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The action-oriented

art, design, and architecture

school in San Francisco

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#1 art school in the nation ROI #1 best undergraduate art school by salary potential 83% of all students receive scholarships 100% of faculty are active practitioners 7:1 student to faculty ratio

California College of the Arts cultivates ideas, industry, and impact in the progressive San Francisco Bay Area, educating our students as global changemakers through purposeful practice and critical discourse.

Explore a lineup of free public events happening on campus this month.

California College of the Arts cultivates ideas, industry, and impact in the progressive San Francisco Bay Area, educating our students as global changemakers through purposeful practice and critical discourse.

Explore a lineup of free public events happening on campus this month.

Experience

All are welcome at CCA, where diverse cultures, practices, and ideas merge.

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Tour Campus
A crowd of people at CCA's end-of-year Design and Architecture Show.

Public Programming
Maker Simpson Family Building lit up in the evening.

Futures of CCA

Connect

Our creative community makes a living by changing the world.

Honey Mehta candidly working on a computer.

Meet Honey Mehta (MDes Interaction Design 2023)

CCA did not feel like a school. It felt like an incubator for real-world impact and real-world projects.

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Purposeful practices

A project for the The 2024 Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival by Martin Francis Hitch.

MArch Architecture 2023

Martin Francis Hitch

Architectural rendering showing three views of the fashion house

BFA Interior Design 2025

Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku

Colorful illustration of layers of people interacting with each other.

BFA Illustration 2018

Asia Kang

Portrait of Ajuan Mance against a pop art background.

Faculty

Ajuan Mance

TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER ASIA’S OLDEST BIENNIAL BLINDFOLDED WHEEL THROWING AGING AGAINST THE MACHINE JAPANESE AESTHETICS STACKED SKINCARE KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE HUBS ARE HUMANS THE ONLY DREAMERS ON EARTH?
KNITTED FILM SCENES DIGITAL SUBMARINE HABITATS THE FUTURE IS HERE ALGAE MASK HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY NON-HIERARCHICAL DIALOGUE ANIMAL DREAMS FIRE ROAD MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY INDIGENOUS ECOLOGICAL PRACTICES
IMPROVE YOUR ART STAMINA GREEN TOYS LIMESTONE SINKHOLES CARDBOARD JETPACK CALL THIS # NOW RADICAL ARCHITECTURE JAPAN&SEOUL&MEXICO&ICELAND&LONDON&PARIS MAIDU GOVERNANCE SLOW BEETHOVEN

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Come learn to make work that makes a difference.

May 01

Deadline to confirm attendance and submit enrollment deposit

Admitted undergraduate students should confirm attendance and submit the $300 enrollment deposit for the fall semester by this date.

May 01

Graduate deadline to confirm attendance and submit deposit

Admitted graduate students must confirm attendance and submit the $500 enrollment deposit for the fall semester by this date.

Sep 01

Undergraduate application available

Apply for admission to CCA for spring 2026 or fall 2026 terms.

Sep 01

Graduate application available

Apply for admission to CCA for fall 2026.

Oct 01

Undergraduate spring priority deadline for first-year and transfer students

Deadline for first-year and transfer applicants to submit applications for spring semester to guarantee consideration for institutional scholarships.

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