You learn from artists and professionals in a hands-on environment - As you enter The Art Institute of Toronto with your talent and your educational goals, we provide the education to help you develop your creative, personal, and professional potential. An Art Institute education is not a process where we simply hand you skills and knowledge. Here, you learn from artists and professionals in a hands-on environment.
The Art Institute achieves its mission by supporting the following goals:
To maintain an educational setting that fosters creativity, critical thinking, and innovation.
To uphold a standard on institutional excellence through the recruitment of experienced professionals to join our faculty and staff.
To provide student-focused services that enhance student development both personally and professionally.
To ensure an environment of academic freedom and responsibility, collegiality, and professionalism with policies driven by faculty, staff, and students.
To provide content and methodology required of traditional academic offerings in the major areas of knowledge and skills that lead to lifelong learning and careers.
To deliver learner-centered instruction by faculty who exhibit excellence in teaching, and possess appropriate academic credentials and industry-related experience.
To provide safe, clean, and accessible facilities.
To maintain equipment to industry standards.
To develop and revise curricula through regular reviews by a community that involves employers, advisors, faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
To assist graduates in beginning and furthering their careers.
To achieve institutional objectives of student retention, completion, employment and salaries.
To periodically update strategic plans for institutional development and growth.
Our classroom often mimics what you'll find on the job - Our curriculum at The Art Institute is carefully scrutinized and developed by industry leaders and prominent employers who tell us what skills are needed in the workplace. This means that your education is relevant, practical, and hands-on. In fact, the classroom often mimics what you'll find on the job. Deadlines, pitching ideas in front of the class, and working in teams helps you flex those creative muscles. Many of our faculty are also working outside of the classroom so you'll learn what's happening out there...in here.
We are designed to encourage your success - Even our career services are designed to encourage your success. From helping you obtain part-time work while you are attending school to actively supporting soon-to-be graduates' job search, faculty and staff are committed to ensuring that each and every student receive the support he or she needs.
