School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Established as the Chicago Academy of Design in 1866, School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the oldest certified independent schools of art and design in the country. It helps in instructing artists, designers, and scholars and provides exciting education in the studio arts and exhibition opportunities for its students. The school offers nationally accredited undergraduate, graduate and post-baccalaureate programs to more than 3,600 students every year from around the world. The school awards a variety of scholarships and grants to students to help attract a talented group from diverse economic backgrounds to the school.

It has comprehensive and lively spectrum of study zones, such as Art and Technology Lessons, Fashion Design, Animation, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Interior Architecture, Ceramics, Fibre and Material Studies, Painting and Drawing, Photography, Visual Communication, Writing and Visual and Critical Studies. A complete program in Liberal Arts highlights the critical role that humanities, mathematics, and sciences play in artist... Read more

Established as the Chicago Academy of Design in 1866, School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the oldest certified independent schools of art and design in the country. It helps in instructing artists, designers, and scholars and provides exciting education in the studio arts and exhibition opportunities for its students. The school offers nationally accredited undergraduate, graduate and post-baccalaureate programs to more than 3,600 students every year from around the world. The school awards a variety of scholarships and grants to students to help attract a talented group from diverse economic backgrounds to the school.

It has comprehensive and lively spectrum of study zones, such as Art and Technology Lessons, Fashion Design, Animation, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Interior Architecture, Ceramics, Fibre and Material Studies, Painting and Drawing, Photography, Visual Communication, Writing and Visual and Critical Studies. A complete program in Liberal Arts highlights the critical role that humanities, mathematics, and sciences play in artists' development delivers an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries, and state-of-the-art facilities. The university has notable graduates and faculty such as Michelle Grabner, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Hunt, Georgia OíKeeffe, Cynthia Rowley, Nick Cave, Jeff Koons, and LeRoy Neiman.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is located in city centre Chicago and has an active campus fuelled by various undergraduate groups, organizations and leadership prospects. With more than 60 undergraduate groups and companies and a full schedule of events, SAICs Site Life office offers countless ways to get involved in the SAIC community from school-wide actions such as the Halloween Ball to the Eye and Ear Clinic's film screenings, and from weekly Latin dancing and yoga courses to philosophy discussions and art critiques.

SAIC receives between 30 and 40 applications for Tuition Exchange scholarships per year and is eligible to award between five and six. The sum of the annual scholarship shall be determined on an annual basis by the consortium. For the academic year 2020–21, the set amount is $38,000 and for the academic year 2021–22, the set amount is $39,000.