Turning your passion into a real-world career. That’s inspired thinking.
By now you already know that you’re the “creative type.” Whether your passion is creating websites, or whether you spend time styling your own clothes. Whether you love designing posters and magazines, or whether you do your most creative work in the kitchen, you can’t imagine a life without expressing your unique vision.
Well, here’s some good news: These days you don’t have to give up your creative passion to have a satisfying, successful career. So all that time you’ve spent pursuing your artistic ideas is a good first step to your creative future. Now you just need to take it to the next level – by combining your creative talent with the hands-on technical and professional skills necessary in a competitive marketplace. At The Art Institutes, we specialize in helping students like you achieve their creative goals, preparing them for the real-world careers they really want. With all of the programs and resources available at The Art Institutes schools, there’s never been a better time to get started on your creative future.
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Ready to put your inspired thinking to work?
To be a successful creative professional, it may seem as if you need to be able to pull good ideas from out of nowhere. The truth is, real inspired thinking comes from being open to the fact that anything around you can be a source of inspiration – the colors, textures, and shapes of your everyday life. And it’s more than just recognizing a good idea when you have one. It’s about using all of your resources to turn that idea into a great one. Luckily, transforming a moment of inspiration into a real accomplishment is a skill that can be learned. At The Art Institutes schools, with our hands-on creative and applied arts curriculum, our students thrive on putting their inspiration to work by using the available technology and resources, meeting deadlines, sharing their ideas with colleagues, and by creating finished products that will fit nicely into a graduate portfolio that will help to get them noticed. What better way to show employers just how ready you are to put your inspired thinking to work?
School Highlights
The Art Institutes – America’s Leader in Creative Education
- We are a system of over 40 schools located throughout North America, providing an important source of media arts, fashion, design, and culinary professionals. There’s a school near you.
- We offer a range of master’s, bachelor’s, and associate’s degrees and diploma and certificate programs in the creative and applied arts.
- Many of our over 170,000 graduates have found successful careers as designers, creative directors, media producers, marketing specialists, chefs, digital illustrators, and more.
Certificates & Diplomas
- 3D Modeling for Animation & Games - Diploma
- Advanced Graphic Design - Diploma
- Advertising Design - Diploma
- Animation Art & Design - Diploma
- Baking & Pastry Arts - Diploma
- Baking & Pastry - Associate
- Baking & Pastry - Certificate
- Baking & Pastry - Diploma
- Baking & Pastry Arts Level 1 - Certificate
- Baking & Pastry Arts Level 2 - Certificate
- Commercial Photography - Certificate
- Commercial Photography - Diploma
- Culinary Arts & Restaurant Ownership - Diploma
- Culinary Arts - Certificate
- Culinary Arts - Diploma
- Culinary Arts Level 1
- Culinary Arts Level 2
- Culinary Arts: Baking & Pastry - Diploma
- Culinary Arts: Culinary Skills - Certificate
- Culinary Arts: Culinary Skills - Diploma
- Digital Design - Certificate
- Digital Design - Diploma
- Digital Film & Video - Diploma
- Electronic Music - Certificate
- Entrepreneurship & Restaurant Management - Diploma
- Entrepreneurship & Restaurant Ownership - Diploma
- Fashion Design & Merchandising & Foundation for Design - Diploma
- Fashion Design & Merchandising - Diploma
- Fashion Marketing & Management - Diploma
- Game Art & Design - Diploma
- Graphic Design & Foundation for Design - Diploma
- Graphic Design - Diploma
- Home Furnishings Merchandising - Diploma
- Hospitality & Restaurant Business Management - Diploma
- Independent Recording Arts - Certificate
- Interior Design & Foundation for Design - Diploma
- Interior Design - Diploma
- Photography - Diploma
- Professional Baking & Pastry - Certificate
- Professional Recording Arts - Diploma
- Residential Design - Certificate
- Residential Design - Diploma
- Residential Interiors - Diploma
- Residential Planning - Diploma
- The Art of Cooking - Certificate
- The Art of Cooking - Diploma
- VFX for Film & Television - Diploma
- Video Skills - Diploma
- Visual & Game Programming - Diploma
- Web Design & Interactive Media & Foundation for Design - Diploma
- Web Design & Interactive Media - Diploma
- Web Design - Certificate
- Web Design - Diploma
Associate Degrees
- Culinary Arts with a concentration in Baking & Pastry – Associate
- Accessory Design - Associate
- Advertising - Associate
- Animation Art & Design - Associate
- Audio Production - Associate
- Baking & Pastry Arts - Associate
- Broadcasting - Associate
- Culinary Arts - Associate
- Digital Filmmaking & Video Production - Associate
- Digital Photography - Associate
- Drafting Technology & Design - Associate of Science
- Fashion Design - Associate
- Fashion Marketing - Associate
- Fashion Merchandising - Associate
- Game Programming - Associate
- Graphic Design - Associate
- Graphic Design - Associate of Science
- Hospitality Management - Associate
- Industrial Design Technology - Associate
- Interior Design - Associate
- Interior Planning with AutoCAD - Associate
- Kitchen & Bath Design - Associate
- Photographic Imaging - Associate
- Photography - Associate
- Restaurant & Catering Management - Associate
- Video Production - Associate
- Visual Merchandising - Associate
- Web Design & Interactive Media - Associate
- Wines, Spirits & Beverage Management - Associate
Bachelor's Degrees
- Advertising - Bachelor
- Advertising Design - Bachelor
- Apparel Accessory Design - Bachelor
- Apparel Design - Bachelor
- Audio Production - Bachelor
- Computer Animation - Bachelor
- Culinary Arts - Bachelor
- Culinary Arts Management - Bachelor
- Culinary Management - Bachelor
- Culinary Management - Bachelor
- Design & Technical Graphics - Bachelor
- Design Management - Bachelor
- Design Studies - Bachelor
- Design Visualization - Bachelor
- Digital Film & Video - Bachelor
- Digital Film & Video Production - Bachelor
- Digital Photography - Bachelor
- Entertainment Design - Bachelor
- Fashion & Retail Management - Bachelor
- Fashion Design - Bachelor
- Fashion Marketing & Management - Bachelor
- Fashion Marketing - Bachelor
- Fashion Merchandising - Bachelor
- Film & Digital Production - Bachelor
- Food & Beverage Management - Bachelor
- Game Art & Design - Bachelor
- Graphic Design - Bachelor
- Hospitality Management - Bachelor
- Hotel & Restaurant Management - Bachelor
- Illustration - Bachelor
- Industrial Design - Bachelor
- Industrial Design Technology - Bachelor
- Interior Design - Bachelor
- Media Arts & Animation - Bachelor
- Photographic Imaging - Bachelor
- Photography & Design - Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Photography - Bachelor
- Set & Exhibit Design - Bachelor
- Visual & Entertainment Arts - Bachelor
- Visual & Game Programming - Bachelor
- Visual Communications - Bachelor
- Visual Effects & Motion Graphics - Bachelor
- Web Design & Interactive Media - Bachelor
