art+design Competitors

Offering more degree programs and specializations than any other art and design university, SCAD is uniquely qualified to prepare talented students for professional, creative careers.

Creative Careers Start Here. A destination for innovators for 135 years and located in the heart of downtown Chicago’s Cultural Mile,Columbia College Chicagois a private, non-profit school for creatives that offers a distinctive curriculum that blends creative and media arts, liberal arts, and business in 40 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Columbia students graduate career-ready, with creative and critical thinking skills, real-world problem-solving abilities, standout bodies of work, and industry connections to fuel their professional journeys and the creative economy.

RISD is a college and museum founded in Providence, RI in 1877, where making starts with a question, creativity sparks progress and challenging the status quo is the norm. Today, our community of 2,606 students engaged in more than 40 full-time bachelor’s and master’s degree programs cultivates a critical exchange of ideas between artists, designers and scholars that will help to shape the future. Through a cross-disciplinary curriculum of studio-based learning and rigorous study in the liberal arts, RISD students are encouraged to develop their own personal creative processes, but are united by one guiding principle: in order to create, one must question. Rhode Island School of Design welcomes your opinions and encourages open discussion in a respectful and meaningful way. RISD reserves the right to remove any comments that harass, abuse, threaten or violate the rights of others.