The Memphis College of Art
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Educational Quality | F | Faculty Accessibility | D- |
Useful Schoolwork | F | Excess Competition | D |
Academic Success | F | Creativity/ Innovation | D- |
Individual Value | F | University Resource Use | F |
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty | A | Friendliness | D |
Campus Maintenance | A+ | Social Life | F |
Surrounding City | F | Extra Curriculars | F |
Safety | B | ||
Describes the student body as: Friendly, ApproachableDescribes the faculty as: Friendly, Arrogant, Condescending, Unhelpful, Self Absorbed |
Lowest Rating Educational Quality | F |
Highest Rating Campus Maintenance | A+ |
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Major: Art & Design Department (This Major's Salary over time)
Where to begin? I graduated in '04, after which Ive basically have had no contact with the school whatsoever. good riddance I say. Noone there was really helpful when I was attending and they are completely useless when it came time for me to graduate. Makes me wonder what the "career services" department is there for. Part of the reason is that Memphis is really just an armpit of a city, (do not move there if you have allusions of being recognized for your artistic talent and supporting yourself with your art there) full of rednecks and ignorant people whose idea of art is paintings of barns with farm animals in front of them. So, after graduation you can look forward to working at the Piggly Wiggly. The school itself is maintained very well. I wondered why they were tearing up the old magnolia trees and completely renovating the exterior of the building one year when they could have used the money to hire more teachers so I could take classes I had wanted, but was told they were full (with an average student body of 300 annually). The faculty is a mishmosh of people who are basically failures in the art world, who hide behind the security of an academic setting. They are useless when it comes to helping and giving real world guidance about supporting yourself after college with your artistic talents, mostly because they havent really experienced that themselves. The city itself, again an armpit. Don't attend the school if you think theres some kind of art scene, or any kind of scene for that matter, youd have more luck catching a glimpse of Elvis on Beale St. The school and the city its in sucks. If you decide to go here, do so at your own risk…to your future. I suggest choosing a school with a better rep and one that most people have heard of..somewhere like Risd or something.