The Art Center College of Design

Date: Oct 06 2019
Major: Design Arts - Industrial Design/Graphic Design/etc (This Major's Salary over time)
A school that could be amazing, but my opinion of it is colored by poor instructors and focus on marketing, and not on students. Our instructors were not industry leaders as the school promised, but mostly cannibalized ACCD grads that were only there because they couldn't find work elsewhere. Professors had low morale due to this reason, which affects the students. I witnessed threatening and verbal abuse to students by frustrated underpaid faculty.

The rising tuition is more than medical school, and I couldn't find good reason for it in the return. A lot of smart students dropped out halfway to pursue industry work and I wish I had too- instead like many others, on graduation I was saddled with an expensive degree and zero experience out of school. I succeeded in my field only after I found external opportunities unrelated to ACCD. This story is the same for the top student of my graduating class.

The students and some head instructors are easily the best part of the school. There are many talented, hardworking and positive-minded people attracted by Art Center's old reputation.