Top Photo Grad Schools
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You guys who’ve been reading this blog since the beginning know that I’m looking to go to grad school. I’m late to the game on this but last week US News and World Report ranked the top photography MFA programs. Omg and Columbia isn’t even on there. They’re like the only school that wanted me way back in the day.
- Yale University
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Rochester School of Technology
- University of New Mexico
- California Institute of the Arts
- San Francisco Art Institute
- School of Visual Arts
- UCLA
- Arizona State University at Tempe
- California College of the Arts
- Cranbrook
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
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April 2nd, 2008 at 5:26 pm
An interesting list, but I can’t seem to find anything that indicates even roughly what was included in their criteria for “top” schools. My personal criteria includes things like good faculty & facilities, interesting work coming from current students & alumni, and of course the program itself. I don’t want to go to grad school only end up in the same position I was in when I came away with my BFA. Which is to say, I want the grad program I choose to actually give me contacts and help me figure out how to make a living at this.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Aha… just found it:
Fine Arts Methodology
Posted March 26, 2008
The master of fine arts program rankings are based solely on the results of a peer assessment survey. Our ranking, completed in 2008 based on surveys conducted in fall 2007, are based solely on a survey of art school deans and other top art school academics, two per school, at 220 master of fine arts programs in art and design. Respondents were asked to rate the academic quality of programs on a scale of 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding). Scores for each school were totaled and divided by the number of respondents who rated that school. The response rate was 39 percent. Surveys were conducted by Synovate.
The lists of schools, individuals surveyed at each school, and specialty concentrations were developed in cooperation with the Department of Art and Visual Technology at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University in Virginia.
The specialty fine arts rankings are based solely on ratings by educators at peer schools. Art school deans and other top art school academics, two per school, were asked to nominate up to 10 programs note for their excellence in each specialty. Those receiving the most nominations are listed.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
ha, yeah, that’s still not much of a methodology though, really.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
greggy please don’t go to ASU Tempe, just don’t. you’ll be happier if you don’t.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:30 am
ASU represent!
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
that list is complete and utter bullshit
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:11 pm
quick! name a photographer that went to new mexico!!
this is the nm program site:
http://www.unm.edu/%7Ephotolab/index.html
i don’t even think that was meant to be ironic.
nm? better than the sva?
April 4th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
brad, i’m where you are.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
yo, don’t even knock New Mexico! They’ve actually got a really great program– just because they don’t have the bells and whistles on their website that sva does, doesn’t mean it’s no good. SVA lures you in with their website, but then you go there and realize you’ve just settled. Bummer.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
OMG my school isn’t there! Oh no, the next, hmmm, 70 years of my life is assed out.
Ugh. Screw US News and World Report and their bullshit-ass “rankings.” Totally not bitter though, ha.