Wheaton College

Date: Jun 20 2007
Major: Art & Design Department (This Major's Salary over time)
The college definitely will provide you a top-notch education and prepare you to be well versed in a certain religio-political-schoarly camp, namely evangelical-republican-evangelical scholarship. Professors are all competetant and students are bright. In my four years of experience there, I learned how to state my positions from aforementioned vintage point but never learned how to engage or dialogue with those whose beliefs and orientation are different from those that the college advocates. For me, university education must take place in a diverse setting (by the way, having a lot of missionary kids and negligeable percentage of ethnic minorities are not what constitutes diversity)in which there needs to be diverse representation of thoughts and beliefs. In this regard, Wheaton falls very short.

If you are thinking about pursuing fine art or commercial art (advertising, graphic, digital media, etc), DO NOT CONSIDER Wheaton. Its art department will not teach you whole lot besides providing you with tools to develop your artistic sensibilities and skills on your own. In addition, the department only has handful of instructors, one for each discipline (during my enrollment, there only were four studio professors).