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Reputations for these architecture schools?
I'm interested in pursuing architecture in college, and I'm looking for insight into the reputations of these schools' architecture programs, and what they're like: - Illinois Institute of Technology - School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Judson University - University of Illinois at Chicago - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Southern Illinois University at Carbondale - University of Kentucky - University of Cincinnati - University of Hawaii at Manoa Thanks!
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- Please forgo those private overpriced for-profit tech schools such as the 'art institute'. (I'm not sure, but 'illinois institute of tech' sounds to be for-profit even if says otherwise). These consumer sites have negative posts by former students about the 'art institute', one of those private $$ for-profit tech schools: - http://www.ripoffreport.com - http://www.pissedconsumer.com - http://www.complaintsboard.com and can search. For accredited schools of architecture: http://www.naab.org/architecture_programs/ US colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ General career info: http://www.bls.gov/oco and can search. This consumer site may have posts by former students about the schools in which you're interested: http://www.studentsreview.com and can type into search and then click 'comments' if there are any. (The "red square" posts are the negative ones.)
- University of Cincinnati's college of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (known as DAAP) is ranked as the Top 30 in the World. I think I read once that it's like 6th in the nation, but in the top 30 globally. It's very difficult to get into, but if you get in and go, it will look VERY good on your resumé when you graduate.
- Unfortunately, I know nothing about those schools. Here in California, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly SLO) and UC Berkeley (Cal) are two of the best.
- If its any of your choices are one of the Art Institutes run by EDMC, avoid them like a plague. They're like McDonald's of Art "Colleges". They're a chain that is popping up everywhere. They buy out dying schools, rename them, keep the accreditation. If you ask me, they're an elaborate corporate scam to funnel as many Government Pell grants and guaranteed loans out of students as they can and leave the students with the bill. They may seem like they would be good, but it is all smoke and mirrors. Pretty building with pretty computers. Meanwhile, it will just ruin your life. The market demand they say they're meeting is not the demand of the Job market, its the demand of the students. Students that graduated AI are struggling to get jobs and have over more than $50,000+ or $90,000+ in debt depending on what degree they went for. Degrees that are worthless in the job market. Basically, AI is a degree mill. They use bloated success stats and circle logic to back them up. They count students working at Toys R Us as in the field. Avoid them if you want to actually have a decent future. If you really want to pursue your passion, go to a community college, study fine art, and then transfer into a state school. It will be cheaper and the money you save you can buy your own equipment and STILL have money left over for a better future. Their job leads are bogus, they go to Monster, Craigslist, and career builder just like everyone else. Their top employer is HOME DEPOT (Check their own website) and I guarantee none of those are art jobs. Don't make the same mistake my friends and I did. We'll be paying for it for the rest of our lives. If you go with AI you'll be folding clothes at Target or hawking video games at Toys R Us for $8.25 an hour and struggling to pay $90,000 with bill collectors haunting your every waking moment with no way to stop them because there is no bankruptcy protection on Student loans.
