TWO CAMPUSES
San Francisco: Located in the Potrero Hill neighborhood, the San Francisco campus is home to the college's graduate programs, undergraduate programs in architecture and design, and the CCA Wattis Institute.
Oakland: The historic four-acre Oakland campus is home to the college's undergraduate programs in art. First-year studios, residence halls, and the Center for Art and Public Life are also located here.
Campuses combined, CCA currently enrolls approximately 1,860 full-time students.
To better understand how CCA's two campuses work to unite a single community, see Two-Campus College for more details.
ACCREDITATION & DEGREES
CCA is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), and Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA).
CCA grants the following degrees:
- bachelor of architecture (BArch)
- bachelor of arts (BA)
- bachelor of fine arts (BFA)
- master of architecture (MArch)
- master of arts (MA)
- master of business administration (MBA)
- master of fine arts (MFA)
- minor in Visual Studies
- minor in Writing and Literature
ALUMNI
Among the college's noted alumni:
- painters Nathan Oliveira and Raymond Saunders
- ceramicists Robert Arneson, Viola Frey, and Peter Voulkos
- filmmaker Wayne Wang
- conceptual artists David Ireland and Dennis Oppenheim
- designers Lucille Tenazas and Michael Vanderbyl
CCA'S MISSION
CCA educates students to shape culture through the practice and critical study of the arts. The college prepares its students for lifelong creative work and service to their communities through a curriculum in fine art, architecture, design, and writing.
