The Art Institute of Atlanta is one of The Art Institutes

The Art Institutes

-Fraud lawsuit:In August 2011 Education Management Corporation was investigated and sued by the United States Department of Justice and four states for illegal recruitment practices and fraudulent receipt of $11 billion in federal and state financial aid money....

, a system of over 40 For-Profit Colleges located in major cities throughout North America

North America

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

, all owned and operated by Education Management Corporation

Education Management Corporation

Education Management Corporation is an operator of private for-profit post-secondary educational institutions, primarily in the United States. The company's institutions provide primarily career-focused educational programs...

. , these 40 Art Institutes have graduated over 150,000 students, educating students in the creative and applied arts, including design, media, fashion

Fashion

Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...

, and culinary arts

Chef

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History

The Art Institute of Atlanta was founded in 1949 as Massey Business College, with diploma programs in basic business and secretarial skills. The school added liberal arts, fashion, and interior design during the next two decades. After becoming The Art Institute of Atlanta in 1975, the college shifted its focus to a creative applied arts curriculum. Accreditation by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools soon followed. In 1999, the college moved to its current location; a 5-story building in Sandy Springs and has since expanded to a second building across the street. In 2004, the school added Audio Production to their growing list of programs. The newest program, Fashion & Retail Management, was added in January 2007.

AiAtlanta is currently located at 6600 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd. in Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

. The student body is numbers 3,335 as of Fall 2010.

It awards associate's

Associate's degree

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 and bachelor's degrees, including Bachelor of Fine Arts

Bachelor of Fine Arts

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 (BFA) degrees, Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 (BA) degrees, and Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science

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 (BS) degrees, and also offers diploma and non-degree programs.

Current degree and diploma programs

Bachelor of Arts

• Advertising
  Advertising
  Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
  
  
• Audio Production
• Fashion
  Fashion
  Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...
  
   & Retail Management
• Visual & Game Programming

Bachelor of Fine Arts

• Digital Filmmaking & Video Production
• Game Art & Design
• Graphic Design
  Graphic design
  Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
  
  
• Illustration
  Illustration
  An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information by providing a visual representation graphically.- Early history :The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric...
  
   & Design
  Design
  Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
  
  
• Interactive Media Design
• Interior Design
  Interior design
  Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...
  
  
• Media Arts & Animation
  Animation
  Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
  
  
• Photographic Imaging
• Visual Effects & Motion Graphics

Bachelor of Science

• Culinary Arts Management
• Food & Beverage Management

Associate in Arts

• Audio Production
• Culinary Arts
• Graphic Design
  Graphic design
  Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
  
  
• Interactive Media Design
• Photographic Imaging
• Video Production
• Wine, Spirits & Beverage Management

Diploma programs

• Advertising Design
• Commercial Photography
  Photography
  Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
  
  
• Culinary Arts—Baking & Pastry
• Culinary Arts—Culinary Skills
• Digital Design
  Design
  Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
  
  
• Residential Interiors
• Video Skills
• Web Design
  Web design
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External links

• The Art Institute of Atlanta official website
• Map of The Art Institute of Atlanta
• The Art Institutes official website
• Art Institute of Atlanta: Intro and Class Options
• The Art Institutes on MySpace
• The Art Institutes on Facebook
• The Art Institutes on Ai Insite

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