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Art Schools in San Jose

By mayavfx on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 with

Art Schools in San Jose

San Jose, CA (population: 977,893) has three art schools within its city limits. San Jose State University, the highest ranked school in the city with an art program, has a total student population of 31,280. It is the 1434th highest ranked school in the USA and the 121st highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles). To learn more about art programs in San Jose, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of art professors at San Jose State University such as Yen Lu Wong.

Art students from San Jose 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.

San Jose lies in Santa Clara county, which is one of the 57 counties in California. Overall, the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area has 888,960 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $32/hr average worker wage, and a $66,780 average annual salary.

Of the 3 art schools in San Jose, all of them have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, San Jose City College comes out as the most expensive ($11,291/yr) for art students, with Evergreen Valley College as the lowest, reported at only $9,070/yr.