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Art Schools in Detroit

By mayavfx on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 with

Art Schools in Detroit

Detroit, MI (population: 901,160) has four art schools within its city limits. College for Creative Studies, the highest ranked school in the city with an art program, has a total student population of 1,405. It is the 1959th highest ranked school in the USA and the 39th highest in the state of Michigan (#1 is Kalamazoo College).

Art students from Detroit schools who go on to become artists, animators, animation designers, animation artists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 8,900 people working as fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $50,630. Also, Craft artists make on average $33,070 per year and there are about 5,380 of them employed in the US today.

Detroit lies in Wayne county, which is one of the 62 counties in Michigan. Overall, the Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn Metropolitan area has 705,820 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.4% unemployment rate, $22.55/hr average worker wage, and a $46,900 average annual salary.

Of the 4 art schools in Detroit, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, College for Creative Studies comes out as the most expensive ($28,628/yr) for art students, with Wayne County Community College District as the lowest, reported at only $3,274/yr.