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[QUOTE=Riutet;41073110]A degree in art is pretty worthless.
The practical skills you might learn from an art course are the valuable things you take away from the course, and they can be acquired without taking a course without that much effort.
A person with a large portfolio of good quality work is worth so much more in the eyes of an employer than a guy with a small body of work and an Art degree.
You could just study something else while committing yourself to art in your free time and come away with two valuable sets of abilities, but a degree for the field where a degree actually matters.[/QUOTE]
This is true but it points to what I mentioned above - you can't get an "art degree" and expect to just get a job somewhere. Art degrees more than any other degree out there are excellent tools to helping you figure out and take care of your own future, rather than a free pass like most people assume college degrees should be (they are not).
They also teach you valuable life lessons that can help in any career (or just life in general) you might decide to do, and principles of Art and Design are extremely important in any field that involves creative work (entertainment, graphic design, etc). Even if you are humble and want to just be a traditional artist, the internet gives you tons of opportunities to work independently, as a freelancer, on contract, etc. Its probably not going to be enough to get a big salary, but honestly if I was an artist I'd be perfectly fine making decent money on the side via my commissions while also working part time somewhere.
Sure you don't want to get a BFA if you're planning on immediately jumping into employment, if you don't treat your degree as simply a tool to use to get where you want, or if you plan on making as much money as possible. But that's not really the goal of education for a lot of people, and it really shouldn't be the only goal (but it kind of is, at the moment).
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