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Brief introduction of art college university

College of Arts University (AAU) was founded in 1929, located in the beautiful San Francisco, the most popular tourist attraction in the world. It is the largest private art and design university in the United States, one of the top art colleges in the United States, and enjoys a high reputation in the western Bay Area of the United States. Known as one of the most valuable colleges of fashion design and graphic design in the United States, it has trained many talents in the field of art design. It is world-renowned for graphic design, fashion design and animation design. Art college university ranks in the top ten in the income ranking of American art college graduates, and it is one of the institutions with the highest income for American art college graduates.

At present, the school has more than 17000 students, of whom nearly 20% are international students. The tenet of running a school is that artists are artists, emphasizing personalized high-quality teaching, providing diversified services for students of different ages and backgrounds, emphasizing professionalism and adopting industry standards. The employment rate of graduates is high, and more than 80% of graduates find jobs in the field of art and design.

AAU graduates are top experts in various industries all over the world, such as advertising design, animation production, interactive design, automobile design, motorcycle design, basic comics, cartoons, sketches, game software design, clothing design, fashion production, popular information, media communication, sculpture, interior design, 3D animation production, information management, television and movies, photography, toy design, etc., which invisibly promoted the rapid development of the global knowledge economy.

AAU was founded in 1929 by Richard Stephens, a famous American pure art painter and former creative director of Sunset magazine. At the beginning of its establishment, Richard Stephens only taught advertising art in schools, but soon a group of outstanding artists and designers gathered, and the courses offered were also expanding. At this time, the school also established its own teaching philosophy: educating future talents with promising teachers. It is one of the most famous cradles for cultivating business art leaders in the Bay Area.

Graphic design and fine arts in the Academy of Fine Arts can be said to be the oldest major in the school, and it is also the major that the school has gained international reputation. The university has passed the accreditation of American Independent College Accreditation Board (ACICS) and American Association of Colleges of Art and Design (NASAD) and become a member of American Western College Association (WASC), with high-level undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.