Kansas City Art Institute

Date: Jan 03 2008
Major: Video/Media (This Major's Salary over time)
Okay first off i need to say on entering this school i was told there was an illustration department (the reason i came to the school), LIES! then i was told i could do new media work, also lies, the school cut the new media department and changed it to digital film. a not so well thought out department teaching its student's almost nothing. i mean i could be learning the same amount teaching myself, heck most of the time i am teaching myself how to do things. and i'm not paying $27,500 a year to teach myself.

next i need to talk about the atrocious facilities (other than the painting department). the foundation department, also called as the temporary building (and it has been known as that for about 30 or 40 years now) is falling apart, i mean i was hurt about 10-12 times because of the of disrepair the building. then in the digital film department we just got a computer lab that is up to par, well if any of the softwhere would work that is. and there are about 3 rooms that are always freezing cold (coat worthy) even when it's 100 degrees out.

and last is the safety of the school. don't get me wrong security is good and they do their job, but i have been mugged 4 times on campus! and once is one to many times.

in closing if you are thinking about coming to this school i would look at your other choices one more time. foundations, animation, and painting are wonderful here, but just about everything else isn't worth your time. there are better schools out there, KEEP LOOKING!