Real-World Experience    

• The Shore Art Gallery (on campus) and ACU-Cockerell Gallery (downtown Abilene) provide opportunity for viewing work by renowned national and regional artists and designers.
• Students can Study Abroad in European art centers.
• The department provides real-world experience through field trips to art and design production firms and student work with local art and advertising agencies.
• ACU's facilities include high-tech computer labs as well as sculpture, ceramics and printmaking studios.    

Exceptional Degrees 

 
• Students are prepared for careers as an artist, graphic designer, art teacher, art director, illustrator, gallery or museum coordinator, interior designer - or architect.
• ACU grads are accepted at exceptional rates into their top choices of graduate schools.
• The interior design program is accredited by the Council for Interior Design.
  
• Graduates have become art directors, Web designers, project managers, graphic designers, multimedia designers, and more - working for prestigious companies such as Comedy Central, Landry's Seafood and Focus on the Family.

Faculty Who Make the Difference 

• All full-time instructors hold the terminal degree in their area of specialty.
  
• The department has low student:teacher ratios in studio classes.
• Art department faculty members are not only committed teachers but passionate artists. Each year, they show their work in competitions and exhibitions in various regional and national arenas.