Emily Carr University of Art + Design

The 2024 masters thesis exhibition and the capture photography show were both so breathtaking!! The campus is also just really nice in general.

This school was my dream school, but the administration and advising office made it the worst, most miserable, experience of my life. I ended up dropping all my classes out of frustration dealing with the office staff. I won’t get in to detail about it.nnI see either two situations here:n1 The office staff are incompetent and have no clue how to do their jobs. Every time I talked to someone they omitted certain information that would have helped me make better decisions. Every person I talked to always had no information and always said different things from another person.nn2 There must be pressure from upper management coming down on everyone working at this school. These are the vibes that I got at this school. For example we were constantly told we had to use sign in sheets for the main reason that upper management wouldn’t steal the space from the program. I feel this is the same with the employees and their hands were tied fearing for their jobs to give me the information I needed.nnI see it as #2 in my case because I don’t believe so many people to be incompetent. I feel bad for the employees working in such a toxic work environment and I hope my review doesn’t rustle many feathers.nnI will say, it took months for people to try to help me. But as soon as I signed the form to drop out, they had it done in a day. Felt like a criminal with how that whole situation was dealt with.nnAs someone who paid a hefty price, monetary and mentally, to go there, I feel like I have an obligation to tell people to run away as fast as they can if they’re considering this school.nnIf you do decide to go to this school, I hope you never have any issues that you need to talk to anyone in the office.nnIt’s given me the confidence to know I can compete with other artists to even get accepted in to a school like this.nnI know they won’t be getting another cent from me.

The school is beautiful, the inside is beautiful, the teachers are great but the food is a bit pricey

Emily Carr is has so many advantages that you just can’t find in other schools. They have a career counselling service, career fairs, and an awesome co-op program. And the Canada 150 Scholarship is just the cherry on top.nnIt’s definitely considered one of the great options out there for artistic and creative education.

As a professor teaching for the last 15+ years having visited many universities in my time, I have never been as inspired as I was visiting Emily Carr this week. Loved every corner and all the attention to detail. Well done ECU.