City: Savannah, GA

Category: Education

Telephone: (912) 525-5100, (800) 869-7223

Address: 342 Bull St.

Description: The Savannah College of Art and Design has grown tremendously since its founding in 1979 with one building and 71 students. Today SCAD is the largest art school in the country with its enrollment of more than 7,000 students. The college has almost 60 buildings (and seemingly constantly buying more) spread throughout the Historic and Victorian Districts, many of them of historic significance and beautifully renovated by the school. The college’s restoration efforts have been so striking that the National Trust for Historic Preservation awarded SCAD the National Honor Award for Historic Preservation in 1994.The college offers bachelor’s degrees in fine arts and master’s degrees in arts, urban design, fine arts, and architecture. Among its 30 fields of study are historic preservation, interior design, painting, photography, furniture design, and production design. Programs involving computer art and graphic design attract scads of students, if you’ll pardon the expression. The student-teacher ratio is 18 to 1.SCAD has more than 50 student organizations and an intercollegiate athletic program fielding teams in basketball, golf, tennis, volleyball, swimming, rowing, cross-country, lacrosse, horseback riding, baseball, softball, and soccer. Although founded and headquartered in Savannah, SCAD also has campus facilities in Atlanta and France.