Thursday, February 21, 2008

Best Portfolio Schools (or the ones I'm most aware of)

There are many portfolio schools in this world. Below are some of the main ones and their websites. There are a couple others I have kinda heard about, but the ones below I've heard about at conventions, from people in the industry and I've seen winning student entries in trade publications and award books from students in these programs with some frequency.

1) VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University)BrandCenter... use to be called AdCenter I think
www.brandcenter.vcu.edu

2) Miami Ad School
www.miamiadschool.com

3) Chicago Portfolio School
www.chicagoportfolio.com

4) Creative Circus
www.creativecircus.com

5) The Book Shop
www.thebookshopads.com

I don't want to clutter this post... so I will allow you the pleasure of my naive analysis of each school in another post.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmm, I am actually not surprised that VCU is one of the schools listed there. They have a pretty good art program already, so having a good program for portfolios/copywriting seems somewhat natural.

Ross said...

I'd still be interested in hearing your thoughts on these schools (albeit, as you mentioned, wondering how informed said thoughts might be).