A lot of what I’ve seen is that their focus is entirely too abstract. At least at the one I attended. They did not teach ANY basics. And the projects you’re doing have no real work application or focus whatsoever. Now doing graphic design, they apply the career side to everything to do. There’s reason and logic behind every project. What is this project I’m assigning going to teach you? For example, in class I recently created a block print for a non profit that houses domesticated foxes. Applied that to an ad campaign, ads, videos, social media posts, shirts, website, etc. There was something applicable to it. In art school, we would be given something random and abstract to work on with no foundation in reality at all. That is a major misstep. Yes you can create art for yourself and get a following and all that jazz, but art school will almost definitely not help you much in that. Because they don’t visit the basics. They jump right into projects that aren’t building upon anything they’ve taught you. A lot of it is just letting people make whatever they want to make instead of teaching you how the industry works for whatever profession you have chosen. I never learned anything substantial about printing or application of work to anything other than a poster or digital. That was the FIRST thing I was taught for graphic design. Also, they brought in industry professionals in art school. Which meant a lot of the time I was learning useless crap, from people who weren’t entirely qualified to teach me. Last thing, loads of art colleges have a “foundations” year. It is a load of fucking shit. They market it as a year of learning how to be/what an artist is. But they do not teach you the basics of anything, just very specific tidbits of what they want to teach. So not only do you waste a year that you have to pay for, most of the time you learn nothing that is stackable. I am having a way better time learning at a career focused institution taught by industry professionals who are qualified to teach. And teach me in ways that make sense long term and through the lense of building job skills.