Description Art Center College of Design (ACCD) hopes to put its graduates in the center of the design world. The college offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in such fields as advertising, film, fine art media, graphic design, illustration, photography, product design, and transportation design. The college has about 1,400 students enrolled. ACCD was founded in downtown Los Angeles in 1930 by advertising man Edward A. "Tink" Adams. Photographer Ansel Adams taught there and notable alumni include film director Michael Bay and members of the band, Linkin Park. In 1976 the school's campus moved from LA to Pasadena, California. It opened a second location, the "South Campus," in Pasadena in 2004.
Art Center College has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 218 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Art Center College employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 56% of employees would recommend working at Art Center College to a friend. This is based on 218 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
68% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Art Center College as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Art Center College.