mareeberree

Thank you for the reply. European 20th century is what I want to study, but I do not have a specific movement or artist I would like to research though. I'm not looking for a job for the pay. I love teaching and I really want to teach Art History at a university level. I think its important in today's culture for people to be familiarized with art and art history and teaching is a way I think I would be best at. I've just been researching and it's really discouraging from what others say like "You shouldn't go into a grad program if they aren't fully funding you." I am not sure how the application and process of graduate school really is either. Do I have to find a professor who is in my field of study to help me along the way? Or is it like undergrad. where you take these courses of what you want to study?

I need some advice with grad school for Art History. I'm current going to University of South Florida. I should be graduating in the Spring of 2013. My GPA isn't that great because I am a double major in Biology too. Those classes brought my GPA down pretty bad. Is it going to affect my acceptance that bad? Is it worth going to get my Masters first or go straight to a PhD? Also I read somewhere that if you aren't going into the top 40 art grad schools, you won't ever find a job in your degree or a job at all. Is that true? What can I do to improve my chances? Is it true that if you didn't go to a top art undergraduate school you won't get int Columbia, Harvard, Yale, or UChicago, etc?