The Savannah College of Art and Design
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Educational Quality | F | Faculty Accessibility | C+ |
Useful Schoolwork | D | Excess Competition | C- |
Academic Success | F | Creativity/ Innovation | B |
Individual Value | F | University Resource Use | C |
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty | D | Friendliness | B- |
Campus Maintenance | D- | Social Life | D- |
Surrounding City | D+ | Extra Curriculars | D- |
Safety | F | ||
Describes the student body as: Broken Spirit, SnootyDescribes the faculty as: Arrogant, Condescending |
Lowest Rating Educational Quality | F |
Highest Rating Creativity/ Innovation | B |
Major: Art & Design Department (This Major's Salary over time)
After attending what I thought was my "dream school" for less that a full year (two quarters) I left with an absolute distaste in my mouth. SCAD is nothing more than a horrendous excuse for an art school. First off, the school lacks the accreditations that places like FIDM, RISD and Parsons have. Second, the faculty in the department I was in (Fashion) were arrogant, rude and unhelpful. I had taken almost half of my required fashion classes at another school across the country and gotten everything from a B- to several B+ and a few A's in these classes and yet they had the audacity to tell me that I needed to retake them when my work was above that of several of their senior students! Also, the tuition for this place is laughable. The scholarships are a joke. I wasted twenty-five grand on six classes that I could have taken in one semester at my local State University for only five!!! They are robber-barrons who make you live on their less-than-accomitable housing to get full scholarship, otherwise you only get seventy percent. These "dorms" are renovated motels from the sixties and seventies that look like they would fail an asbestos test today. The "employment rate" they boast is fabricated and I guarantee you most graduates get temp jobs or part-time internships that end and they are left in crippling debt. Trust me, it is NOT WORTH going into debt for a college degree. NOTHING IS WORTH DEBT!!! Finally, something is wrong with that president of theirs. She is just not right and I wouldn't doubt that there is something illegal going on at the administrative level. Watch, within the next five years or so an investigation will be launched into that school and with luck she and her tenured jokes of professors will be indicted. So, all-in-all I have absolutely nothing good to say about this school. I urge you to go the cheap route and either get an art degree at your local university or skip college all together and start honing your craft. I'm just grateful I got out of there in time to realize what a joke the place is.