School of the Art Institute of Chicago (StudentsReview)

How this student rated the school

Research Quality	B-	Research Availability	B+
Research Funding	B-	Graduate Politics	D+
Errand Runners	A+	Degree Completion	A
Alternative pay [ta/gsi]	A-	Sufficient Pay	D+
Competitiveness	A-	Education Quality	B-
Faculty Accessibility	C+	Useful Research	C-
Extracurriculars	C	Success-Understanding	C
Surrounding City	A	Social Life/Environment	C
"Individual" treatment	C	Friendliness	D
Safety	C	Campus Beauty	B
Campus Maintenance	A	University Resource/spending	C+

Describes the student body as: Friendly, Arrogant Describes the faculty as: Helpful, Self Absorbed

Male

Lowest Rating Friendliness	D

Highest Rating Errand Runners	A+

He cares more about Friendliness than the average student.

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Architecture (This Major's Salary over time)
Having just finished my MFA here, I feel profoundly ambivalent about the School and my experience at it. Some of the faculty have been absolutely amazing & have changed my life & the way I look at design; others have been absolutely dreadful. A quick warning about the Dept. of Architecture, In Arc & Designed Objects: the MFA program is in many ways EXTREMELY limited in scope, in the sense that the faculty is quite limited and most of them will refuse to work with you if they do not share your interests. In this sense the School is geared mostly to satisfying the faculty , not the students. However, if you can muddle along long enough you will meet some wonderful educators here, and if you DO manage to find something you're passionate about, you will almost doubtlessly locate faculty who will support you 100%—you just have to LOOK hard! Overall I do not regret having come here, but it has been a rocky road. Know what you are in for—keeping reasonable expectations will help tremendously! Like anyplace else, the School of the Art Institute has its share of wonderful, creative people as well as arrogant insubstantial a-holes.

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