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The information presented below is required by the Student Right-to-Know Act as amended by the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA). Institutions are required to disclose their graduation rate information for first-time freshmen who graduate within six years of starting their studies. The current rate for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is 67 percent. This information does not include transfer, exchange, or special certificate students for whom the graduation rate is much higher.

The first-year retention rate of first-time, full-time bachelor’s degree-seeking students entering the institution during the fall 2023 period as reported to IPEDS is 82 percent.

Artists, Designers, and Scholars as Teachers

SAIC’s faculty members are artists, designers, scholars, influencers, and innovators. They are mentors and educators, but equally, peers and collaborators. Our faculty offer real-world insight because they are experienced practitioners who have been in your position before.

They know what it’s like to re-evaluate their work and explore the idea of being an artist, a designer, and a scholar. And they are passionate about informing the process from conception to execution through unabashed discourse and critique.

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• 2022–23 SAIC Degree Program Faculty
• 154 Full-time Faculty
• 625 Part-time Faculty
• 779 Total Faculty in Fall and Spring semesters

Faculty Breakdown by Position

• 57 Professors
• 73 Associate Professors
• 17 Assistant Professors
• 7 Full-time Visiting Artists
• 154 Full-time Faculty
   
• 49 Professors, Adjunct
• 94 Associate Professors, Adjunct
• 73 Assistant Professors, Adjunct
• 216 Total Adjunct (ranked) Part-time Faculty
   
• 409 Lecturers, Senior Lecturers, Professors Emeriti

Faculty Race/Ethnicity

• 0.3% American Indian/Indigenous or Alaska Native
• 9.1% Asian
• 7.6% Black or African American:
• 6.7% Hispanic/Latinx
• 0.0% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
• 4.8% Multiracial
• 71% White
• 0.5% Unspecified 

Schools to which we currently send/host students for study abroad.

* Student pays SAIC's usual tuition with no additional tuition fees to host school unless mandated for a particular class (e.g., studio fee). Unless otherwise noted, quoted amounts exclude expenses for visa fees, air and ground transport, living expenses, exchange rate fluctuations, health insurance coverage, and on-campus or off-campus accommodation, which may vary according to location, airline, and time of travel.

Semester-long exchange options for AICAD students/schools only. AICAD Exchange is currently on pause for spring 2024. AICAD is currently reviewing the program and will decide if we will resume for 2024–25 year at a later date.

** Student pays SAIC's usual tuition with no additional tuition fees to host school unless mandated for a particular class (e.g., studio fee). Unless otherwise noted, quoted amounts exclude expenses for air and ground transport, living expenses, health insurance coverage, and on-campus or off-campus accommodation, which will vary according to location, airline, travel distance and accommodation choice.

Frequent sites for outgoing SAIC study abroad students—not exchange partners.

*** Student pays SAIC's usual tuition with possible additional tuition fees payable to host school depending the difference between SAIC's and the host school's tuition fees, currency exchange rates, and the number of credit hours taken. Unless otherwise noted, quoted amounts exclude expenses for visa fees, air and ground transport, living expenses, exchange rate fluctuations, health insurance coverage, and on-campus or off-campus accommodation which can vary according to location.

Outcomes represent 373 out of 573 alumni who completed their bachelor’s degrees one year after graduation, a 65.1% knowledge rate.

• 77.2% are employed
• 15% are continuing their education
• 92.2% career outcomes

Outcomes represent 171 out of 262 alumni who completed their master’s degrees one year after graduation, a 65.3% knowledge rate.

• 89.5% are employed 
• 1.2% are continuing their education 
• 90.6% career outcomes

Pass rates for the last five years for SAIC graduates who have taken the exam for the purpose of board certification with the Art Therapy Credentials Board.

The number of SAIC graduates who are credentialed with the Art Therapy Credentials Board for the past 9 years. 
*The ATR-P is an optional credential for graduates to hold before obtaining the ATR.

Teacher Preparation Program Report: 2023 Title II Report Card 
Types of Graduate and Professional Education in Which the Institution’s Graduates Enroll 
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