch School of the Arts
Photography and Imaging Department
721 Broadway
Eighth Floor
New York, NY 10003
212-998-1930
photo.tisch.nyu.edu
The School of Visual Arts (SVA), located in New York, New York, offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in photography. SVA focuses on developing a student's photographic identity. Although the school has substantial equipment at the ready for student use, the curriculum is geared toward development of the photographer's visual style. Part of this development involves critical writing about the art of photography and the student's own work. The School of Visual Arts gives photography students the opportunity to select a specialized field of study, such as fashion photography, landscape photography, and even social documentary photography. U.S. News & World Report ranks the School of Visual Arts' graduate degree photography program as one of the top ten photography programs in the country.
School of Visual Arts
209 E. 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
888-220-5782
schoolofvisualarts.edu