Your suggestions, please, for colleges for our grandson. Where are the good MEDIA ARTS programs?

My grandson just graduated high school in Boston. We've invited him out here to visit in September. He's going to take a year off, but then plans to find a school which will allow him to major in MEDIA ARTS.

One school we have located is Eastern Oregon University, in La Grande, Oregon, out to the east of Portland.

http://www.eou.edu/ma/programs.html

Grandpa has asked me to come up with a more complete list of schools that have so-called media arts programs -- which may include, but are not limited to, the following:

FILM STUDIES AND MUSIC AESTHETICS
DIGITAL MEDIA AND CONTENT FOR NEW MEDIA APPLICATIONS
VISUAL COMPOSITION
NEWSPAPER AND TV JOURNALISM
ADVERTISING AND WEB DESIGN

Anything you can add to this thread will be very much appreciated.

Thank you.

Radio Lady in Oregon

http://www.calarts.edu/

Do you know anyone who has gone there?

Calarts has lots of music and arts but I'm not aware if they have some of the media production stuff you mentioned.

It may be a bit avante-garde for him...

Best luck, there should be plenty of things to choose from..

If I may be so bold.

Excellent film, television and music schools. Many notable alumni, not including me (I'm an alumnus, just not notable.)

Linda Alvarez TV journalist and anchorwoman
Army Archerd Veteran entertainment columnist and broadcaster
Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. (d.) First African American to win Wimbledon tennis title; Human rights activist
Sean Astin Actor, "Rudy" and "Lord of the Rings"
Catherine Bell Actress, Movies and Television show "Jag"
Harve Bennett Writer/Producer/Director, notably of "Star Trek" films
Corbin Bernsen Actor, most notably "L.A. Law", "Major League" and "Major League Part II"
Lloyd Bridges (d.) Film and television actor
Carol Burnett Actress, Emmy Award Winner
Mark Canton Former Chair, Columbia and TriStar Pictures; President of Canton Company
Sylvia Chase Emmy Award-winning TV journalist
Francis Ford Coppola Six-time Academy Award-winning movie producer (The Godfather I, II, III)
Marilyn McCoo Davis Seven-time Grammy Award winner (Fifth Dimension)
Mark Harmon Television and movie actor; Former UCLA football quarterback
Heather Locklear Television actress (Dynasty, Melrose Place, Spin City)
Frank Marshall Movie producer (Sixth Sense, Back to the Future, Snow Falling on Cedars)
David Neuman President, Walt Disney Television
Randy Newman Composer/Singer, "I Love L.A."
Michael Ovitz Former Executive, The Walt Disney Company; Head of UCLA Medical Center fund-raising campaign
Rob Reiner Actor/Director/Producer, actor in "All in the Family," producer of "American President," director of "A Few Good Men"
Gene Reynolds Six-time Emmy-winning Producer/Director "M*A*S*H"
Tim Robbins Actor/Producer/Director, produced "Dead Man Walking"
Jackie Robinson (d.) UCLA's only four-sport letterman; First African American to play Major League Baseball; Former Dodgers great; Hall of Famer
Darren Star Producer of television shows "Sex In The City" and "Melrose Place"
George Takei Actor, most notably as Mr. Sulu in "Star Trek"
Michael Warren Actor, notably "Hill Street Blues" and "City of Angels;" Basketball All-American
John Williams 27-time Emmy, Grammy, Academy Award-winning composer ("Star Wars")
Jane Yamamoto Television newscaster, Fox 11 Los Angeles

this young man will have to work to pay for school.

I lived at a woman's boarding house and worked for room and board. I don't remember what the tuition was, but I had to return to Florida in 1960 and then finally finished my college career at the University of Miami in 1962.

Wonder how expensive UCLA would be for an out-of-stater in these more modern times?

And how competitive?

I was lucky enough to be a California resident when I went there - such a bargain for a world-class education.

community college in order to qualify for in-state tuition, and bring up his grade point average. He was a New Yorker and his parents were immigrants to this country, so he had to make it largely on his own finances.

All in all, I remember UCLA fondly, but had so many other competing issues in my life at that time that I didn't get the most out of it.

Thanks for posting, Richardo. I do enjoy reading your responses!

Making peace a priority,

Radio Lady Ellen in Oregon

I've been really sick with flu since last Friday, 8/17.

Thanks for keeping this thread live!

Savannah College of Art and Design. I've provided a link to their cinema studies but they have programs in all arts areas, just link back to their home page and look at the course list.

http://www.scad.edu/cinema-studies/

With parents in Boston, Massachusetts and grandparents in Portland, Oregon -- I have no idea where this young man will end up! But we'll try to help him out, wherever he goes.

Austin is a very liberal town with beautiful scenery and plenty of bars. :)

Here's a link or two.

http://rtf.utexas.edu/
http://communication.utexas.edu/

:thumbsup: Great city, and a nice campus

was interviewed for a semi-conductor company.

The job went to someone else, but we have been back at least twice in the past decades. We usually end up staying in San Antonio, and then driving to Austin.

Thanks for the link and the suggestions, both of you!

He went to an in-city school in Boston, but more than 50,000 people?

That's a really BIG school!

Obviously, I can't attest to the quality of these programs, but just playing around with a search engine will generate a ton of results:

University of Arizona: http://web.cfa.arizona.edu/mediaarts/students/degrees-undergrad.php

Temple University: http://www.temple.edu/fma/undergraduate/index.htm

James Madison University: http://smad.jmu.edu/

California College of the Arts: http://www.cca.edu/academics/mediaarts/

University of Montana: http://www.sfa.umt.edu/mart/home.html

Drexel University: http://www.drexel.edu/westphal/

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: http://www.emac.rpi.edu/

Southern Illinois University--Carbondale: http://mcma.siu.edu/inner.php?pageID=202

ETA: At several sites, including CollegeView (below), you can find specific majors and then search for colleges that have them. Just type in "Media Studies," "Media," or a related search into the engine, click "Go," and results should pop up. Select the ones you want, and click "Add" to put them into a separate list. Click "Search Now," and a number of colleges should pop up. When I tried it, there were lots, but it certainly narrows down the field from the 2000+ colleges and universities in the United States. Plus, it allows him to pick from a wide range of schools in terms of geography, school/class size, extracurriculars, etc.

http://www.collegeview.com/collegesearch/areaofstudy.jsp

I think my husband wants me to concentrate on schools in Oregon and maybe Washington state.

But it's good to have all this information coalesced into one thread. I do appreciate your searches.

Making peace a priority,

Radio Lady Ellen in Oregon

I'm going there now and I love it. #1 undergrad film department. www.csf.edu

I'm on their front page too! The guy reading inbetween two trees is me! I love the school, and so do most people serious about their art

Thanks again.......

Though I'm sure there have to be shitloads of excellent small private colleges as well, if he isn't in gigantic schools with tens of thousands of students, such as the Art Institute of New York, New York Film Academy, and The International Film Institute of New York.

One can also look at Sarah Lawrence, St. Mary's in Winona MN, and Bard College, all of which are bloody excellent schools (and Sarah Lawrence and Bard have the advantage of non-rigid degree structures, leaving class choice almost entirely up to the student, creating a truly individually tailored program).

A lot will have to include what financial help he can get.

His biological mother earns a bunch of money, and I guess his stepmother must do pretty well, too.

His father is "retired" at 48 years of age with bipolar disease, and has just qualified for Social Security disability payments.

I don't know how a school will look at parental income in those circumstances.

That's just my thinking, and I could well be wrong.

Great school, 'though.

Trust me on this.

Grandson is in Boston, we're in Portland, OREGON, in case you didn't know.

I guess you've had a bad experience with this school???

I say this, but I don't really know if they have what he would want. I just know it's a good art school.

Very nice response and I do appreciate it.

And take media arts classes on the side.

Just about everything on your list above is basically high-tech vocational training that will help him get an entry-level job, make a decent living, as long as he wants to remain doing those things and not going into much else.

Meanwhile, unless he is self-employed for life, his managers will be graduates from the business program. Neat how that works, isn't it? You spend the same amount of money on tuition as they do, yet they have the capacity to make 2x, 4x, 10x your salary.

If he wants to stay in Boston its a state school and pretty reasonably priced.

It's one of the best schools in the US for this field of study but is also the most competitive.

From Wikipedia:

"The program is one of USC's most competitive specialty schools, for both undergraduate and graduate programs. The BA program in film production accepts 50 students per year, while the Critical Studies department accepts 75 for its BA program, 20-25 for its MA program, and 10-12 for the Ph.D.; the BFA program in Writing for Film and Television accepts only 24 students per year. The MFA program in film directing accepts 48 new students each year and the MFA for screenwriting accepts 32 students."