Leading Asia's Tongji "technical pressure" Parsons, do you want to go abroad to learn art? Last week, the 2021 QS ranking list was officially released, and we analyzed and interpreted the new changes and trends at the first time. Among them, the outstanding achievements of domestic colleges and universities in Art&Design/art design are remarkable. Tongji, Tsinghua, Yangmei, Hong Kong Polytechnic and Tianda They have successively entered the Top 50, and their rankings have also improved by different degrees.

Tongji University's "technology pressure" Parsons, do you want to go abroad to study art?

To our surprise, Tongji University ranked 13th in the world, leading Asian universities for four consecutive years. Careful students found that, Tongji University ranked higher than Parsons, the first in the United States last year It really represents the top academic achievements in the art field of our domestic universities.

Recently, many students have reported to us when consulting:

"Is Tongji University really better than Parsons?

Domestic universities are so good,

Don't you have to go abroad after studying art? "

In order to help students better understand the teaching differences between Chinese and foreign art schools, today we will take Parsons and Tongji as examples to make a horizontal comparative analysis in terms of curriculum, enrollment requirements, employment direction, etc., to help you find your own answers more intuitively~

Academic gold content

Strictly speaking, it is unfair to say that Tongji University has "technical superiority" over Parsons in ranking. Because of this year's QS evaluation, Parsons is the first time to participate in the evaluation in the name of The New School, similar to the "big family" of the ninth son of Lunyi, Parsons is also one of the six members of the new college 。

So judging from this year's ranking, Parsons can say that with its own efforts, together with other arts, science, music and performance related colleges, it has achieved a good result of ranking 14 in the world. At the same time, the new college's move also indicates that the integration of the six branches will continue to intensify, Students can share interdisciplinary academic resources after enrollment 。

There is absolutely no doubt about the academic value of Parsons. The following six figures are good proof:

　　 Parsons

·1 # 19 and 20 QS rank first and second in the United States

·81% # Percentage of students receiving scholarships and grants

·5100+# Undergraduate and graduate students

·10: 1 # Teacher student ratio

·Total number of research centers, research institutes and laboratories on campus # 43

·Professional courses provided by 33 #

Parsons offers interdisciplinary programs covering almost all fields of art and design, Fashion, industry, architecture and other fields are among the top in the world All teacher teams come from world-renowned artists, top scholars and creative professionals, who are at the forefront of their respective fields and industries. Students will gain the dual model of practical experience and professional knowledge. According to statistics, the employment rate of Parsons students is also among the top in the United States.

　　 Tongji University

In the QS ranking, Tongji University has led the Asian universities for four consecutive years. Tongji University's art and design majors are mainly concentrated in the College of Design and Creativity This international top school is developed from the Department of Art and Design, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University. The design education of Tongji University is deeply influenced by the German "Bauhaus" school, and has long been based on architectural education. Considering the name, Architecture Tongji University is the ace.

But since 2009, Tongji University draws on the latest concepts and models of the world's design and innovation disciplines, It has developed a series of design majors that connect with domestic and foreign majors, including many unique creative majors in China:

Tongji University currently offers art majors

Most of the teachers in the college have international education background. Their education philosophy closely follows that of international art colleges. They also focus on innovative thinking, interdisciplinary and sustainable development design. The goal of Tongji University is to become a Internationalization, innovation, foresight and research A world-class design institute.

The student Qiao, who got the CMU interactive offer this year, is from the School of Design and Creativity of Tongji University. During the school year, students have been exposed to interdisciplinary projects, international public welfare projects and business projects of school cooperative enterprises, with a very excellent background.

So to sum up, the School of Design and Creativity of Tongji University and Parsons are both comprehensive universities at home and abroad, and their educational concepts are similar, For example, the two universities pay attention to practice and interdisciplinary, and there is no dispute about the academic value of the two universities.

Admission requirements

Since they are both top art schools, Parsons and Tongji naturally have higher enrollment requirements. Similarly, Both colleges require students' English ability, professional ability, basic design ability, design thinking and creativity. The difference is the assessment methods of the two schools.

　　 Parsons

The general requirements for Parsons' undergraduate majors are:

　　 ·#15-20 collections, not limited to specific professional categories

·#Challenge autonomous proposition

·#A 500-600 word summary of the paper

·#Letter of recommendation: one academic, one professional

·#Transcript High School or Previous Stage

·#TOEFL 92/IELTS 7.0/PTE63/DET115

The requirements for Parsons' major in the graduate stage are:

·#Targeted requirements for different majors in the portfolio

·#1-2 pages of personal resume summarizing personal academic and work experience

·#Objective statement outlines the reasons for the application

·#At least 2 letters of recommendation

·#Transcript Undergraduate Transcript

·#TOEFL 92/IELTS 7.0/PTE63/DET115

　　 Tongji University

The admission rules for undergraduate students are the same as most of the domestic arts examinations. Admission requires students' professional examination scores and college entrance examination cultural scores. Total score=(professional unified examination score/full score of professional unified examination) × 400+(college entrance examination culture score/full score of college entrance examination culture) × 600 . Then, according to the total score from high to low, select the best students according to the number of students enrolled in the enrollment plan.

After enrollment, students will also undergo the second freshman qualification examination and professional retest. If they fail the test, they will also be disqualified. In short, it is a common domestic art examination process.

Then let's look at the less enrolled masters. The School of Design and Creativity has seven master's major directions, namely, industrial design, environmental design, media and communication design, interaction design, product service system design, design strategy and management, design history and theory. Students entering the graduate school of this major need to pass the preliminary and second examinations.

The initial phase is generally: English+historical theory+professional quick questions+politics;

Then it will follow 1: 1.2 to 1:1.5 Conduct a retest. The content of the second round exam is the same as that of the first round exam, but the interview link has been added. During the interview, students need to complete four parts of explanation, one is to answer the quick questions drawn, the second is to answer the motivation and planning of the postgraduate entrance examination, the third is to answer one to three English questions, and the fourth is to show the collection of works on site.

In general, compared with Tongji University in China Parsons School of Design Students need to spend more time on the collection of works, The higher language standard and the additional test of independent proposition at the undergraduate stage also make Parsons' application more difficult.

Due to the difference in the nature of the work collections of overseas universities and individuals, students with professional foundation and certain work projects will also have no way to start and no clue. They need tutors with overseas art background. Under the premise of tutoring, it will take 6 to 12 months to concentrate on preparing a set of work collections.

However, from the perspective of enrollment ratio, in 2021, there will be only about 200 graduates of all postgraduate majors in Tongji, and there will be only single digits for single majors, Tongji University is a little more difficult than Tongji University in terms of the number of students enrolled at the "top level" of undergraduate courses and the 2-3 rounds of review mode for graduate students.

Employment advantages

Both Parsons and Tongji have excellent employment advantages in academic background and college resources.

　　 Tongji University

As far as the domestic job market is concerned, the graduates of Tongji Institute of Design and Creativity have strong competitiveness in the industry and broad career development space. Some have founded famous companies such as Shangxia, Qiaozhong, Banmu and Longyu, and some have served as design directors and executives in famous domestic and foreign companies such as GAC, Sony and Greenland, Colleges and universities also regularly hold internships and school recruitment meetings on campus, which are very valuable.

The graduates of Tongji also have certain international competitiveness. According to the ranking of The Times, In 2019, more than 70% of Tongji's graduates who went abroad for further study were among the top 50 universities in the world.

　　 Parsons

But as the saying goes, talking about employment without talking about major is "playing rascal".

From this point of view, Tongji currently has only three major undergraduate courses: industry/product, environmental design and media and communication. The undergraduate course has nine directions, including three academic research disciplines, Compared with Parsons' 33 professional courses, the number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses is indeed a little weak.

Parsons, located in the business center of New York, has unique geographical advantages. In addition, the university encourages students to explore internship opportunities and other experiential work opportunities, and vigorously establishes contacts with other industries to help students as much as possible.

Parsons alumni are also leaders in design, academia, film, social science and other fields. For example: Tom Ford, Google's design director Ryan Germick, Fresh co-founder Alina Roytberg, architect Rose Connor wait.

To sum up, we have made three rounds of comparison through curriculum arrangement, enrollment requirements and employment direction. I believe you can also see the differences between the two universities clearly, As for the final choice, there is no difference between good and bad. You can make a choice based on your own actual situation.

But we also hope that you should not underestimate the difficulty of the assessment of foreign institutions. Although the national college entrance examination and postgraduate entrance examination are equivalent to thousands of troops crossing the single wooden bridge, when we also apply for the top overseas art institutions, we need to face competitors from all over the world, which is no less difficult.

　　 At present, the gap between the top universities at home and abroad is narrowing Tongji, Tsinghua, and Yangmei all pay more and more attention to the integration of interdisciplinary and new technology, and foreign universities also take comprehensive ability as an important inspection point. For our students, no matter what choice we make, we must devote ourselves to learning and strive to improve our comprehensive strength, so that we can realize our "dream of a famous school"!

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