School of the Art Institute of Chicago

As an undergraduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, you will be immersed in a community of artists, designers, scholars, and writers who share the belief that meaning and making are inseparable. Through the process of critique, you will be challenged by our award-winning faculty and your peers to be bold, experiment, and expand your vision.

Your studio courses will be rounded out with a full offering of art history, humanities, language, writing, science, and social science in addition to off-campus study and internship opportunities. You will have access to facilities with cutting-edge digital technologies as well as time-honored analog equipment. As a visual scholar, you will learn from the past so that you can help define the future.