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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Fine Arts - Painting/Sculpture/Photography/etc  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright It's great for art. Don't go if you can't draw (graphic design) and you gen ed classes will be pretty easy. Surrounding City: A+, Campus Aesthetics: D Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jun 17 2008 2nd Year Female -- Class 2010    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=49903&uid=1449'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Interior Design  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I went to the Art Institute seeking to find a way to fast track myself into a career without having to waste time fulfilling electives at a 4-year university. BIG MISTAKE. AIS will give you an Associate of Applied Arts degree in Interior Design. It's totally useless. Every quarter, 25 more people enter the workforce with the exact same degree you have. The result? Minimum wage job offers you could have gotten with no degree at all. AIS does not have a prestigous reputation with local employers,in addition, everyone I interviewed with wanted me to have a bachelors degree. Where can I go for my last year of study to get a BA? Florida. It's the only AI campus with a BA program. I had some wonderful teachers, whose work I admire and respect. I also had a fair share of lousy ones. I took an autocad class at Robert McNeal & Associates, (They sell the software), for $500. Based upon that class and my ability to draw, I got a job at an aircraft part manufacturer and eventually moved to a job at Boeing. AIS had nothing to do with it. But I'm still making payments on my loans........... I should have gone to the UW Bothell. Starting Job: Kitchen & Bath Sales, Preparedness: F, Reputation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Aug 31 2007 Alumna Female -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=40987&uid=1449'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Other  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright This is not so much an "art" institute but a technical college. I found the the educational value to be somewhat like my bartendending school (your next employer will want to retrain you). The admissions person sold me on the program like a used car; he just kept spoon feeding me the answers that I wanted to hear. the price for the program was around 35k for a year and a half. Afterwords,they said that they would get me a job in the industry. After I spoke to someother graduates, I found that the only way to become a sound engineer was to start out setting up mics and cleaning up after the talent (at the end of a couple of years I might be able to wear a set of cans and nod when I was spoken to.) There are so few people making money in music that all your professor has is a tiny piece of dignity left and it turns him into a real self conscious asshole. It would have been a lot cheaper to just get an internship in the beginning and skip all the grades and pro-tools drilling Surrounding City: A+, Innovation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 17 2007 1st Year Male -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=36376&uid=1449'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Other  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright I attended the Art Institute of Seattle's photography department. Someone stole a camera, so the entire class was not allowed to use the studio until the camera was found. This works in elementary school, but not in an institution where you are paying over $10,000 - $15,000 per year in tuition, books, materials, etc. Also, what normal school do you know of where they have security guards everywhere and require you to wear a security pass. The University of Washington and Seattle Central are wide open and encourage learning. Good luck getting into Seattle Central's Photo program, there is a year long wait, that's how good it is. Anybody can get into The Art Institute of Seattle! Being in the arts demands a liberal education. The Art Institutes do not offer this. The Art Institute is however a great "last chance" for some people who can't get into other schools. Surrounding City: A+, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 21 2006 2nd Year Male -- Class 1990    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=21513&uid=1449'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save      Prev    Select Page:  1  2    Next

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