Royal College Of Art, UK

Royal College of Art, Royal College of Art, referred to as RCA.

Royal College of Art is located in London, and the course professors at Royal College of Art are internationally renowned artists, practitioners and theorists. Royal College of Art already has state-of-the-art facilities and excellent research resources, and has the environment to promote excellent creativity and intelligence. Royal College of Art is the only postgraduate university. At Royal College of Art, the art of learning and practice of students and staff has a unique design environment and has designed an artistic environment. In 1967, Royal College of Art was granted the power of education by the Royal Charter. The purpose of Royal College of Art was to promote learning, knowledge and professional ability, especially the level of fine arts. Through teaching, research and cooperation, we can create a good space for students to develop.

 

The center of the college has a strong belief: Project based education, face-to-face teaching and professional guidance. A belief in these ways to encourage graduates to "find their own voice". 　
 
Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) was carried out by Higher Education Funding Council for England in 2002, and RCA scored 5 points (Full Score) in the RAE. 　　

In 1997-2001 of official statistics, more than 92% of the students worked in professional or related fields after graduation.

 

　　
Development History

　　
It was founded in 1837, one of the most famous art and design institutes in the world, and the only Graduate School of art and design.

　　
Founded in 1837, formerly known as Government School of Design, located in Somerset House, Strand

　　
After the great Expo 1851 (first World Expo), it was reformed and renamed National Art Training School, and moved to the present South Kensington (Nan Kensington) campus.

　　
In 1896, it was renamed Royal College of Art.

　　
In 1967, he was granted the Royal Charter and had the right to independently award academic degrees.

　　
MA, MPhil and PhD are offered in three degrees. The total number of students is about 800, the average age is 26, and the total number of students is more than 100. Each year, from October to July, the number of visiting professors / practitioners, the group of young artists, designers and disseminators of the most intensive group, provides a group focusing on the design environment of art and art in the design environment. The reputation of the Academy in the world comes from outstanding art and design education, based on employees, students, and, of course, alumni. In addition to UK, students from about 35 countries, mixed backgrounds and talents make learning in the college a unique experience.

　　
The center of the college has a strong belief: Project based education, face-to-face teaching and professional guidance. A belief in these ways to encourage graduates to "find their own voice".

　　
Development situation

　　
IDE's 2001-2008 year survey data show that the employment rate of graduates in related industries is 98%.

　　
At present, the IDE Department MA attracts about 30 people every year (expanded in 2009), and the number of applications is about 100. The number of applicants in the first round of interview is 52, and the number of applicants is about half of the total number of interviews. The number of applicants is about 52.

　　
Every year, the income of graduates' works / profiles will be noted. Every student has CV. You will find that many undergraduates come from MIT, STANFORD, or have N AWARD, strong work experience and so on.

　　
According to the names of students, we can see that indeed the wide range of talent, the world basically allocated evenly distributed places (such as the ID department every year there will be 1-2 Koreans).

　　
The total number of students enrolled is about 2000-3000 per year.

　　
Chinese are very rare in schools. (on average, about more than 800 of the total number of students per year, about 1-3 mainland students, and about 10 students in Taiwan).

　　
Every year Prospectus changes one pattern (I have 02, 06, 07 Edition). 08 began a short introduction to Chinese.

　　
The tuition fee is not low. The annual increase is almost the same as that of IC, which is about 17000 in 02, 21800 in 07/08, 22800 in 08/09, and 22800 in the year of 09/10.

　　
Comparable with MIT, the teacher is strong and strong.

　　
In addition, RCA South Kensington in London, walking distance from the surrounding museums, the world's most famous V&A, Science Museum, are nearby.

　　
Next door is the Royal Albert Concert Hall (more than 200 years old), diagonally opposite the Royal College of Music, and the Imperial College London known as MIT in Europe. It has the most advanced mechanical engineering department in the world (RCA IDE and the Department of mechanical engineering of imperial science and Technology).