QUARTER AWAY - Art Direction

BASE SCHOOLS
Enroll at any one of Miami Ad School's Base Schools: Miami, Minneapolis, Hamburg, Madrid, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Berlin, Istanbul, New York*, Mexico City, Sydney or Buenos Aires.  In each city, your instructors will be working industry professionals who will teach you what you need to know to be successful in the business today.  Check the website for instructors and descriptions of the  courses you'll take.

You'll stay at your Base School for your first year (quarters 1-4) of school. You can take your entire two year program at your Base School or choose the option of spending a second year (quarters 5-8) doing internships in our Quarter Away program*¹.
Base Schools, in addition to being the places to get the fundamentals down, also make wonderful Quarter Away locations.  Absorb a different culture and change your perspective while taking classes from professionals in a new city.  It can be a great choice for your first Q.A. experience.

GREENHOUSE INTERNSHIPS
After spending the first year at a Base School, the Quarter Away program allows students to study and intern in up to four more cities: Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Boulder, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago, Dallas, Dubai, Hamburg, London, Miami, Minneapolis, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm and Sydney are just some of the possible choices.

You can apply for a Greenhouse Internship during 5th-8th quarters. In a Greenhouse Internship, an ad agency gives dedicated space where up to a dozen Miami Ad School students can spend each day of the quarter working on their assignments.
Your instructors are creative directors, art directors, copywriters, account planners, photographers and designers from that agency and other agencies in the city. Who better to learn from than the industry's leading professionals?

In addition to working on your class projects, and focusing on creative pieces for your portfolio, you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the agency's client projects and new business pitches. You'll see how an agency functions on a day-to-day basis because you'll be working in the middle of it.

What is in it for the agency, you ask?  They get a continually renewed source of fresh thinking. They also get the first glimpse of the next generation of creative talent. Miami Ad School has Greenhouse Internship partnerships with agencies in many cities.

AGENCY INTERNSHIPS
In your 6th through 8th quarters, you can apply for agency internships.  Miami Ad School has internships for our students in over a dozen cities around the world.  There are over 250 internship slots a year to choose from.  And these aren't coffee-fetching internships.  You'll work alongside agency creatives, many times on the same assignments.  Interning students have created and sold TV commercials, print ads, websites and radio spots.  Some graduates won their first professional awards for work they did as interns.  Not too shabby, eh?

*Please Note: New York base students do one quarter away in their 8th quarter within New York in either an Agency Internship or Greenhouse Internship.

¹ International students within the United States can intern with any agency outside of the United States as well as go to Greenhouses and Base Schools in Miami, New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco and any outside of the United States. Due to visa regulations, International students are not eligible to intern within the US.