With the arrival of the application season, are the students' dream school lists full? To judge whether a college has superior qualifications, we need to refer to many factors: academic research level, scientific research strength, teaching staff, school talent training flow to school reputation and honor, and the geographical location of hardware facilities It involves all aspects except teaching level. Today, the Natural Light Teaching and Research Center will be recommended by the top universities in six major disciplines, and ranked as a world famous university!
Recommended by top universities in six major disciplines
1. Architectural Design Department - MIT
Students who plan to apply for architectural design must know what foreign students dream of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This is an old and famous school founded in the 19th century, which has dominated the top of various lists all the year round.
MIT admission is strict and few people are recruited. In teaching, it emphasizes the coordination between architecture and environment. He is the leader in the industry in the sustainable development of buildings and the integration and application of new technology and new materials in buildings. MIT Architecture Department has rich diversity and creativity, and enjoys a good reputation internationally.
Before we understand the application requirements, let's first clarify what projects the Master of the School of Architecture has assigned to, so that we can apply in a targeted way. MIT's architecture major is roughly divided into these five directions:
Architecture+Urbanism
Art Culture and Technology
Building Technology
History Theory and Criticism
The five directions are different, corresponding to different degrees. According to key research schools, Master is divided into four branches, namely SMArhCS, MArch, SMBT and SMACT.
Here, students can access many different kinds of design methods and concepts. Critics and theorists from all over the world gathered together to introduce the problems and trends of today's architectural design to students.
In addition, the Department's teaching and research include design theory, visual research, history, technology and professional practice. As a divine school, MIT's application requirements must be very high, but no matter what kind of great divine school, there is no such thing as student performance, academic research achievements, self recommendation, and Niutui, so students need not keep a distance.
2. Pure Art Illustration Department - RISD
The Rhode Island Institute of the Arts (RISD) is the legendary Harvard University of art, and one of the oldest and most famous art and design colleges in the United States. RISD is the first pure art major in the United States. It is very artistic. It pays attention to the social significance of pure art, and is more concerned about the use of multimedia. In the pure art major of RISD, you will not only learn art theory and art history, but also create art.
Among them, the college can provide a number of undergraduate and graduate majors. Industrial design (MID), graphic design, illustration, photography, architecture, interior architecture and landscape architecture are the advantages of the college.
As a place with the largest number of artists in the United States, Rhode Island has a strong cultural and artistic atmosphere and many museums, including the Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum, History Museum, Art Gallery Museum, etc. The most famous one is the Rhode Island School of Design's own art museum.
RISD cultivates students' personal exploration of meaning and cultural representation by cultivating their strong visual skills, keen critical reasoning ability and understanding of a wide range of historical and social backgrounds.
Professors encourage students' freedom with an open and free attitude. The school running philosophy of the college is: "committed to the training of design and art talents, and improving the level of public art education, commerce and products."
RISD also attaches great importance to students' basic skills and their manual practice ability. In the first and second year of RISD's practical operation process courses, students will be exposed to various pure art categories.
In the course of art history, students will learn the art from the fall of the Roman Empire to the anti religious reform period, as well as the art of the 18th century until today.
There are also courses on classical art, including the remains of ancient Greece and Rome. During the third and fourth years of study, at least 19.5 hours of creative work are spent in the studio every week.
In the first year of foundation, which is often called "devil training", students need to take three studio courses. They include drawing painting, design design, and spatial dynamics and 3D. In addition to studio courses, you also need to take some humanities courses, such as art history, literature seminars and history, philosophy and social sciences.
Although RISD is known as the representative of academic teaching, it is not a traditional humanistic teaching model. It also hopes that students can develop in a diversified way and understand the essence of the major through multi-dimensional thinking.
3. Design Innovation Department RCA
As a well deserved "No. 1 university in the universe" in the art and design industry, RCA not only has the label of academic innovation, but also has always been the role of art education vane.
In order to stabilize his position as king, "interdisciplinary" is most mentioned in professional introductions on the official website. RCA aims to cultivate innovative and critical design leaders in teaching. At present, it has four departments and 29 majors, each of which is at the forefront of the major rankings.
In addition to the multi-disciplinary intersection of art, history, politics, sociology and other humanities that we are familiar with, art and biological science, science and engineering disciplines have also been integrated in RCA. Like:
Global Innovation Design(GID)
Innovation Design Engineering(IDE)
Digital Direction
Information Experience Design(IED)
Take Global Innovation Design as an example. GID is jointly founded by the Royal Academy of Arts and Imperial College of Technology. Dual degree (MA/MSA) is also set.
GID focuses on exploring and developing influential innovation through critical observation, disruptive design thinking, experiments, emerging technology exploration and enterprise activities in an interdisciplinary manner.
RCA, the host school, said that it hoped that students could come into contact with different views and diverse professional knowledge. Can critically question the current people, imagine creating new human experiences, promote behavior change, and generate cultural, economic, and social values.
In the first two semesters of RCA's innovative design major, in addition to doing some interdisciplinary projects, you also need to learn some courses jointly taught by RCA and Imperial College of Technology, such as applied engineering design, global innovative design theory and methods, and global development.
RCA Global Innovative Design Works
Design description:
How can we sail in a world without vision?
Sensaura is an inclusive design solution designed to solve how blind and partially blind people navigate in the world outside vision. The wearable device detects, processes and feeds back the environmental information required for navigation. This allows the blind and partially blind to travel independently and hands-free indoors and outdoors.
RCA Global Innovative Design Works
Design description:
The development of science and technology determines the future. How can the public shape the direction of scientists and have a say in their future? Anti culture is a workshop, experience and supporting tool that enables the public to imagine the unthinkable impact of meat grown in the laboratory and expand the boundaries of scientific thinking. Participants ate in a restaurant in Brooklyn in the future and served "laboratory bred" meat. Communicate science through situational experience, so that diners can immediately imagine a new future.
Later, students will travel to Beijing and Singapore to explore the unique environment of Asia and spend time in the fastest growing economies and the fastest growing regions in the world. GID students need to learn from the profound history and promote their own and work forward through their own personal practice.
Tsinghua is one of the best universities in China. They study in the School of Art and Design of Tsinghua University. Designers of GID project will participate in customized courses, which explore the intersection of social design, manufacturing design and cultural transfer. Tsinghua University provides unique multidisciplinary education experience to help students meet local scholars and become innovative leaders in the global world.
4. Visual Design Department Yale
When talking about Yale University, you may first think of such academic and serious disciplines as Yale Law and History. As a very influential private research university in the United States, Yale's many majors are even as famous as Harvard University and Princeton University.
For art students studying abroad, Yale's biggest attraction is that they have absolute authority in the field of visual arts. Yale's pure arts, photography, graphic design and other majors have been rated as the world's first all the year round, and is known as the most artistic member of rattan schools.
Every graduation season, President Subed's graduation speech to Yale students is popular all over the Internet. In the president's earnest speech, what is impressive is the Yale story he told in 2018.
Robert Dahl is a professor of political science who has taught at Yale University for 40 years. Because of his authority in the study of democracy and democratic system, Professor Dahl can be said to be one of the most respected political scientists of his time, and also a favorite tutor.
In 2014, Dahl died at the age of 98, and his former students expressed their grief for him. A student named Jeffrey Isaac recalled that although he liked Professor Dahl's class very much, he strongly opposed some of Professor Dahl's arguments. Isaac also published a paper refuting Dahl's theory.
To his surprise, Professor Dahl himself was the most supportive teacher in the department! Professor Dahl also agreed to serve as his thesis tutor.
Isaac said, "Professor Dahl spent countless hours in his office discussing with me the main points of the paper and the person I want to refute - himself! We objectively discussed the person 'Dahl' and the limitations of his argument, and guessed how 'Dahl' would respond to my argument."
Professor Dahl welcomed his critics, listened to their opinions and communicated with them. This is an open and active research spirit and teaching mode, which is the ultimate goal pursued by Yale.
The audience again and again confirmed Yale's open and inclusive school spirit, academic independence and freedom. This idea is also reflected in the Academy of Arts.
On the official website, we can't see the stereotype and authority. Under the protection of art, students build websites according to their own ideas. The combination of yellow and blue color contrast, unstable visual style and dynamic changes that will be updated from time to time make this small world fresh and vivid, full of experimental and critical ideas that abandon fixed thinking.
The enigmatic background, dense font arrangement, and chronological navigation bar design completely miss the point. The whole website seems to be a personal blog created by a beginner who does not know which page design. Click on different pages and find that the background of each page is different.
"The website is a wiki." The design concept of this website is just like Wikipedia. All students, teachers and faculty in Yale University School of Arts can edit the background and content of the website (except for hard content such as course introduction). The copyright of the website also belongs to the entire faculty and students of the art school.
5. Digital media system CMU
I believe that students who are very interested in technology and interaction design Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is no stranger. "Kamei" has a world-renowned computer school and is the first university in the world to offer a graduate degree in interaction design. Only a few students can meet the requirements for smooth admission every year, which is typical of colleges and universities that are strict in entry and strict in exit.
CMU has campuses in Pittsburgh, Qatar and Silicon Valley, and degree awarding programs are all over the world, including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and Latin America. In teaching, CMU pursues "innovation and inspiration". Its world-class liberal arts and technology projects, interdisciplinary cooperation and innovative leadership in education have all made it recognized.
In the atmosphere of "CS for all", students of all majors in CMU will be exposed to the content of CS to some extent. For example, CMU's interaction design belongs to the School of Computer Science, rather than the College of Fine Arts. This is also why CMU's art and design major has such strong code farming characteristics, among which the most famous are MDes and HCI, two "interaction design" majors.
CMU aims to cultivate students who have continuous influence on society, and it will give students the opportunity to make independent choices and change the world. But in addition to interaction design, CMU also has many interdisciplinary projects that combine "art design and computer", which are among the best in the United States.
But in fact, the most powerful educational weapon of cmu is interdisciplinary education, with various multidisciplinary combinations. For example, HCI (Human Computer Interaction) - Design+Computer science enables designers and architects to accept the baptism of Computer science, and enables coder to learn design thinking.
On the whole, CMU's artistic ties have a strong scientific and technological color. If your creation focuses on virtual reality, human-computer interaction, and physical computing, then the academic atmosphere of CMU is very suitable for you.
6. Fashion Design Department - CSM
Students of fashion design all know Central Saint Martin (CSM), which is located in the center of London. It is one of the largest and most famous art and design schools in Britain, and one of the four major fashion design schools in the world.
Over the years, many well-known alumni have been cultivated and employed by first-line fashion brands such as Dior and Gucci. Like John Galliano, who is in charge of Dior; Alexander McQueen, the former design director of Givenchy, whose talent is universally recognized, etc.
Saint Martin is a "monster". Even the stronghold of rebellion, innovation and creation. All in all, it is "exaggerated and bold". The campus style is willing to try and create new clothing concepts, and even shape a new body structure.
The avant-garde style has exported a large number of innovative designers to the worldwide fashion industry. Every year, the graduates' work release conference at London Fashion Week will become the focus of luxury brands and top international media to focus on and explore new designers.
The reason why so many alumni of high professional standards can be produced is that the Central Saint Martin School of Art and Design fully supports the extension of students' personality and carefully cultivates their creative thinking.
The students' design is usually characterized by avant-garde and boldness, and the exaggerated modeling is shocking. In school, it is often seen that students integrate ideas and professional skills into clothing design.
Here, students not only present a complete process to let audiences and brands understand your creative ideas, but also show their own unique creativity and personality. Therefore, imagination, originality and experimentation are the aspects that the school attaches most importance to a student's work.
Although, today, we finally summarized the most advantageous universities of the six major departments according to various standards. However, our goal is not to put art colleges into an endless chain of contempt. Colleges and universities should not be tamed by standards, and the high or low level of academic research cannot summarize the quality of all majors, including the art department. Colleges and universities with critical and innovative temperament are more in line with the characteristics of the art specialty itself. The art departments of traditional comprehensive colleges such as Yale are so inclusive and free in aesthetics, and we can't decide the order of our application list according to the ranking order utilitarianly. In the end, we should choose the most suitable college according to our own ideas.
More recommendations on ranking of professional colleges:
QS World Ranking of the Latest Universities in 2020
Ranking of American Universities in USNews in 2020
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