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Art Schools in San Francisco

By mayavfx on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 with

Art Schools in San Francisco

San Francisco, CA (population: 817,411) has four art schools within its city limits. University of San Francisco, the highest ranked school in the city with an art program, has a total student population of 9,008. It is the 221st highest ranked school in the USA and the 21st highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles).

Art students from San Francisco 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. In fact, in the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City Metropolitan area alone, there are 60 employed craft artists earning an average salary of $46,550. Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators in this area earn $76,590/yr and there are ** employed.

San Francisco lies in San Francisco county, which is one of the 57 counties in California. Overall, the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City Metropolitan area has 982,930 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $30/hr average worker wage, and a $61,940 average annual salary. Thus, about ** out of every 1000 jobs in San Francisco are held by fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators, and 0/1000 are held by craft artists.

Of the 4 art schools in San Francisco, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, San Francisco Art Institute comes out as the most expensive ($31,527/yr) for art students, with San Francisco State University as the lowest, reported at only $10,744/yr.