Carnegie Mellon University

School of Fine Arts at CMU is really not worth it. Surprised the department is still even functioning at all. When I was there the IDEATE program started and it looks like in the long run the art program can be transformed into something more useful like that program. The faculty I had to work with and the facilities we had were really really dire. But once you move and sign up it’s very difficult to consider a different program. However it was not worth it at all.

Carnegie Mellon was a life-changer. I went to undergrad in Fine Arts and graduate school there in two very different fields and got an amazing. My professors were fantastic...I could call them not only teachers but friends by the end of the term. It's a well-rounded education and has a combination of technical and creative.

CMU has one of the leading art programs in technology and has been investing in fabrication tools that benefit all students, in addition the faculty and staff are top notch with an eye on the many different modes of working within the contemporary art world. A major strength at CMU is its focus on social practice and experimental new media approaches to art making.

Great Graduate Programs. The 50% of the student body of the university is graduate students (master and PhDs). Thus, you are in a very competitive and stimulating environment.