Mobility / Exchange Students

MOBILITY

The Mobility / Exchange Program provides Otis students the opportunity to study for one semester at another art college. The program offers personal enrichment through study in a new context, new environment and with different faculty. Students may attend colleges that participate through AICAD (Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design) mobility program in the United States and Canada or selected colleges abroad through one of our Exchange partners.

It is very important to discuss your interest in participating in the Mobility / Exchange program with your Studio Department advisor first as transferable creditsvary by department. For more information about Mobility Exchange program please see the Mobility / Exchange coordinator in the Registration Office.

PARTICIPATING COLLEGES
AICAD Colleges by State
California College of the Arts Oakland, California Laguna College of Art and Design Laguna Beach, California San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, California Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Old Lyme, Connecticut Ringling College of Art and Design Sarasota, Florida School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois Maine College of Art Portland, Maine Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, Maryland Art Institute of Boston Boston, Massachusetts Massachusetts College of Art and Design Boston, Massachusetts	Montserrat College of Art Beverly, Massachusetts School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts College for Creative Studies Detroit, Michigan Minneapolis College of Art and Design Minneapolis, Minnesota Kansas City Institute of Art Kansas City, Missouri Cooper Union New York, New York Art Academy of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland, Ohio Columbus College of Art and Design Columbus, Ohio	Oregon College of Art and Craft Portland, Oregon Pacific Northwest College of Art Portland, Oregon Moore College of Art and Design Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University of the Arts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rhode Island School of Design Providence, Rhode Island Memphis College of Art Memphis, Tennessee Corcoran College of Art and Design Washington, District of Columbia Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Milwaukee, Wisconsin
AICAD Schools by Country
Alberta College of Art Design Cagary, Alberta, Canada Emily Carr University of Art and Design Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada	NSCAD University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Ontario College of Art and Design Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Non-AICAD Colleges
Ecole Nationale Superieuren des Beaux Arts Paris, France	William de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, Netherlands

ELIGIBILITY

The student may attend the host college during the junior year of study, only.
The student must have a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or better at Otis College.
The courses taken at the host college must be similar in content and unit value to Otis College courses.
The academic calendar must be similar, with semester dates coinciding.
The student must be accepted by the host college.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
The applicant is responsible for completing and submitting:

Application form
Studio department chair approval
Student Accounts Office clearance
Financial Aid Office clearance
Ten to twenty slides of work (as determined by host college)
A sealed copy of the Otis transcript
A one-page statement of purpose explaining goals and purpose

The above items are to be submitted to the registrar. The registrar will contact the host college. The host college will consider the application after all of the above material has been received.