The Academy of Art University

The Acsdemy of Art University will drag you through a 5+ year, subjective grading, over-priced ride that will more than likely result in you having to finish your education at another college. The teachers are not teachers at all, they are professionals in their field. This means that they have experience but a majority of them have no idea how to teach. Every project is graded like you are applying for a job, and in some cases the teachers will hire students out of their classes. Expect average grades for 40+ hours of work per project.

5th Year Male -- Class 2015

Surrounding City: A+, Education Quality: F

The intnl office sucks. the staff is stupid and they make faces when you ask more than one question. its not my problem if they dont get any respect there. there is a man who works there, David. If you want to be insulted and yelled at ,do go there. he will do the needful. I have studied all over the world and i have never been insulted just because i had wanted to transfer. he is an idiot, disrespects women. i pity his wife. he shouted at me , insulted me in front of the whole department. and refused to let me speak. now i am not the kind to make a scene. but boy did he ask for it. i complained to the head. all she did was warn him. nothing else. haha. this school is a looooooser. my friends refuse to go here. sucky place. its GHETTO !!

1st Year Female -- Class 2014

I studied photography online. I had a couple of outstanding instructors. The rest were average. I'm not sure if I learned much more than I would have reading books and posting photos on photo.net for feedback. The feedback was somewhat helpful, but not what I expected from a university. My advice is not to study photography online. It is more like studying in a fancy correspondence program; only the assignments get emailed instead of mailed. Yes, you can chat on a board. But I didn't learn much from the chat boards that they promote so much. I would have been much better off, reading books, doing self assigned projects at the end of the chapters, and going to a couple of Santa Fe workshops. Find a good program at a NON profit univ. and go there to study photography.

2nd Year Female -- Class 2015

Surrounding City: A+, Education Quality: D-