Savannah College of Art and Design

About the College

Savannah College of Art and Design, SCAD buiding The Savannah College of Art and Design was founded in Savannah, Ga., in 1978 with a curriculum designed to provide an excellent arts education and effective career preparation for students. Today, with three locations as well as online programs, the college continues to adhere to this mission, attracting students from all 50 states and from more than 90 countries.

SCAD exists to prepare talented students for professional careers, emphasizing learning through individual attention in a positively oriented university environment. The goal of the college is to nurture and cultivate the unique qualities of each student through an interesting curriculum, in an inspiring environment, under the leadership of involved professors.

The Savannah College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit institution accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097; telephone number 404.679.4501) to award bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The college offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Architecture, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Fine Arts and Master of Urban Design degrees, as well as undergraduate and graduate certificates. The five-year professional M.Arch. degree is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

Class size is small, allowing each student the opportunity to receive individual attention. Faculty members have distinguished backgrounds in their fields. An English as a Second Language program and dedicated international student services staff are available to assist international students with the adjustment to college life in the United States.




Mission Statement

Poetter hall The Savannah College of Art and Design exists to prepare talented students for professional careers, emphasizing learning through individual attention in a positively oriented university environment.




Accreditation

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
The Savannah College of Art and Design is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097; telephone number 404.679.4501) to award bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

Accredited by a CHEA-Recognized Accrediting OrganizationA national advocate and institutional voice for self-regulation of academic quality through accreditation, CHEA is an association of 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities and recognizes 60 institutional and programmatic accrediting organizations.




National Architectural Accrediting Board
The five-year, professional master of architecture degree offered by SCAD is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

In the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board, which is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture, recognizes three types of degrees: the bachelor of architecture, the master of architecture and the doctor of architecture. A program may be granted a six-year, three-year or two-year term of accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards. The SCAD professional M.Arch. degree program holds the maximum term of accreditation from the NAAB.

Master’s degree programs may consist of a pre-professional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree, that, when earned sequentially, constitute an accredited professional education. However, the pre-professional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.




Georgia Professional Standards Commission
The master of arts in teaching offered by SCAD has been recommended for developmental program approval by the Evaluation Review Panel of the Georgia Professional Standards Commission with final approval pending.

The Georgia Professional Standards Commission was created by the Georgia General Assembly as of July 1, 1991, to assume full responsibility for the certification, preparation, and conduct of certified, licensed, or permitted personnel employed in the public schools of the State of Georgia. The Commission is also responsible for the development and administration of teacher certification testing.




Facilities
The college's first academic building was the Savannah Volunteer Guard Armory, which was purchased and renovated in 1979. Built in 1892, the Romanesque Revival red brick structure is included on the National Register of Historic Places. Originally named Preston Hall, the building was renamed Poetter Hall in honor of co-founders May and Paul Poetter. SCAD soon expanded rapidly, acquiring buildings in Savannah's downtown historic and Victorian districts, restoring old and often derelict buildings that had exhausted their original functions.

By restoring buildings for use as college facilities, the college has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Historic Savannah Foundation and the Victorian Society of America, among others. The college campus now consists of more than 60 buildings throughout the grid and park system of downtown Savannah. Many buildings are located on the famous 21 squares of the old town, which are laden with monuments, live oaks and an undeniable Southern-Gothic feel that is sought by the many movies filmed there.

Features located on or near the college buildings include the Riverfront Plaza and Factors' Walk — River Street's restored 19th-century cotton warehouses and passageways include shops, bars and restaurants — and City Market, Savannah's restored central market, features antiques, souvenirs and small eateries.

Located in Atlanta's burgeoning Midtown, SCAD–Atlanta facilities provide ample classroom and exhibition space, well-equipped computer labs, library, photography darkrooms, printmaking and sculpture studios, a dining hall, fitness center, swimming pool and residence hall.

The college's facilities in Lacoste, France, date back 500–600 years. Founded by Bernard Pfriem, an American artist, in the 1970s and called the Lacoste School of the Arts, the small town of about 300 permanent inhabitants is steeped in rustic charm. Lacoste is a medieval village in Provence, which is in Southern France. The beautiful countryside is an asset to the college as an inspiration for the courses taught there. Enrollment in Lacoste usually is for one quarter of the academic school year.




Students
Most students live off-campus, which is to say outside the residence halls, as there are no formal campus grounds other than those contained by the building properties themselves. There are nine buildings that provide student housing and range from one- to three-person, single-room residence halls; to four-bedroom student apartments. The residence halls are Weston House, Dyson House, Oglethorpe House, Turner House, Turner Annex, Pulaski House (an all female residence hall), Forsyth House, Gaston House, Boundary Village, and Barnard Village (completed in 2007). SCAD has no fraternities or sororities.

The college has two newspapers: The Chronicle and the entirely student-run District. Student media also extends to SCAD Radio, an Internet-broadcast radio station; The Network, the student television production group; The Hive, a student-run online community; and Agency Five, a student-run advertising agency. There are 23 student organizations related to academic programs and another 22 that are recognized but not affiliated with any particular programs.

Students are expected to focus on three areas of study: foundation studies (art fundamentals such as drawing, color theory and design), liberal arts (math, science, art history and English needed for accreditation) and their major area of discipline (a specific course of study such as graphic design, sequential art or animation).

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