You’re the creative one. We get you.

Come to Columbia College Chicago

You’ve got big, weird, bright ideas, and we’ve got the tools to make them a reality.

Find your creative crowd at Columbia College Chicago, where we welcome talented and passionate students ready to challenge each other, push boundaries, and shape what’s next. Study with faculty members who live what they teach. Pursue your passion while gaining the business skills you need to launch a creative career. And do it all in beautiful downtown Chicago, a world-class city brimming with art, culture, and activism.

Find your fit.

Explore our 100+ programs in visual arts, performing arts, media and digital arts, music and sound, business and management, and communication and writing.

Downtown Chicago is your campus. (Like, right downtown.)

You’ll study, work, and play in a city full of cultural happenings and professional opportunities. Our well-connected faculty members and internship coordinators will help you build a body of work, make industry connections, and find internships and jobs.

Columbia alumni find success in every industry.

The proof is in the numbers: Our alums have won 6 Oscars, 2 Grammys, 2 Tonys, 2 Pulitzers, 21 Emmys, and counting. They kick ass and take names in film, TV, video games, advertising, journalism, music, theatre, dance, and everything in between.

We don’t have to brag...

... because other people do that for us. In 2017, Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, and The Wrap named us a top film school. The Hollywood Reporter rated us the No. 6 music school in the country. We’re also among the top 20 animation schools in the country, according to Animation Career Review.