"without creativity there would be no
                       progress, and we would be
       forever repeating the same patterns"
                                              .....................         edward de bono



SJSU offers some of the nation’s highest quality and yet most affordable and accessible programs in art and design fields. With over 1900 students and nearly one hundred faculty and staff members, the School of Art and Design offers programs at the BA, BS, BFA, MA,and MFA levels in fields such as animation/illustration, digital media art, industrial, interior, and graphic design, photography, spatial and pictorial art, as well as art education and art history. Works by student and recent graduates have recently won awards the National Housewares Competition as well as film and animation festivals internationally. They have been included in the Whitney Biennial and other fine arts invitationals. Located in downtown San Jose, the nation’s eleventh largest city and at the heart of Silicon Valley, one of the nation’s leading centers for technology and innovation, SJSU provides internship and employment opportunities for graduates with many of the nation’s leading entertainment and artistic technology companies.