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  • What sort of reputation does Tokyo Communication Arts (TCA) have in the industry? Typically when people think of American Universities they think of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, NYU, etc. When experienced designers, and employers who want to hire designers think about design schools do they put TCA in the same league with Coventry, Academy of Art, Pforzheim etc? Is this a good school for someone looking to get the best level of education possible in this field in order to make a career and life style out of it, or is it just going to lead to a useless degree and debt that won't yield a job? And yes, I can speak Japanese. To the first answerer: It never fails to amaze me how no matter how clear I try to be, people can so misunderstand my question. Someone always seems to find whatever narrow gap I overlook. Let me try again. I was merely making an analogy. Ivy league schools have nothing to do with car design schools. But as someone who went to an undergrad that no one has really heard of I know that GPAs and skill are pretty meaningless when compared a big name school. THAT is the point I was driving at. Is TCA a big name school among the car design world in the way that Harvard is a big name among the American University world. Or the way Ferrari is a big name in the auto industry or Coca-Cola is a big name in the soda world or Stephen Spielberg is a big name in the film world. Is TCA a good school for someone to get on the right track to getting employed in the field or would I be better off elsewhere? Is that clear enough?

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    Academy of Art University is a great school to go to for Industrial Design and has a wonderful online program. I’m studying Industrial Design online now and am learning a lot! Since all of the instructors there are industry experts, I’ve been able to get a lot of valuable information, while preparing for success. In fact, I recently landed a great internship at Toyota, which has potential to become a full-time job once I graduate. You can see a list of firms that hire Academy grads by visiting: http://www.academyart.edu/industrial-design-school/index.html http://www.academyart.edu/

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Academy of Art University is a great school to go to for Industrial Design and has a wonderful online program. I’m studying Industrial Design online now and am learning a lot! Since all of the instructors there are industry experts, I’ve been able to get a lot of valuable information, while preparing for success. In fact, I recently landed a great internship at Toyota, which has potential to become a full-time job once I graduate. You can see a list of firms that hire Academy grads by visiting: http://www.academyart.edu/industrial-design-school/index.html http://www.academyart.edu/

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For me your question makes a very strange jump or three. I have no idea how TCA stands as s design school, but then jumping to THAT list of American universities and then crossing the Atlantic to English school leaves a few skid marks on my mental path. With the possible exception of NYU (unknown to me in detail) none of those three Ivy League schools have the slightest connection with automotive design or engineering (blip that Yale does Architecture) If you are going to do a comparison of some kind you are going to have to talk about places like the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and various California schools and then make a list probably starting with Michigan State and Ohio State of engineering strongholds that have developed with the auto industry and include design programs - although General Motors has long had its own operation for training people. And I have to wonder exactly how much future there is in car design considering the incredibly small number of companies doing automotive construction compared to the size of the world.

Mike1942f

For me your question makes a very strange jump or three. I have no idea how TCA stands as s design school, but then jumping to THAT list of American universities and then crossing the Atlantic to English school leaves a few skid marks on my mental path. With the possible exception of NYU (unknown to me in detail) none of those three Ivy League schools have the slightest connection with automotive design or engineering (blip that Yale does Architecture) If you are going to do a comparison of some kind you are going to have to talk about places like the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and various California schools and then make a list probably starting with Michigan State and Ohio State of engineering strongholds that have developed with the auto industry and include design programs - although General Motors has long had its own operation for training people. And I have to wonder exactly how much future there is in car design considering the incredibly small number of companies doing automotive construction compared to the size of the world.

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