Anyone can tell me anything about Columbia College Chicago?

[creamypencil]

Hi there,

I am Nicole, from Hong Kong, studying Journalism and communication right now. Will graduate this year.

I applied CalArts and SVA. Just wondering if anyone applied Columbia College Chicago before!!

Thanks!!!

[creamypencil]

I am interested into Photography program

[LovelyPainter]

*Private liberal arts school

*Nice rep inside IL but you'll have to CONSTANTLY explain the "where, what, huh's" to people outside of Chicago. "What school is that?? Where??"

*It is what you make it, like any other school. You'll have to dig for resources.

*If you plan to ever work outside of your discipline and into more business/marketing/finance type areas find a school with a better rep (see point 2). Even though it has tons of other majors it is heavily dominated by the FILM department and trickles down to other arts related departments.

*Some of the most creative people I've met have come from Columbia but because of a lack of drive+department support/promotion of exhibits ect......are the most creative people I know selling shoes. Harsh but that can be ANY school.

*Chicago is AMAZING! Love that city and TONS of amazing opportunities to showcase.

My two cents from friends+I'm a former Chicagoan. woop woop!

[helloall]

I had a friend who went there for a while. She got a lot of crap for it because people said it isn't an accredited university. Not sure if that's true, but it's a good thing to check.

[LovelyPainter]

I had a friend who went there for a while. She got a lot of crap for it because people said it isn't an accredited university. Not sure if that's true, but it's a good thing to check.

Yes, It's an Accredited University. That's ridic but I've heard Chicago people say that regarding Cal Arts. ("never heard of it") Again subjective to the area. ect.

I'd tell anyone going into FILM to head there in a heartbeat. They're pouring millions+ into state of the art facilities (google for info ect.) and pretty much kill the competition in that area....have a branch film school in LA too. Also a few big names have come out of the music department/engineering.

Edited January 7, 2012 by LovelyPainter

[creamypencil]

Thanks everyone. I think I am not going to consider that school then. I have read too many negative comments about the school online. People said the curriculum is not organized at all. =(

I am applying CalArts, SVA and USC. I dont' have much confidence since I am a fresh graduate.

[LovelyPainter]

Noticed you're going through listing schools for opinions. I'd contact the faculty directly and even students directly if you get refereed to some for better insight. I've contacted faculty through all of my research and most are fairly blunt, one even forwarded my email to a professor at a different university to view my work ect. You'd be surprised at some of the wonderful contacts you can make. My point being take the internet with a grain of salt. For every GREAT review for anything there are about a 100 negatives following it… even on this forum. Do your research outside of random peoples opinions I.E. look at the professors+their bios. ect. and make contact.

Hope this helps and best of luck!

Edited January 8, 2012 by LovelyPainter

[Todd M]

If you're interested in the Graduate programs at Columbia College Chicago, just get in touch with us though our website: http://www.colum.edu...sions/graduate/

If you really want to find out what it's like in the different graduate programs, check out our blog called Marginalia: http://blogs.colum.edu/marginalia/ You can email the different bloggers from each of the programs too.

Let me know if you're interested in more specific information. Todd

Edited January 10, 2012 by Todd M

[TheSweetestPainter]

*Some of the most creative people I've met have come from Columbia