2006-10-09 09:48:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
I work for a university in their recruitment department - the most important thing is for you to find a course that you can get really excited about. If you are going to do well, you HAVE to love it.
If you are worried about careers, go to www.tqi.ac.uk - its a completely independent website that gives you careers information about all the courses at all the universities in the UK. You can even compare information, and find out what the students thought of it. You can also ask the universities you are interested in to provide you with careers information for their graduates - they are legally obliged to collect it.
Our stats at Cardiff show that when the big graduate recruiters are coming to us asking for people for the top training schemes, they don't tend to mind what degree you have so long as you have a good grade. Only around 30% of graduate vacancies specify a degree subject.
If it makes you feel any better, I've got a degree in Music and I've got a job - and I've never worked at Burger King! Even more importantly, my boss has a degree in Fine Art.
2006-10-09 23:11:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you mean by "good." Here's the situation. You will need to be very good to make it to the top in the school's elite artists.
Why worry about being at the top? Isn't it enough to have the degree?
Problem is that there are only a very limited number of high paying jobs in the art world. Very few get out of college and make anything but the barest minimum wages available. There are plenty of jobs for the BAs, setting up the newspaper grocery store ads, or laying out the car dealer pages. But these won't pay what you expect after 4 years of college.
The top jobs for entry level artists are recruited long before graduation. The reputations are made in the last couple of years of school. To have a chance at one of these, the artist needs to be the best of the best. I'm writing about those that get placed with top agencies, those who make it to work under the top magazine art directors. Those offers go to the ones who've demonstrated their chops by winning the awards and contests offered, and who have done the sweat producing internships.
I know lots of artists with degrees who, three or four years after graduation are STILL serving tables and washing cars, while they wait for the big breaks. Some of them eventually get it.
I don't know you. You may be the best artist in your high school, but once in college, you may find your talent lost in the much bigger pool of the best artists from several area high schools. No one, there will care about any of your work in high school. You start fresh, and, from that point on, you will need to produce the best, the FRESHEST work, EVER. Anything less, anything that resemble's last year is doomed.
AND, you do all this while maintaining your GPA and learning about where art has BEEN over the last 3 thousand years, in order to extrapolate what is expected of you this year, and next, and so on.
Me, I chose another route. I left the fine arts to go commercial. I learned the latest gear, the newest software and put my chops in the public eye. Do I have a good career? By most standards, probably not. But I am working the field I love, day in and day out.
Still waiting for my degree since 1968.
2006-10-09 10:25:45 · answer #2 · answered by Vince M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ive just finished last july and thie thing i have found with a ba fibne art is that im experienced in nearly everything yet not a proffessional in anything....its not really the best degree to get a career straight out of uni but im going back to go and do my post graduate in art direction which is in advertising, its only a year more than your average degree but itll really be worth it!
Look at what you want to do now and if you can work on as much as you can on your degree to perfect it andbecome emplyable at whatever it is....good luck, Peter (BA)
2006-10-09 09:54:00 · answer #3 · answered by P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, thers load of opeings in the art/design world, its good that you can follow a path that you enjoy, some people do print, some people do web design others go for the art side, its wide open.
2006-10-09 09:50:41 · answer #4 · answered by Kickback 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, so get off Yahoo! Answers and go and study BA in Art and Design.
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2006-10-09 09:50:54 · answer #5 · answered by Spreading The Word 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Money-wise, probably no. But if you love it, then do it. I'm telling you, not liking your job or career can be hell. There is no amount of money that can make you like your job. Money will make you go to your job and do your work, but you will suffer. Happiness is key in life.
2006-10-09 09:57:53 · answer #6 · answered by Phat Kidd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a very hard degree especially if you want a profit, I've advised most my friends against it, I myself am not seeking a degre in it, However I know its a very tough job to manage and to get "hired for"
2006-10-09 09:51:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It`s a cop out. Unless your seriously talented.
2006-10-09 09:50:55 · answer #8 · answered by redjonjak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO NOOOO i am doing a ba in fine art and i hate it!!!
2006-10-09 09:50:22 · answer #9 · answered by crunchymonkey 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Every one i know that has one of these degrees is very gainfully employed. At Starbucks.
2006-10-09 09:56:45 · answer #10 · answered by my_iq_135 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋