Media Arts College in Chicago, Illinois

Columbia College Chicago : School of Media Arts:
Columbia College Chicago : School of Media Arts continues its mission of providing a strong media arts education. Founded in 1890 Columbia College of Chicago, Illinois, was granted full accreditation as a four-year, undergraduate, liberal arts school in 1974. Through the vast diversity of students and graduates, the school brings a rich vision and a multiplicity of voices to American culture, encouraging students to “author the culture of their times”. We offer an unparalleled array of courses in the heart of one of America's greatest cities. Columbia College Chicago School of Media Arts challenge students to realize their abilities according to the college's motto, “esse quam videri”– to be rather than to seem.

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To educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of the arts and media and to encourage awareness of their aesthetic relationship and the opportunity of professional choice among them;

To provide a college climate that offers students an opportunity to try themselves out, to explore, and to discover what they can and want to do.

To give educational emphasis to the work of a subject by providing a practical setting, professional facilities, and the example and guidance of an inventive faculty who work professionally at the subjects they teach.

To teach students to do expertly the work they like, to master the crafts of their intended occupations, and to discover alternative opportunities to employ their talents in settings other than customary marketplaces.

To help students to find out who they are and to discover their own voices, respect their own individuality, and improve their self-esteem and self-confidence.

To offer specialized graduate programs which combine a strong conceptual emphasis with practical professional education, preparing students with mature interests to be both competent artists and successful professionals.

Columbia College Chicago is accredited at the graduate and undergraduate levels by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Columbia is accredited as a teacher training institution by the Illinois State Board of Education.

The Columbia College of Chicago School of Media Arts offers a extensive range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

Undergraduate degree programs available in the following sugject areas:
-Audio Arts & Acoustics
-Film & Video
-Interactive Arts and Media
-Interdisciplinary Arts
-Journalism
-Marketing Communication
-Radio
-Television

Graduate degree programs available:
-Film & Video
-Interdisciplinary Arts
-Interdisciplinary Arts & Media
-Interdisciplinary Book & Paper Arts
-Journalism

They're working - and so are you.
Our average class has about 17 students taught by faculty who are working professionals in their fields. They're doing what you want to do: write, publish, make art, make books, broadcast, film, record, photograph, dance, digitize, and act. They know their way around theatres, museums, newsrooms, and editing suites. And they're great teachers who share their work, their questions, and their experiences with you.

You'll be on firm ground.
A Columbia education marries professional training with the educational breadth of a liberal arts curriculum. They gain a first-hand understanding of the world's history and cultures, and the achievements of its peoples' while mastering critical thinking and effective writing, two hallmarks of a liberal education.

You'll be ready.
While at Columbia you'll develop a "portfolio" or "body of work" that serves as a measure of your education and your development as an artist or communicator, as well as a bridge to the professional world you'll enter upon graduation.

We are currently in the production stage of our new Media Production Center. The Center is designed as a "green" building, with sustainability at the center of the design process. The Center will include two sound stages, a motion-capture studio, animation lab, classrooms, ample space for production design and costume production, and more!