The action-oriented

art, design, and architecture

school in San Francisco

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#1 art school in the nation ROI 83% of all students receive scholarships 100% of faculty are active practitioners 7:1 student to faculty ratio

California College of the Arts cultivates ideas, industry, and impact in the progressive San Francisco Bay Area, educating our students as global changemakers through purposeful practice and critical discourse.

CCA is expanding for craft, culture, and the city. Meet us here this fall.

Read stories about our community’s creative impact in Glance magazine.

Experience

All are welcome at CCA, where diverse cultures, practices, and ideas merge.

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Tour Campus

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Public Programming

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Futures of CCA

Connect

Our creative community makes a living by changing the world.

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Annika Bastacky (MFA Design 2020)

“Professionally, I’m an experience designer, but I moonlight as an artist, a performer, and a speculative designer.”

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Purposeful practices

BFA Printmedia 2010

Chelsea Ryoko Wong

BFA Interior Design 2017

Joyce Choi

BFA Ceramics 2019

Eleni Berg

BFA Animation 2021

Babak Saadat

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Come learn to make work that makes a difference.

Sep 01

Undergraduate application available

Apply for admission to CCA.

Sep 01

Graduate application available

Apply for admission to CCA.

Oct 01

Undergraduate spring priority deadline for first-year and transfer students

Deadline for first-year and transfer applicants to submit applications for spring semester to guarantee consideration for institutional scholarships.

Nov 15

First-year early action deadline

First-year applicants should submit an application by this deadline to guarantee merit scholarship consideration.

Jan 15

Graduate application priority deadline

Deadline to submit an application for institutional scholarship consideration and admission for the following academic year. Applications received after this date will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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