Academy of Art University

The Academy of Art University, earlier Academy of Art College, is an exclusive revenue driven workmanship school in San Francisco, California, in the United States. It was established as the Academy of Advertising Art by Richard S. Stephens in 1929. It has 283 full-time instructors and 1154 low maintenance showing staff, and around 15,000 students; it cases to be the biggest exclusive workmanship and outline school in the United States.

The school is one of the biggest property proprietors in San Francisco, with the fundamental grounds situated on New Montgomery Street in the South of Market district. Since 2007 the San Francisco city arranging commission has held more than twenty hearings identifying with conceivable infringement of the area use laws of the city, including the unapproved transformation of rent-controlled lodging to scholastic use; in May 2016 the city brought a claim against the school.

Substance 

1 History, accreditation and instructing

2 Athletics

3 Alumni

4 Staff

5 See too

6 References

History, accreditation and teaching

It was established in 1929 as a school for publicizing art. The author, Richard S. Stephens, a painter and magazine manager, lead it until 1951 when his child Richard A. Stephens assumed control, who 1992 was supplanted by his little girl Elisa Stephens. Under her administration, understudy numbers expanded from around 2000 to 18,000 by 2012. A private transport armada transports understudies amongst quarters and classrooms situated crosswise over San Francisco.

Foundation of Art University got local accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges in 2007. The school is a certify institutional individual from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. In inside engineering and plan, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (instructed or online) and Master of Fine Arts degree are both authorize by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation. The Master of Architecture degree has, since 2006, been licensed by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

The school offers partner, bachelor's and graduate degrees in various subjects.

Around 5% of understudies finish a four-year degree inside the designated time. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 31% of understudies finish a four-year degree inside 150% of that time (the "6-year graduation rate"). For online-just understudies, the 6-year graduation rate is much lower, at 6%; in mid-2015, around 35% of all understudies were online-only. For low maintenance understudies the 6-year graduation rate is 3%.

Around 58% of understudies are female.


Athletics

The school sports groups, the Urban Knights, contend as individuals from the Pacific West Conference in nine games in NCAA Division II.

In the 2014-2015 season, the men's crosscountry group had a second-put complete and the ladies' group had a record fourth-put complete, earned at the Pacific West Conference Championships. Valentin Pepiot, their third NCAA Nationals singular qualifier, was one of the top finishers from the PacWest in the postseason finale. The Academy of Arts earned a record 10 PacWest postseason respects. For the 2015, indoor and open air olympic style sports seasons, they had seven All-Americans respects and one NCAA singular champion in Jordan Edwards.

Alumni

Mobolade Ajomale, Canadian Olympic sprinter

Asencio, non-literal painter

Rick Baker, champ of an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling and enhancements for Maleficent

Lee Cheol-ha, film director

Lauren Conrad, actress

Deanne Fitzmaurice, picture taker, champ of a 2005 Pulitzer Prize

Patricio Buenrostro Gilhuys, Music video director

Vicky Jenson, film director

Kara Laricks, style designer

Bilal Lashari, Pakistani film chief and cinematographer

Chris Milk, music video director

Heidi Montag, actress

Rodrigo Prieto, cinematographer

Rudy Soedjarwo, film director